Casa (DOS) is a contemporary apartment located in Cartagena, Spain, redesigned in 2021 by Estudio Brava.

Description
A surgical transformation.
Casa (Dos) is the renovation of an apartment located in the urban expansion area of Cartagena. The existing housing reflected the typologies of the 70s in which the number of rooms prevailed over their quality.
The renovation, which started from a hyper-tight budget, concentrates the investment in a central band of 45m2 that materializes in the project through a wooden floor placed flush with the existing terrazzo, a system of pivoting doors that allows reconfiguring the bedrooms and a pale pink box that solves the program of storage, kitchen, and bathroom located in the darkest area of ??the house. This band compacts the wet and storage program in the central area, freeing up spaces with natural light for the day and resting areas and reducing the square meters dedicated to circulation to a minimum.
The remaining 60m2 were conditioned smoothing the walls, repairing the existing terrazzo tiles, and adapting and reusing the heating systems. These decisions limited and control the total Budget keeping high-quality materials in the central área.
From the bashful to the public.
The bathroom has moved from having a private status to becoming a public part of the house. The pale pink box houses the wet areas of the apartment in the back. Facing the idea of ??the bathroom as an independent space, the toilet program is d...