Detached house in Sant Quirze

Jordi and Raquel got in touch, because YES 😊, but NO 🙁 — you know what I mean. The thing is, renovating or building your home should be done with the next 20 or 25 years of your life in mind. One loose end joins the next, and the next, and the next, until a moment comes when your own intuition, the one that marks your path, tells you to stop. And they stopped — well, they stopped and got in touch with us.

They were building the house of their dreams, but inside them grew the conviction that something wasn't working. And it wasn't working because it can't work; not unless some "pests" like us stop to analyse your daily RITUALS; to learn how you live, how you cook, what kind of shopping you do, what your work or your weekend is like. In short, letting us into your life as far as you'll let us in, observing closely and sensing, so that the design of your house becomes an extension of your life.

With the functionality of the house resolved in the first stage of the project, where we put our energy into solving things "you don't see" but feel day to day, we set to work on the style. The project drew on nature, on the infinite palette of textures and colours that organic matter offers and which, at the same time, makes no show of ostentation.

A central skylight, crossing both floors, defines the luminous character of the home. Placing long willow branches in the skylight gives the view a wild character from any point in the house. And from there, everything flows and everything connects…

Marbling, metallics, woods or the refined commodore green in the kitchen, the integration of linear lighting as an object of desire in the home. Overall, we're looking at a home with a broad chromatic palette of materials and colours that relate to one another comfortably. All of it over a neutral base that lets the play of textures emerge and enhances the materials.