CH Project Kitchen
- Project ÁBATON
- Photographs by Belén Imaz
Two exposed concrete walls organise Project CH, and one of them passes through the kitchen. It is the wall that separates it from the living room and continues outside to become the porch, with the imprint of the board formwork on view. The kitchen leans on it as on a wall that has always been there and, on the other side, reveals the timber: the house’s structural CLT, left unclad, warm to the touch and shifting in tone with the hours.
We opened it to the north. Not the usual orientation for a kitchen, but here it makes sense: on that side lies the pine grove the plot preserves, and north light is constant, without glare, the best for working at a counter at any hour. A long window above the run of cabinets cuts out the trunks; another, beside the table, frames the garden.
Colour comes from the furniture. A volume of petrol blue cabinets gathers storage and appliances and leaves the island, white, as a clear work table. Next to it, the wooden table and the yellow and green chairs make the everyday dining area the most cheerful room in the house, beneath the pendant lamps.
But what defines this kitchen is its position on the route. From here one takes part in the central courtyard: porch, living room, dining room and back outside in a sequence without doors. Whoever is cooking is not set apart. They see the children go by, hear the conversation in the living room and step out onto the porch with the dish in their hands.
In a 750 m² house that we designed so it would not feel large, the kitchen is the human scale: a table, a window, the pines.
