A House As A Canvas For Time & Life | Ep 01 OPEN PLAN | House Tour

It's one of my favorite premises, to use time in favor. When you are designing the project, think about how you want this piece to age. I'm Daniel Villanueva, one of the creative directors in the studio of Arquitectura B Taller. I think it's very important to think or ask ourselves always what the site wants, right? What is in the site and if there is nothing, what was there? Or why is there nothing? And from there, our architecture is not the piece or the object that has to be the main actor of the film, but quite the opposite. It has to be that canvas of the main thing. The vegetation in this house, for me, is the main thing in the scene. It's what brings back a kinder temperature to the habitat. It's what brings back the smell. The understanding, even of our practice as an office, that there is no interior without an exterior. It's not just the materials that make up a piece, a totality. We also love to use strategies like time, because it will intervene the life of this piece, right? And it will be the one in charge of evolving the exercise. Your illusion when you arrive is two volumes, blind, not a single window. We immerse ourselves in the space and begin to leave behind what no longer corresponds to this interior experience. The moment we open the wooden door, it's precisely the piece that begins to perforate. It's an unexpected surprise, completely unexpected. After coming from a completely blind, incomprehensible exterior, you open that door and begin to discover that there is light, that there is sight, that there is an interior-exterior relationship completely in dialogue with each other. Sometimes the exterior can come in, and sometimes the interior can come out. Every circulation, every corridor that exists inside this space, you will find a plant bouquet, which receives light in a certain way and bounces it towards the interior. Hi, I'm Sofía Barba, and I'm an interior designer at SB Taller. Interiors are based a lot on natural materials. We like to emphasize the fibers, such as bejuco, jute, wicker, cotton, ceramics, in the form of accessories. Wood also plays an important role. I think that when we use natural materials, they give a lot of warmth, serenity. They help you dress without the need to add so many accessories and noise. In the end, what we are looking for is to have a clean space, but that the same materials speak for themselves. I think this was one of the first projects where we put bejuco. We started two years ago, and it wasn't so fashionable. Now it's very popular. Before, it was very common in our grandparents' houses, and you saw it as old, but if you put it in the right context, it can change completely. And being a natural material, it gives a lot of warmth and life. So I think bejuco is an important part of this house. Before going up, the first thing we discover is a patio contained by the blind of the facade, this being a window to the sky, or an opening that opens to the sky. On the corridor, on the right side, we can find the two secondary rooms, each with its own bathroom. And one of these bathrooms, precisely, with the patio that is the finish of the vertical circulation, and through this, the atmosphere is filled with natural lighting and ventilation. The main room has a balcony. It can be open and feel like an external natural extension. It is responsible for overflowing vegetation from the upper floor down. The space of the tub and shower share a glass panel, having that flexibility or permeability of the space, of not feeling like such in an hermetic interior. The truth is that it is a pleasure to collaborate with people aligned and in tune with the ideas, to generate sensations, to generate comfort. And this happens very well when we integrate Sofia Barba and the Betayer team. And I think that between the two of us, we were able to achieve a result that is better when it is nourished from both sides. Architecture should always push the user to live this type of experience through the resources that we do have at hand, the resources that are in place, in such a way that your exercise or your practice gives rise to new life.