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Caja Blanca
Caja Blanca
Cuenca, Ecuador
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Other Projects by Pedro Moncayo Torres arquitectura
Caja Blanca
Cuenca, Ecuador
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2024
SIZE
0 sqft - 1000 sqft
BUDGET
$0 - 10K
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Caja Blanca is a 46-square-metre interior intervention within a residential unit in a multifamily building located in the Historic Centre of Cuenca, Ecuador. The project begins by acknowledging an existing spatial condition: a compact unit originally defined with clarity in its scale and overall organization.
The intervention does not seek to correct or replace that previous condition, but to work from it. Its aim is to adapt the unit to a new user through a precise interior operation, capable of activating new domestic relationships without altering the general logic of the space.
The project focuses on the kitchen core. By repositioning and reorienting it, the intervention reorganizes the relationships between cooking, dining, socialising, storage, circulation and everyday living within a reduced floor area. The kitchen is no longer understood only as a service area, but as the relational centre of the domestic system.
The strategy is developed through the idea of a micro-intervention: a specific architectural action, limited in material scope, yet capable of producing amplified effects on the way an existing unit is inhabited. In this case, the project benefits from the clarity of the original spatial layout and works with it through a series of precise interior decisions, incorporating fixed furniture, integrated storage and lightweight metal elements.
A restrained material palette reinforces this clarity: continuous white surfaces, exposed concrete, cement-finish flooring and black metal elements create a calm, precise and contained atmosphere. The fixed furniture, developed with BETA estudio, operates as an extension of the interior architecture, defining edges, integrating storage and articulating lighting, support and everyday use.
Caja Blanca explores how a minimal architectural action can adapt a compact residential unit to new ways of living, without denying the spatial structure from which it begins.
The intervention does not seek to correct or replace that previous condition, but to work from it. Its aim is to adapt the unit to a new user through a precise interior operation, capable of activating new domestic relationships without altering the general logic of the space.
The project focuses on the kitchen core. By repositioning and reorienting it, the intervention reorganizes the relationships between cooking, dining, socialising, storage, circulation and everyday living within a reduced floor area. The kitchen is no longer understood only as a service area, but as the relational centre of the domestic system.
The strategy is developed through the idea of a micro-intervention: a specific architectural action, limited in material scope, yet capable of producing amplified effects on the way an existing unit is inhabited. In this case, the project benefits from the clarity of the original spatial layout and works with it through a series of precise interior decisions, incorporating fixed furniture, integrated storage and lightweight metal elements.
A restrained material palette reinforces this clarity: continuous white surfaces, exposed concrete, cement-finish flooring and black metal elements create a calm, precise and contained atmosphere. The fixed furniture, developed with BETA estudio, operates as an extension of the interior architecture, defining edges, integrating storage and articulating lighting, support and everyday use.
Caja Blanca explores how a minimal architectural action can adapt a compact residential unit to new ways of living, without denying the spatial structure from which it begins.
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