Cozy Beach Cabin Remodel
Few programs are as unique as vacation homes. Logically, a house has its essential areas, but in the houses for leisure and pleasure there are other permits. The kitchens can be protagonists in proportion to the rest of the environments, if you enjoy the cuisine. The bathrooms can signify privacy and have windows that look out onto the landscape, and even the meeting and semi-covered spaces, such as the galleries, can have more hierarchy than the bedrooms. The spatialities are different and a new relationship between the environments is established because normally, its inhabitants think about their houses according to what they enjoy doing in their free time, or even what they would do in it in their golden years.
The weekend, summer or holiday homes - on the beach, in the countryside between the mountains - are the place where you fantasize about the future, projects are born and you imagine a new life. This means that in addition to originals they have to work well, so that whoever inhabits them can carry on their real life and also fantasy. They have to want to stay, be easy to maintain and safe.
How does architecture respond to the need for leisure time? What criteria are used to design this type of housing? The team of architects proposes that "these projects allow innovation, because a person on vacation can be considered a different way of life",
The project is a remodeling of a cabin of tight dimensions facing the beach (720 square feet according to county records). built in 1912, it was redefined taking advantage of the intervention the thermal insulation of its walls and the updating of the water and electricity piping systems, allowing us
rethink the spatial typology and the order of the platan between the public and private areas and the servant and served spaces.
The core of the project was to give a variety of ideas for the floor below and propose access to the upper floor in a comfortable and very efficient way (currently only an attic, but with the hope of remodeling in the future and adding an additional space to live).
The footprint of the house can not be changed, which is why the main objective is to maximize the potential of this small space, we prefer to stay inside a palette in light colors. colors of the beach and the forest, modern country house, natural tones, providing a cozy and relaxing atmosphere.
We propose to replace the front room to give place and privileged view to the beach to the public aeras of the house, located in these first two axes, the living room and the kitchen in an open concept space, with a kitchen with island that serves as an epa to eat in company and feel the spaciousness of space, this in turn is related to a studio and TV room in what occupied the second room previously, maintaining the fluidity of space and allowing you to receive visitors and host them in the sofa.
We modernize and update the design of the bathroom highlighting a large bathtub surrounded by beautiful glass mosaics in green tones and sober blanclas sanitary pieces that dialogue between the modern and the classic field spirit, the room now occupies the place that once had the kitchen, a space more calm and comfortable for rest.
As an aspiration that must be submitted to the approval of the county we propose a second stage of extension of the cabin that by strengthening the structure of the mezzanine and the modification of the current roof will allow us to obtain a new master bedroom in this level, with exclusive bathroom , equipped with two sinks separated from the bath and toilet, a walking closet and additional storage space. The new roof would only be half the size of the current floor area of the cabin since the other half is proposed as an open area for a deck terrace that allows to leave the bedroom outdoors and make the most of the views of the seascape.
the cabin allowing an integrated area to the exterior and the beautiful landscape.
All this within a proposal of interior design in modern furniture but with a classic spirit, which gives us that atmosphere of relaxation and relaxation facing the sea.
