Flexible Home

This project is centred on the reformation of a 70 square metre flat with a standard layout, found in an isolated building of eighteen flats in a peripheral neighbourhood of the town of Abrera.

The project’s objective is to convert this flat into a modern home, conceived as a single space that might be transformed in function of necessity or time of day.

The home to be redone has a fragmentary, chaotic layout, with defined spaces cutting up larger areas, each with very specific uses contributing to a lack of flexibility.

In the reform project the goal is to centralize all uses and services by the placement of a large, central, non-concentric furniture piece with organic forms, in counter-placement to the orthogonal perimeter of the container.

The space established by this central furnishing thus becomes a large flexible room, thanks to the overlaying of uses. In this way it is possible to draw out its maximum potential in spite of the flat’s smaller size.

This major furniture piece is conceived as a large all-encompassing egg, given that it can be folded out and transformed, containing a kitchen, bathroom, the dining room, the bedrooms and other forms of storage.

So as to improve the storage space of the central furnishing, a closet is set out longitudinally along one of the dividing walls of the flat.