POSITANO
A renovation of an apartment in the Positano building, designed by architect Luis García Pardo and a landmark of modern architecture in Uruguay. The original project, representative of modern ideas from the 1950s, was designed as an East–West volume that responds to major circulation flows, while exploring the possibilities of reinforced concrete to free the floor plan from walls and create open and flexible spaces.
A project realized with HMOZ:
Team: Paco Hernández, Alejandro Varela
Marina Cabrera, Nicolás Bosco.
Photos: Marcos Giuponi
The intervention aims to redefine the continuous space and create a new narrative for contemporary living. The kitchen is removed and its terrace extended, generating an outdoor module and restoring the building’s rear façade, previously closed off by earlier alterations. The former service bedroom—an indicator of a different social structure—and the adjacent main bedroom are dismantled to house an island set at a 15-degree angle, disrupting the grid and producing a new spatial narrative. In this configuration, the kitchen and services are not concealed but become an active part of daily life.
The renovation addresses the technical shortcomings of this modern architecture, such as iron radiant slabs in lime subfloors, electrical installations with copper and fabric-covered wiring, and the layout of sanitary connections.
Of the three remaining modules for bedrooms—one to the east, one to the west, and one to the south—the latter is redefined as a dressing room through the inclusion of a triangular wardrobe set at a 60-degree angle. Clad in mirrors, it distorts the geometry and, with the play of sunlight, dismantles the binary division of the space.
