HDJ
HDJ is a rehabilitation project of a house from 1932, located in the neighborhood of La Petxina in Valencia. The intervention aims to preserve the essence of the place - the high ceilings, the wooden slabs, the hydraulic pavements and the interior carpentry - to enrich it with a contemporary look, which favored the connection of spaces, flexibility and natural light as the backbone.
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The action activates two strategies to rethink the distribution of housing: on the one hand, it eliminates the rigid compartmentalization of traditional spaces to achieve a large and versatile space, capable of hosting both domestic uses and situations of meeting and celebration. On the other hand, the fluid concatenation between the rooms is maintained, which enhances the diversity of routes and relationships between the spaces, while favoring cross ventilation throughout the house.
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The kitchen and dining room become the central space of domestic and social life, a continuous space where natural light from the window runs through the entire depth of the house. The storage layout allows the privacy of private rooms to be preserved, while maintaining the visual and spatial connection.
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The project recovers and reuses original elements to reinforce the character of the house and connect it with its heritage, while introducing new materials and textures in a contemporary key. The green color, the sand color and the oak wood establish a dialogue with the existing hydraulic pavements, configuring a warm and current atmosphere.
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Natural light becomes the protagonist, present in every corner and acting as the guiding thread of transformation. The result is a home with its own identity, which connects past and present, memory and contemporaneity.
