Casa Bove is a home with a unique identity, which preserves and values tradition in dialogue with contemporaneity.
2023
Casa Bove is a design home, located in the heart of Valencia, in La Roqueta neighborhood, which preserves the most characteristic and iconic construction details of the 20th century residential architecture.
The project goal was to create a unique environment that responded to current needs while respecting the most valuable original elements, such as the vaulted ceilings of ceramic brick and wooden beams or its mosaic floors.
To achieve its strong personality, each new element is worked through formal simplicity for giving coherence to the entire project.
Nolla floors are a type of flooring based on small, high-performance ceramic pieces that were produced in Spain during the 19th and 20th centuries. Miquel Nolla introduced this English ceramic product in Spain in the mid-19th century, which consists of small geometric stoneware tiles, intended to create complex mosaic compositions.
Unlike other types of mosaics, Nolla mosaic uses pieces that do not require cuts for placement, using the simplest geometric shapes. In this home, there is a different drawing in each room, but the colors used are repeated.
Due to the strong presence of color in these construction elements, flooring is preserved as handmade rugs, freeing them from any partition and allowing them to be one of the leading and protagonist elements of the house.
The common and original typology of these homes in the city center was to locate the night area (rooms) on the street side, to open the day area to the inner courtyard of the block, much quieter and more intimate. In the new distribution, this typology is modified, to guarantee life focused on the outside.
