Ciscar Apartment

An apartment renovation in the historic Eixample district of Valencia, on the chamfered corner of a block built in the early twentieth century. The original plan placed the bedrooms on the principal facade and the living room facing the courtyard. The project inverts this: an open living area sits beside the entry, and the bedrooms move to the rear, lit and ventilated through the interior courtyard. Walls, ceilings and joinery are white. The floor is natural oak. A single chromatic shift, a green bathroom, registers an ongoing studio inquiry into the relationship between space and material.

A chamfered plan, inverted.

The apartment occupies a chamfered corner of an early twentieth-century block in Valencia’s Eixample district, one of the most distinctive periods of the city’s residential architecture. The original distribution placed the bedrooms on the principal facade and the living room facing the interior courtyard of the block. The renovation inverts the relationship: the living area is now open and adjacent to the entry, and the bedrooms have moved to the rear, ventilated and lit through the courtyard. The complex geometry of the corner remains intact. The plan reads it differently.

Fewer elements, longer sight lines.

The new distribution works toward visual continuity. Rooms are organized with the smallest possible number of elements so that sight lines extend across the whole depth of the apartment. A continuous line of light running through the hallway accentuates this reading, marking the principal axis without interrupting it. The intention is not to dissolve the rooms but to release the visual relationship between them, recovering the spatial generosity that the original compartmentalized plan obscured.

White, oak, one chromatic shift.

The atmosphere is reduced to a small number of decisions held consistently. Walls, ceilings and fixed joinery are white. Floors are natural oak, warm under artificial light. The material palette is calibrated to make the apartment a place of rest and quiet, with no surface drawing attention to itself. The single exception is the main bathroom, finished in green. The shift is not decorative. It marks a deliberate inquiry, ongoing in the studio at the time, into the relationship between space, material and chromatic register.