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Entwurf • Design Mario Montesinos Marco, ES-Valencia
„Das Raumschiff hatte
seine irreparablen Spuren
hinterlassen. Küche
und Bad wurden völlig
zerstört. Viele Wände
der Wohnung stürzten
ein, öffneten den Raum
und erhellten ihn. Die
Wände wiesen jetzt
unregelmäßige Risse und
ungewöhnliche Muster
auf, als wären sie mit
einem Laser geschnitten.”
Mario Montesinos Marco
Grundriss • Floor plan
Bauherr • Client Carlos Sáez Ripoll, ES-Valencia
Standort • Location ES-Valencia
Nutzfläche • Floor space 175 m 2
Fotos • Photos Luís Beltrán, ES-Valencia
Mehr Infos auf Seite • More info on page 126
APARTMENT
IN VALENCIA
This Valencia flat does not look like the prototype of a
perfectly renovated, up-to-date old flat. Mario Monte-
sinos Marco has created a disconcerting interior that is
partly technoid and undercooled, partly temporary and
makeshift but highly individual. The architect from Valen-
cia has a story to tell, which explains how his design, a
“posthuman accident in a neoclassical flat”, came about.
Y ou could almost call him the enfant terrible of interior design.
Almost ... because Mario Montesinos Marco only does what he –
or his private building clients – like. After all, one’s own four walls are
the last terrain in which individual preferences, lifestyles and matters
of taste can legitimately unfold, completely regardless of public opini-
on and mutual consideration. Montesinos Marco has already proven
that he is a designer beyond the mainstream with his Vi&Mela flat in
Bologna, published in AIT 7/8.2023. In Valencia, he has now staged a
“pruned” retreat in a neoclassical residential building that you would
never expect to find behind this façade. What the architect found on
the 175-square-metre level of the old building, which is four times
as long as it is wide, was typical of the time: high ceilings, decorati-
ve stucco elements such as ornately decorated mouldings, coffered
doors, high windows overlooking an interior courtyard filled with tro-
pical plants, but also progressive pixel-like mosaic floors. Montesinos
Marco is a storyteller. And his (design) story is that nothing less than
a UFO crashed into the old building and created a new interior that
merges time and space in the damaged neoclassical substance using
a self-controlled AI. In fact, Montesinos Marco pragmatically removed
partition walls, allowing light and air into the interior of the flat. Par-
tition walls and sliding doors made of glass and stainless steel – relics
of the UFO – as well as plastic curtains zone the floor plan, while visib-
le “scars” show where the “amputated” partition walls once were.
Wiring laid on plaster and cable routes suspended from the ceiling
reveal what is usually hidden, not so according to the industrial style
designed here, however. Laser-cut elements epitomize his penchant
for CI-controlled techniques and 3D-printed furniture. The extractor
hood in the kitchen that has been stripped of its panelling, the vandal-
proof stainless-steel washbasin in the bathroom that has been remo-
ved from its public context, planters in the shape of DIY store Euro-
boxes, steel-blue tiles and fluorescent tubes convey the disconcerting
feeling that the alien has actually landed ...
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