Gloria House
The room, as the minimum typological unit of architecture, is the starting point for this project. An investigation into the possibilities that spatial systems have in the dissolution of domestic conventions. The room not as an autonomous space, but the result of a process of subdivision and individualization that organizes domestic life.
The original space is subdivided into 23 rectangular rooms, of similar size, articulated together by central openings, thus creating a spatial isotropy of concatenated rooms. Each space is not defined by a specific use or function, but by its cognitive characteristics: its lighting, darkness, orientation, spatial dimensions are the only conditions that delimit the possibilities of occupation.
The project consists of four homes located in a building from the seventies in the center of the city of Murcia. Faced with the rapid real estate speculation suffered in the Spanish Levante in recent years, the project moves away from connotations derived from market-driven logics and proposes a flexible system, capable of evading pre-fixed and conventional conditions. The project is understood as a spatial system indifferent of the context in which it is located. A system that is conceptually generic as well as spatially specific, which rejects any relationship to the perimeter, the program and the orientation of space.
The materials are simple and direct: mirrored surfaces dilute the limits of the project and promise a spatial imaginary that goes beyond its physical perimeter, while continuous epoxy resin floors eliminate any sense of scale. The plastic enamel ceiling amplify the brightness and colors while the galvanized steel and local granite cooking space provides a point of reference in each home.
