House C By XStudio: Minimal Apartment Transformation in Las Palmas
House C by XStudio transforms a 32 m² apartment into a luminous, flexible, sea-connected interior using color, reflection, and open-plan design.
Located in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, House C is a masterful renovation by XStudio that redefines compact living with spatial continuity, light, and visual connection to the sea. This 32 m² apartment, once fragmented and irregular, is transformed into a luminous, open interior landscape that merges function, comfort, and aesthetic clarity.


The design embraces a single-room concept, preserving only the bathroom as a private, enclosed cabin to maintain intimacy while reinforcing the perception of an uninterrupted living environment. XStudio introduces two architectural devices that structure the apartment without traditional partitions, creating inhabitable infrastructures that organize daily life through form, color, and atmosphere.


The first device, aligned along the party wall, anchors essential domestic functions. It integrates a kitchen, seating bench, and bathtub, shower, designed so bathing becomes a contemplative experience overlooking the horizon. This linear backbone frames views, choreographs everyday gestures, and anchors the open interior.


The second device defines the resting and reading area as a deep green niche, providing privacy and a sense of shelter. Its volumetric thickness and color balance the openness of the surrounding space while creating an intimate domestic core. The remaining floor plan is deliberately flexible, adapting to living, resting, and reflective moments, emphasizing non-hierarchical spatial use.


Color, reflection, and landscape play pivotal roles in the design. A pale pink floor softly diffuses natural light, the deep green niche adds intimacy, and Klein blue curtains offer privacy without disrupting continuity. Mirrored surfaces multiply reflections, visually extending the interior and pulling the sea into the home. Light and horizon become active architectural elements, blurring physical limits and enhancing sensory experience.


House C exemplifies how compact apartment renovations can achieve openness, flexibility, and connection to nature. The project demonstrates XStudio’s sensitivity to light, materiality, and spatial perception, proving that even minimal spaces can be profoundly expansive in experience.

All the photographs are works of
David Rodríguez
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