Urban Cabinets Series (1) / Beatriz Arroyo + Lys Villalba

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    Photographs:José Hevia
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Huguet, In-Out, Nouvelle Cuisine, Persiana Barcelona
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Urban Cabinets Series (1) / Beatriz Arroyo + Lys Villalba - Interior Photography
© José Hevia
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Site plan
Urban Cabinets Series (1) / Beatriz Arroyo + Lys Villalba - Interior Photography, Kitchen, Table, Countertop, Chair, Windows
© José Hevia

Urban Cabinets is a series of housing rehabilitation projects that explore design strategies around the concept of furniture architecture. In each of them, a family of furniture-that-turns-into-spaces configures domesticities halfway between these two scales. The furniture grows, becomes XXL, and is thought architecturally. It values ​​handmade and custom-made materials, artisanally made in small companies, and in whose final execution, different construction trades from both areas will enter into dialogue on-site.

Urban Cabinets Series (1) / Beatriz Arroyo + Lys Villalba - Interior Photography, Table, Countertop
© José Hevia
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The first project in the series addresses the renovation of a 1950s home in the Salamanca neighborhood of Madrid. The original home, which divided the public space of the house into different rooms - entrance hall, living room, study, kitchen, hallway - hindered cross ventilation, the enjoyment of southern light in winter, and access to the terrace. The renovation proposes to unify this domestic environment - cleaning and leaving its structure exposed; recovering the original terrace - and articulate it through a series of furniture architectures that equip the space inhabited by this family.

Urban Cabinets Series (1) / Beatriz Arroyo + Lys Villalba - Interior Photography, Table
© José Hevia
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Urban Cabinets Series (1) / Beatriz Arroyo + Lys Villalba - Interior Photography, Lighting
© José Hevia

Eating, conversing, studying, playing, painting, cooking, reading, working... In Urban Cabinet Series (1) everything takes place around a table. And it is the design of this table - placed transversely in the space, in an undefined place between programs - that reconfigures the domesticities of the house. Handcrafted in colored terrazzo sprinkled with small confetti-like pieces, the 3.5m long and 1.05m wide tabletop rests on a structure of three pairs of metal cylinders anchored to the floor, thus freeing up all the space around it.

Urban Cabinets Series (1) / Beatriz Arroyo + Lys Villalba - Interior Photography, Windows
© José Hevia
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© José Hevia

On one side of it, the kitchen, whose shorter front becomes the second piece of this family of small furniture architectures: a reversible cabinet, with a countertop on one side and a coat rack on the other, perforated by an oculus from which to look out upon arriving home.

Urban Cabinets Series (1) / Beatriz Arroyo + Lys Villalba - Interior Photography, Shelving, Windows
© José Hevia

On the other side, is the living office, where a second table organizes a collective study space. Two lateral supports made of folded steel sheets and a standardized maximum length wooden board (366 cm) blend without screws or joints, configuring free work support for the whole family.

Urban Cabinets Series (1) / Beatriz Arroyo + Lys Villalba - Interior Photography, Closet, Shelving
© José Hevia

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Address:Salamanca, Madrid, Spain

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Cite: "Urban Cabinets Series (1) / Beatriz Arroyo + Lys Villalba" [Rehabilitación Urban Cabinets Series (1) / Beatriz Arroyo + Lys Villalba] 04 Dec 2023. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1010605/urban-cabinets-series-1-beatriz-arroyo-plus-lys-villalba> ISSN 0719-8884

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