NON-BINARY CROSS SPACE by PACHÓN—PAREDES

NON-BINARY CROSS  is a minimal space Madrid, Spain, designed by PACHÓN—PAREDES.

The pre-existing space was a heavily compartmentalized flat from 1950s with 9 “rooms” in only 100sqm. There is a need for habitats of different natures that can, somehow, co- exist either individually or collectively in the same space, in the same body. Working, leisure-sports and domestic habitats need to transform, adapt and co-exist in a space that has to be “NON-BINARY” by force, not defined. Space has to be almost a “stage” upon which different plays and genres can take place. On the other hand, the inverse quadrants encompass the “programmed” spaces, those with a more permanent use. Furniture, objects, materials and construction details had to be non-binary as well. As it occurs in a play or a body, only the common natural elements to the "binary architectures" are evident: structure, flooring, ceilings, skin & walls, light, services, chairs, tables, windows

Photography by Luis Asin