Renovation of an apartment in Villa Devoto, Buenos Aires, that had a tiny powder room and a very small kitchen: the powder room was enlarged into a second bathroom and a balcony was enclosed and merged into the kitchen. Five milestones of the work.
In this Villa Devoto apartment I carried out, as the architect, an intervention in the bathroom and the kitchen. The apartment had a powder room and a very small kitchen.
The intervention consisted of enlarging the powder room to the size of a second bathroom for the family, and enclosing a balcony to merge it into the kitchen, with a complete renewal of the services in the area, the floors, the wall finishes and the fittings.
The photos are in chronological order according to the date recorded inside each image, not the file name. The milestones overlap because several tasks ran in parallel. Each one opens a gallery with all of its photos. Faces of workers in the photos have been blurred.
The wall finishes and partitions in the kitchen and powder-room area were demolished and the rubble was carried out in bags. The photos show walls chipped back to the brick and an opening in a wall.
With the walls open, the services in the area were redone: water pipes and drains, with their floor drain, and chased-in electrical wiring.
The glass-block panel that lights the enlarged powder room, set in the opening cut into the wall, and the first courses of the white subway tile in the kitchen.
The wood-look planks of the kitchen floor, cut to size on site and laid over the subfloor.
The result: the kitchen with white cabinets, a granite countertop, white subway tile and a wood-look floor, and the powder room enlarged into a second bathroom, with the glass block framed by a patterned ceramic border, a vanity with a vessel sink and a lit oval mirror.
Conceptual diagrams of plumbing and electrical services and an integrated axonometric, drawn in Revit years after the work over a plan reconstructed from a partial CAD file; the assumptions are marked on the sheets. They are not the design the work was built from and they are not an executive design: calculations and verification belong to licensed specialists.
How I approach existing buildings is described in BIM for Renovation and Existing Conditions / Scan-to-BIM.
Sheets labeled in Spanish.
Photos are from the project archive and the finished apartment. On the choice to keep what is built rather than demolish, see sustainable architecture and reuse.
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