Designed by: @pensi.pascual

Captured by: @simoneemarcolin

The project renovates a traditional terraced house in the centre of Poboleda, in the Priorat region, transforming its upper floor into a guest house independent from the three floors below. Access through the large central staircase and existing lightwell is reconfigured to bring more natural light into the building and reinforce its vertical continuity. New doors, joinery and flooring are introduced into a structure shaped by successive transformations, adding another layer to the house while allowing its façade to reveal its changing character over time.

On the upper floor, a partial opening of the roof transforms part of the interior into a terrace overlooking the landscape, becoming the main gesture around which the project is organised. Existing elements such as vaults, capitals, walls and openings are preserved as traces of the building’s previous stages. Their presence defines the perimeter and creates material continuity between the different temporal layers of the house, rather than replacing them with a unified new language.

The plan is organised through a flooring geometry that responds to the existing columns, retaining walls and façade, as well as to the directions and alignments of the plots forming Poboleda’s historic centre. Intersections between parallel and perpendicular lines generate trapezoidal concrete pieces that define two areas of timber flooring inside and two ceramic surfaces outside. At the centre, the fireplace becomes more than a functional or decorative element, acting as a point around which different ways of inhabiting the house are organised.

The floor geometry extends the relationship between the interior and the terrace, while changes in material accompany the gradual transition towards the landscape. Benches, furniture and shelving complete the space with a limited number of elements, leaving room for everyday uses to transform it over time. The intervention works with what the house already contains, allowing accumulated textures, finishes, irregularities and materials to coexist with the new additions. Rather than unifying its different layers, the project brings them into dialogue within a shared space.