House without ornament. Private residence conversion
Loctation: Valencia (Spain)
Year: 2025- on going
Type: Private Comission
Area: 400 sqm
Team: David Úbeda Sales, Pablo Valero Escolano
Resource: The 1931 Beaux Arts ball in New York City
The project begins with a pre-existing house defined by an accumulation of gestures: fragmented pitched roofs, disordered openings and an ornamental language that progressively obscured any spatial clarity. Rather than adding a new layer, the intervention operates through removal.
The existing structure is stripped back to its essential condition. Openings are reorganised to establish a more coherent relationship between interior space, light and proportion, while the complex roofscape is reduced into a calmer and more legible geometry. Ornament is not replaced, but eliminated; the project searches for order through simplification.
The house is understood not as an object to decorate, but as a structure to clarify. Through subtraction, the intervention attempts to recover a certain sense of continuity and silence, allowing space, light and material to become the primary elements of the architecture.