Two raised, symmetrical and curved bathrooms,bursting with colour, mark the transition from public to private spaces.
FAD Interior Design Award 2024
From an old apartment with a traditional layout to a spacious and bright new home with an optimum useof space. This project by Studio Animal for a 95m2 home near the Retiro Park in Madrid was to transforma highly compartmentalised space with small rooms, narrow hallways, small bathrooms and a kitchenisolated from the rest of the home and connected via a service area.
The starting point of the renovation was to devise a new organisation for the space, achieving a feeling of“open space” while also separating public areas from private areas.
A large multifunctional room in white was created to include the kitchen, living and dining room and areading area. This allowed for cross ventilation and the optimum use of natural light from the façade andinterior patio of the building.
The neutral colour of this public or social area contrasts with the vivid explosion of colour in the privatespace, consisting of two symmetrical bedrooms accessed through a dream-like cloud which include the wetareas.Studio Animal slightly raised the height of the bedrooms and their respective bathrooms to free up thediaphanous and open space.
Tow large doors with a minimalist style in white give way to two twin bathrooms, one in orange and theother in pink. In this way one passes through a large “cloud” to cross from the public to the private space.“You wake up in the privacy of your room, you go through the cloud to wash and prepare yourself for theday and go out into public life”. To enter the bathrooms there are two curved steps in the same colour.
The pink bathroom give access to the green bedroom and the orange bathroom leads to the blue bedroom.An explosion of colour and creativity.The two bathrooms are entirely surfaced in Hisbalit mosaic tile, as if with a single skin. The references were Unicolor 255 for pink and Unicolor 304 for orange.
Colour and geometry
Despite the curves and geometry f the space, the entire bathroom was surfaced in the same square mosaictile 2.3×2.3cm format, from the Unicolor collection. The size of Hisbalit tesserae allows them to adaptperfectly to any type of surface, flat or curved: floors, walls, shower, bathroom fixtures, doors, steps.
The mosaic tiles are installed on the curved walls using preformed meshes of 33x33cm.On the floor, the curves are aligned to meet the walls in concentric circles
Project: Studio Animal
Photos: José Hevia