LYS HOUSE

This small single-family home is located on a 50 m² plot in the center of Malaga. It can be interpreted as a radical update of the construction logic of the primitive hut, understood not as a formal archetype, but as an essential attitude towards living: building only what is necessary.
As in a hut, the house dispenses with all superfluous gestures. The effort is concentrated on organizing the interior space, generating a sequence of voids and transparencies. These decisions follow the logic of the essential, forced by very limited spatial resources. The use of natural light is one of the clearest parallels with the hut: light enters in a controlled, filtered, and deep manner, becoming the main architectural material. The skylight and the white surfaces of the interior distribute the light without resorting to artifice, establishing a direct relationship between the course of the days, the passing of the seasons, and the living space.

The project creates a deliberate visual silence. The different shades of white, the absence of ornamentation, and the continuity of materials generate an atmosphere of contemplation that evokes spaces of subsistence where excess is incompatible with everyday life. This silence is not poverty, but serenity: an architecture that relies on proportion, light, and emptiness to construct a refuge of calm and tranquility.
In this sense, Casa LYS is not only a 21st-century home in a dense historical context, but also an abstract and contemporary reinterpretation of the essential cabin, where living once again becomes a conscious act of balance between matter, space, and light.