When your grownup kids have their very own kids, it might grow to be more and more tough, between a number of work, faculty, and extracurricular schedules, to assemble the entire household beneath one roof. A method for grandparents to encourage extra visits: set up a trip dwelling luxurious sufficient to woo the grownups and spacious sufficient to accommodate the grandkids. This was the impetus behind Casa Guzman, a challenge by Madrid-based structure studio Plantea Estudio.

The agency was employed by a pair who needed to overtake their second dwelling in Santoña, a small fishing city on the north coast of Spain, in order that they might comfortably host their prolonged household. (They’re descendants of the unique homeowners.) The outside of the historic home couldn’t be touched due to native preservation guidelines, however the inside was honest recreation. After gutting and rebuilding the insides, what was as soon as a warren of small rooms has been remodeled into a primary flooring that’s open, ethereal, and optimized for congregation and dialog, and a second flooring of bedrooms that may accommodate as much as 12 folks.

Whereas the shoppers had been supportive of the choice to knock down partitions and do no matter was essential to push the household dwelling into the twenty first century, they, like their architect, Carla Morán, had been eager “to take action with out dropping its character, its essence…[and while keeping] alive the reminiscence of the grandparents and the time spent in childhood.”

Pictures by Germán Saiz, courtesy of Plantea Estudio.

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