Iterare Arquitectos has used traditional construction techniques and local materials to update a 100-year-old home in Valencia with a minimalist interior.
House of Giants is located in Valencia's El Cabañal neighbourhood, which was historically populated by fishermen.
The three-storey home, which belongs to a local artist and engraver, has been designed by Iterare Arquitectos to blend in with its historical surrounds.

Its reworked interior is now decked out with materials that are typically found in buildings in the local area ? this includes limestone sourced from a local quarry and timber reclaimed from the home itself.
Limestone in particular features heavily throughout and has been used to clad the staircase, floors, bathrooms and the first-floor terrace.
According to the practice, construction techniques used throughout the project are typical of the Mediterranean basin, but have been reinterpreted to create a minimalist, clean-lined look.
"The heritage of the construction and the neighbourhood held a really heavy weight, so we felt leaving materials from the past would create a unique dialogue with the new construction," said Rubén Gutiérrez Rodríguez, director of the practice.
"In the end, we believe listening to the building and good practices of the past is not against contemporary thinking; we should be able to keep a conversation with the past without renouncing our contemporary language and new sensibility."

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