LOGROÑO CIRCULAR CITY
Urbanism
CASA CRUDA
Rereading a Neighborhood House
Project
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Project
Casa Cruda repairs a 1960s neighborhood home through a minimal and precise intervention. The project reflects on the legacy of traditional and anonymous typologies and their relationship with contemporary architecture. Rather than transforming, it purifies and reactivates what already exists, turning built memory into the driving force of the project.
Far from a conventional renovation, Casa Cruda preserves both the previous marks and the scars that emerged during the process, accepting them as part of the material narrative of the house. Through targeted gestures, the spatial quality is enhanced: height and volume are gained, natural light is amplified, and a single open, free, and flexible space is created.
In Casa Cruda, two levels are clearly distinguished: a renovated base —floors and wall coverings— and an upper part that remains bare, authentic, untouched. Thus, within a single continuous space, the new and the existing coexist, the technical and the artisanal, the repaired and the preserved; a synthesis between past and present that allows one to inhabit time in all its layers.
Data
Location: Cartagena
Client: private
Scale: S
Type: house
Status: completed
Credits
Arquitects: meii
Team: Elvira Carrión, Jose Mª Mateo, Javier Albacete, Andrea Sanabria, Juan Antonio Abril
Photography: Hiperfocal
Art: SomosFino, Catalina Catarsis, Casilda Matrán, Ángeles Agrela, Pepo Devesa, Kave, Warrenetlaetitia, Flos
