Laura Ortín Arquitectura

Mo House In Murcia

Mo House In Murcia
© David Frutos

MO HOUSE

Laura Ortín Arquitectura

ARCHITECTS
Laura Ortín Arquitectura

PHOTOGRAPHS
David Frutos

AREA
1399 ft²

MANUFACTURERS
Autodesk, Jung, Arkoslight, Kerakoll, Auténtico, Adobe Systems Incorporated, Cerámica Cielo, Cement Design, Icónico, Porcelanosa, Robert Mcneel & Associates, Moso-bamboo

YEAR
2021

LOCATION
Murcia, Spain

CATEGORY
Apartments, Renovation, Apartment Interiors

The project was conceived just when our bodies and after a few days our minds were confined. Could this new household up another confinement?

Mo House In Murcia
© David Frutos
Mo House In Murcia
© David Frutos

We wonder. This will be perhaps from now on the new question to project.

Because if architecture is good because it is flexible, bright, and healthy, it will endure confinement and any future situation. Because it will be adaptive, evolutionary, and caring.

Mo House In Murcia
© David Frutos
Mo House In Murcia
© David Frutos

We encounter an 80s flat in the center of the city. Extremely compartmentalized and organized with hierarchical spaces typical of another era, of another way of living.

Natural light was paralyzed too soon, circulations forced too unnatural movements and the different rooms were for only one activity.

Mo House In Murcia
© David Frutos
Mo House In Murcia
© David Frutos

Mens sana in habitat sano. Three things were the obsession to solve: outdoor space (more terrace), the flexibility of use (interchangeable rooms), self-care spaces (teleworking, relaxation), and environmental quality (natural light more hours, healthy materials).

We force conflict (understood as something positive), we provoke our own exoticism and evocative architecture that would forget the continent and recreate a careful and delicate content.

Mo House In Murcia
© David Frutos
Mo House In Murcia
© David Frutos

The house is traversed in an organic and natural way and the transitions between rooms are proportional.

We got a healthy environment with natural materials: bamboo wood, lime paints and chalk lacquers. They make up a home with an "sssh" effect, in calm, in peace ...

Mo House In Murcia
© David Frutos
Mo House In Murcia
© David Frutos


Mo House In Murcia
© David Frutos
Mo House In Murcia
© David Frutos
Mo House In Murcia
© David Frutos
Mo House In Murcia
© David Frutos
Mo House In Murcia
© David Frutos


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Laura Ortín Arquitectura
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Laura Ortín Arquitectura
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