yinjispace

INTERIOR
De la Villa Studio
PHOTOGRAPHY
Miriam Ruano
EDITOR
Gina
Collection

The dwelling is a top-floor penthouse of 88 m² plus terrace, set on an irregular floor plan with few structural constraints. The intervention transforms this broken geometry into a legible sequence through a single organising element: a joinery piece that structures the home beyond conventional partition.

The programme is divided into two zones. The social area is conceived as the first encounter with the space — the living room opens onto the terrace as a perceptual extension, alongside the dining area and kitchen. The private zone is located at the rear, with a guest bedroom and, at the end of the sequence, the main bedroom with a dressing room along the access corridor, both connected by a hallway.

The joinery — resolved in vertical-grain oak with a warm tone — is not used merely as cladding, but as a system: it defines planes, absorbs storage units, integrates flush doors and creates thresholds. This continuity allows the irregular floor plan to be unified and technical elements (services, storage, fittings) to be concentrated within precise, controlled components.

The living room opens onto the terrace through a generously proportioned opening that reinforces the idea of the exterior as a complementary room. The terrace is configured as a bright, uncluttered plane, with a linear planter that introduces vegetation as a backdrop for the interior. This backdrop is resolved with a neutral image — pale walls and a continuous floor finish — that enhances the inside–outside relationship and returns depth to the views from the living room.

The kitchen is conceived as a room in its own right: a more orthogonal space, accessed through an oblique passage that maintains the geometry of the plan. The worktop area runs along the perimeter, finished in natural travertine stone, with a composed and sober arrangement of fronts in which equipment and storage are integrated to keep the plane clean. The project insists on the idea of concealment: flush doors and continuous wood graining allow services and secondary functions to be absorbed into the joinery system.

In the night-time zone, the approach to the main bedroom is treated as a filtered sequence. One first enters the hallway — defined as a plane characterised by the joinery — then moves through the dressing room, and after the break in the plan, arrives at the bathroom and finally the main bedroom. This arrangement controls the direct sightline into the bedroom from the circulation route, reinforcing privacy without the need for additional partition walls. The thresholds appear as precise cuts within a mass of timber, making the act of moving through the space an experience of compression and opening.

The bathrooms follow the same logic: bespoke joinery pieces and natural stone surfaces. The washbasin in the main bathroom is resolved as a travertine stone block, with a vertical composition accentuated by the mirror, reinforcing the contrast between warm material (timber) and mineral material (stone worktop and basin).

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