All I Own House

The relationships we establish with the objects we own happen on a very special manner at the interior of our houses, we assume spaces we inhabit by surrounding ourselves with our belongings, thus the way in which we accumulate and display our stuff through the space ends up reflecting our personality.

The reasons leading us to accumulate objects are many, functional or not; we may acquire something because we feel they represent us or just because we think they’re pretty; we become ourselves emotional interior designers, there exists a close relationship between the way in which we arrange our house, the events that take place in it and the way in which these experiences affect us.

Each of our possessions has its own private story, a memory associated to it and, just the same way in which we grow and change, our personal belongings change, we get rid of some stuff but we resist losing much of it, we could easily picture ourselves through our possessions. All I Own House is a project that materialises the interior of a house through its inhabitant personal belongings.

Yolanda R. Pila – founder of ERREPILA (Design Studio for enterprising and courageous people) – moves to the house that formerly belonged to her grandmother, located on a small housing community in the North of Madrid. It is a single storey house, rather small, but it has an enormous garden in the backyard.

All I Own House materialises the interior of Yolanda R. Pila’s house through her personal belongings. But these objects, such as Yolanda, would never stand still, they move around with her, accompanying her way through the day; early in the morning all the books wake up and place themselves together with all the clothing stuff, bed disappears and, just as she is having a coffee, books and clothes move fast approaching the kitchen area in order to make room for shower. Around mid-morning she has an appointment with a client; all the crockery, carefully tidy, starts to put itself close to the kitchen, nearby all the cutlery and the rest of the cookware. Books are now showing off, very proud, the big round blackboard is now getting ready for the meeting…

Through a carefully made design, totally custom-made, and the combination of carpentry and the use of quite a simple industrial railing system, all the server space in the house is arranged through three wooden, suspended, mobile and transformable containers. This server space can be totally re arranged in just a few seconds, thus allowing, in a variety of combinations with served space, to adapt the whole house according to specific needs for the use of space at the time, enabling infinite homes within a house.

All I Own House, Madrid
Program: apartment
Architects: PKMN architectures
Client: Yolanda R. Pila
Structural Engineer: Mecanismo SL
Facilities Engineer: Alberto Espinosa
Builder company: Rusega SL
Carpentry: Alfredo Merino Caldas. Cantimpalos
Slide systems: Hepco
Ceramics: Mosaic del Sur
Completion: August 2014