Stone Apartment

Limestone core with slits of light beside a timber door in the Stone Apartment

A block of limestone occupies the centre of this small home in Valencia. A core that holds the bathrooms within and organises a tight layout around it. Stone thus becomes the backdrop of the house, a constant material presence in everyday use. Despite the restraint of its means, the project does not give up precision of definition: timber, glass and stone are articulated without artifice.

Living room of the Stone Apartment with a person seated on the sofa before the stone core
  • Bathroom of the Stone Apartment with a stone basin and light entering through a slit
  • Stone wall with a vertical glass slit in the Stone Apartment
Living room of the Stone Apartment with a window and limestone wall
Detail of the limestone basin in the Stone Apartment
Plan of the Stone Apartment
Detail of the self-supporting limestone pieces of the Stone Apartment
Animation of the limestone block with slits of light in the Stone Apartment

The core that houses the bathrooms is not clad: it is formed by self-supporting 4 cm stone pieces, tongue-and-groove jointed and without partitions, so that the stone is the wall itself. Fragments of glass are inserted into thin slits cut into the stone, crossing it and refracting light towards the interior bathrooms. At nightfall, the luminous cracks return the light to the living room.

Animation of the slits of light on the stone in the Stone Apartment
Living room of the Stone Apartment with a long sofa and a wide window

(Photo)

David Zarzoso

(Press)

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