APTO RENGIFO
Just over a year ago, I designed this apartment for a close family of friends. After many years working abroad, they returned with the desire to finally create a place they could truly call home. They entrusted me with the task of shaping this space into a home for themselves and their two teenagers, while accommodating work-from-home needs, visits from grandparents, and many shared meals with friends and family.
From the very beginning, the kitchen became the heart of the project. We broke away from the traditional idea of a closed-off kitchen to integrate it fully into the living space, reflecting the way this family lives: gathering, sharing, and building their daily life around the act of cooking and eating together.
The result is a flexible, central space that invites circulation, interaction, and multiple uses—whether working, resting, or playing. A comfortable and versatile kitchen that anchors family and social life, embodying one of the core principles of my practice: designing spaces that foster exchange, connection, and balance between the individual and the collective.
This is the kind of project that, as an architect, feels truly meaningful—not because of its scale or complexity, but because of the extraordinary satisfaction of witnessing the family inhabit the space, making it their own, and allowing architecture to become part of their daily life.
118 m² – Neuilly-sur-Seine
Architecture: Khristian Ceballos Ugarte
Collaboration:
Amaya Loncaric Pérez
@mikalitre
Construction: the fantastic team of
@nocturne_paris
Photos : Saul Yuncoxar
@outer___vision
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