Mira House / Arturo Sanz

We refurbished this traditional house in order to improve the functional conditions and to modify the spaces, this way providing better flow, but at the same time, we didn’t want to forget to anchor or connect the intervention to the memory of the place. To achieve this, we had to rescue a large part of the pre-existing elements: the façade, recovering the original arches in the gaps, the interior masonry wall with brick arches, the interior doors, the hydraulic tiles used for the floors were relocated to form carpet-like patterns, the dividing walls of masonry on the patio, the carved ashlars found in the excavation were reused to form a water path.

Mira House / Arturo Sanz
© Mariela Apollonio © Mariela Apollonio
  • architects: Arturo Sanz
  • Location: Carrer de la Mare de Déu dels Desemparats, 46020 València, Valencia, Spain
  • Project Year: 2019
  • Photographs: Mariela Apollonio
  • Area: 173.0 m2

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