The Valencia-based architecture and interior design studio has created a groundbreaking residential project that translates the revolutionary feminist artworks of 1970s Spanish artist Ángela García Codoñer into contemporary architectural language.

Casa Gesso is conceived as a habitable blank canvas, a platform for reflection on García Codoñer’s work that highlights her artistic and feminist legacy in today’s context. This residence transcends conventional design by paying homage to the artist’s works, particularly her iconic series “Morfologías,” “Misses,” and “Labores,” which transform contemporary architectural language. Each space within the house has been designed as a spatial reinterpretation of these works, preserving the critical and social discourse that characterizes the artist’s oeuvre.

Viruta Lab has designed a space that is a faithful reflection on gender equality and feminism, where social and artistic narratives that have shaped Valencian and Spanish culture over the last five decades can be broken down and reexamined. In essence, it is a home that allows one to inhabit the ideas of Ángela García Codoñer and demonstrates that residential spaces can also be conceived for reflection and questioning of established norms.

Project: Viruta Lab
Photography: David Zarzoso
Fosca stool and REM bench by Blasco&Vila.