A modular unit encompasses all the domestic functions of this Catalonian guest apartment by architecture studio Aixopluc, leaving the rest of the floor plan empty for inhabitants to use as they wish.
Aixopluc's Alfondac guest apartment is situated in the Catalonian city of Reus in the Raval de Santa Anna neighbourhood.

The 55-square-metre space takes over a former photographer's studio that's in the same building as Aixopluc's workshop. When the photographer retired, the studio sat vacant for two years with its interiors gradually deteriorating.
"We decided to repair the place hoping someone might be interested in renting it," explained the practice. "It was not clear whether it would be more successful as an apartment or an office ? so we decided to do more than both."
The practice decided to trial its modular domestic furnishing system called Homeful, which is designed to be quickly and cheaply incorporated into abandoned buildings so that they can become habitable again.
The system comprises three elements: storage cupboards, a small house-shaped volume that accommodates a bed and a series of panels ? which the practice refers to as "enclosures" ? that can be used to form walls, floors, ceilings and doors.
These can be easily assembled or dismantled by hand using standard DIY tools.

The system is ideally meant to be compactly built into the smallest corner of any given space, leaving a majority of the floorplan free for inhabitants to use...