(DiS) ordered is a house in Getxo, Bizkaia that wants to be inhabited. BEAR‘s architectural approach, concerning the redesign of the house, provides to its new inhabitants spaces for blending their previous memories and objects with their new domestic imaginaries and wills. 

Located next to the Suspension Bridge and open to the mouth of the estuary, a house crouching awaits an opportunity to free itself and get rid of a distribution that oppresses it, designed for that life, hopefully already forgotten, of serving and being served.

Its new accomplices, a young couple, want to rediscover it to enjoy it intensely, work on it, rest and above all share it.

They also have the celebrated collector virus accumulating vinyls, objects and clothes that become a material extension of their tastes, hobbies and travel company.

With this premise, the house is emptied and structured around two large shelves that fold and detach from the geometric guidelines given by the perimeter of the house, introducing a certain alteration or disorder that invites you to go through them, turn them around and delve into that world contained in them.

Inside this new pattern are hidden the bathrooms and the gym – dressing room and on the outside a ‘Strip’ of objects and music that is the continued protagonist of the house that accompanies and allows specializing the rooms, as this container is used that could otherwise be used, serve for one thing or another only conditioned by its position or size.

The kitchen stands as the other note of the house and it is not if not a translation of the cooking of its users: a chat with other friends, a day-to-day celebration that takes shape as that top of the large shelf with a large island polygonal of Brazilian granite that embraces the pillar and leans weightlessly on mirrored doors.

A kitchen to cook looking at the views, with friends and for friends.

The materials are another element that emphasizes the project, handling that careful tension between its material condition, sober, cheap or rough, and its placement, design and sophisticated detail: flooring based on Portuguese cork bands and radiata pine battens that emphasize directionality, of the ‘Strip’ or furniture based on industrialized boards with singular solutions: curved, large doors hidden in shelves, a mobile cart for the music equipment and being able to play in different areas or colors or finishes that personalize it and impregnate that air of enjoyment that finally it is what was sought.

Model

Sketches – Collages

Facts & Credits
Title (DiS) ordered – Home for a craftswoman & vinyl collector
Typology Interior, Apartment
Location Las Arenas, Getxo, Bizkaia
Area 120 m2
Status Completed, 2022
Architecture BEAR
Photography Luis Díaz Díaz
Model photographs Jorge Isla
Text by the authors

Take a look at another project by BEAR, “Frame House”, here!


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