This small project is located in a residential neighbourhood in Asunción of low density and relative tranquillity, where the owner commissioned us to renovate an old house of almost vernacular characteristics and in quite deteriorated conditions, for profitable purposes. Therefore, our efforts were focused on developing a discreet project that would find a way to recycle the house, allowing it some flexibility in the spaces while fitting into a somewhat tight budget. The initial situation presented us with an unfunctional fragmented typology of clogged and annexed spaces, a lack of ventilation and natural lighting, walls without foundations and with noticeable humidity, considerable structural fissures and other anecdotal surprises, such as the presence of a cesspit in one of the rooms.

All these factors required us to rethink a large part of the initial project during the construction process itself, as is customary ... We initially planned to minimize demolitions, adapting the new project to what already existed, incorporating a large living room - dining room, one more bedroom and a more defined service area. But while the work was being carried out, the hidden pathologies and vices of this precarious house became increasingly present, to a point where we were forced to demolish more than 70% of the construction, reusing in some cases only the foundations. All this resulted in a large pile of rubble of various materials that, quite the opposite of being considered garbage, became the protagonists of the change.