丨西班牙莱昂丨la obra

Architects:la obra

Area:100m²

Year:2025

Photographs:Elena Almagro

Lead Architect:Clara Dios

Category:Renovation,House Interiors

City:León

Country:Spain

Text description provided by the architects. The old Villa Terraza, named by its first inhabitant with a small sign at the entrance, already contained the essence of the project: a house defined by light and the desire to transform an apartment into a bright refuge. This original intuition guided the project from the beginning. The home opens to all orientations, allowing the sun to organize the rhythms of daily life.

Bringing a project of this sensitivity to a province is a celebration: careful architecture can also be born and flourish in environments where time expands. Here, the house becomes a stage for leisurely rituals and a form of simple hedonism that breathes calm—reading, sunbathing, walking barefoot—transforming into an exercise of quiet pleasure as requested by the owner. We then imagined a house almost monastic in its material purity, where each piece emerged from the architecture itself. This vision translates into an island of steel shaped in a single piece, wardrobes that arise from the wall, terrazzo sinks, handmade ceramic pieces, and a continuous microcement floor. Manual and local materials elevate the humble and dignify the existing.

Shelves, ledges, headboards, and a sculpted bathtub as a small domestic topography follow the same modular logic. The ceramic pieces—both traditional and contemporary—share dimensions and allow for cladding, stepping, and continuity of walls and floors. Here, the furniture is not added: it is integrated and constructs the space.

The original layout, with atypical paths and bathrooms in the corners, became a perfect canvas for a space that flows without rigidity. A large pivoting door made of steel and glass acts as a movable partition, adapting the home to every possible life. The connection to the terrace amplifies the feeling of expansion and retreat. Villa T does not aim to dazzle: it accompanies. It evokes emotion from stillness and demonstrates that true luxury is to do more—and live better—with what already exists.

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