Article source: Piano Piano Studio

There is a custom in many villages of building a house thinking of the future of the family, as a “perfectible” construction, in which parents or grandparents leave a structural skeleton, an enclosure, hoping that their children or grandchildren will inhabit it in the future according to their needs. This is how we found this house on the second floor of a building in “Plaça Major” (main square) of Betxí, that had never been inhabited before.

When entering for the first time, we were surprised by its proportions, since it was very long, 25 m, with respect to the width, just 7 m. The fact of being a diaphanous and naked space at that moment made that feeling increase.

Image Courtesy © Milena Villalba

• Architects: Piano Piano Studio
• Project: De la Plaça al Palau
• Location: Betxí, Spain
• Photography: Milena Villalba

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