Several years ago Kirsten Dirksen’s family embarked on a project where they found a derelict (and affordable) country home located in a tiny, well-maintained castle hamlet 1 hour outside Barcelona, Spain. They began renovation with the help of a young architecture studio.
Can a home remodel celebrate the layers of past, present, and future? Do homes know how to grow old in good shape? Without knowing it, they began an enriching conversation about the layers of a timeless building that projects into the future.
The bottom floor’s bareness was respected; the first floor gathers all the house’s living services; whereas the second floor opens to the natural surroundings. There’s a gradient between the 3 floors of the house, bottom to top: from more primitive to more sophisticated, from less intervention to more intervention, from colder materials to warmer elements, from more protection/seclusion to the display of the Mediterranean, unspoiled surroundings.
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