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La Primavera Reform

 

Architects: Juan Tohme

This renovation project in Cumbayá redefines interior organization by replacing conventional partitions with a system of technified furniture elements. Rather than relying on walls to structure space, the project uses built-in furniture as spatial supports that integrate storage, services, and programmatic definition.

These elements operate as inhabitable devices: bookshelves, cabinets, and functional volumes articulate the interior while maintaining openness and visual continuity. This strategy allows the space to remain fluid, adaptable, and free of rigid enclosures, reinforcing a sense of spatial depth.

The entire layout is oriented toward a large sliding glass façade that fully opens to the garden. When opened, the boundary between interior and exterior disappears, transforming the living space into a continuous domestic landscape. Furniture and architecture work together to frame views, guide movement, and extend daily life toward the outdoors.

Material choices are restrained and deliberate. Neutral surfaces, warm tones, and precise detailing emphasize clarity and calm, allowing light, vegetation, and spatial continuity to become the primary architectural protagonists.

This renovation proposes an alternative domestic logic: an architecture defined not by walls, but by systems—where furniture becomes structure, space remains open, and the exterior is fully integrated into everyday living.

Project Type

Reform

 

Date

2014

 

Location

Cumbayá, Ecuador

Images

Juan Tohme

ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE

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