La Errería * Architecture Office

Casa Rico&Ana

Casa Rico&Ana
© Luis Diaz Diaz

CASA RICO&ANA

La Errería * architecture office

PHOTOS
Luis Diaz Diaz (12)

AREA
0 sqft - 1000 sqft

YEAR
2018

LOCATION
Monòver, Spain

TYPE
Residential › Private House

After many years of large interventions, the time for 'minor-surgery' constructions has arrived. If the new demands of society do not require major interventions anymore, architects should not fill our cities with lavish buildings.

Casa Rico&Ana
© Luis Diaz Diaz
Casa Rico&Ana
© Luis Diaz Diaz

This new "small" architecture works like a precise scalpel: repairing the damage and regenerating the fabrics of our cities and homes in an adequate and meticulous way.

The renovation for Rico&Ana's house was an example of this. This unfinished "lavish building" - or finished in parts - requires an effective architectural exercise to acommodate the building to the needs of our clients.

Casa Rico&Ana
© Luis Diaz Diaz
Casa Rico&Ana
© Luis Diaz Diaz

This project starts from Brazil, as a curious commission. Our clients wanted to reform a house for their stays in Spain.

In addition, the tight economic budget forces us to multiply, even more, our skills and to optimize the resources.

Casa Rico&Ana
© Luis Diaz Diaz
Casa Rico&Ana
© Luis Diaz Diaz

The first Skype meetings were a trustworthy exercise. The trust, we promise, was returned.

So, this small-scale operation acts mainly on the existing, understanding that not everything must be destroyed and, subsequently, regretted.

Casa Rico&Ana
© Luis Diaz Diaz
Casa Rico&Ana
© Luis Diaz Diaz

We worked on the real, recognizing in the house certain values that could be a pleasant starting point.
One of these key points is the central space, around the fireplace.

A premise was the construction of a space around the fire. Thus, we proposed them to turn their house into a dance around the fire.

A circumpolar tour, a dance within the house.

Casa Rico&Ana
© Luis Diaz Diaz
Casa Rico&Ana
© Luis Diaz Diaz
Casa Rico&Ana
© Luis Diaz Diaz

As if it were not enough, in the middle of the construction work, the clients told us that they had planned to move to Spain definitely (with a third baby on the way!).

We did not want to be the protagonists of this project, we know that the memory of our work here will be fleeting, but if our intervention serves to make a part of their lives a bit happier, our effort will not be for nothing.

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