House was gloomy. Now it's dream modern home that friends crash in

The home with "the circus tent roof" sat on the market for 6 years before Isabella and Diogo visited its dark maze of tiny rooms. Seeing potential in its modernist history, they bought it and began to uncover its more playful past.
Architects Pablo and Alberto Twose began to study the home's geometry and discovered beneath the slanting walls a triangular pattern that formed variations of hexagons and octagons. Using these shapes as a guide, they took down walls and doors to abolish the confusing labyrinth of rooms in favor of bright open spaces that flow together like a child's puzzle.
The Twoses called it Casa Tangram in reference to the Chinese dissection puzzle of the same name. By playing with the tangram tiles, the architects created a light-filled space without doors that resembles "a forest with clearings that invite us to stop, play, rest".
Playful elements run throughout the home, like a centrally-placed hammock as a sofa, a stealth pantry camouflaged behind cladding and a toilet room concealed behind artful tiles. For the work-from-home couple and their young daughter, it's a wonderland they rarely need to leave.
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[@stevemiller7949]

Neighborhoods are much better when they have a quirky, patchwork quality. I would love having a house like this next to mine or on my street because it is so unique. I would dye my hair bright blue but I don't have the guts. People can be mean to eccentrics. These people are charming and they appreciate their house for being bold.🙂🙂🙂🙂💯💯❤️❤️

[@SustainerNYC]

What crazy beauty and it’s thrilling that this couple saw the gem & preserved its facets!

[@goldsilverandiamonds]

Interesting home. You can really tell how much the owners love it. The home got the perfect owners. This is also a dream home for kids. So many places to hide and explore.

[@micaylabirondo836]

It was very disorienting. But I liked the airy light, the indoor/outdoor feel, the secret rooms, the clever (re)design. If I were a child, I would bring all my friends here! To play hide-n-seek and play tag all day long!

[@JazzyBabe56]

this is right up my alley - I like the unusual and different....

[@GaitaPonto]

wow...great architecture that pretty much saved this house and made it really fresh and interesting. I imagine that the value of this property raised a lot after this renovation.

[@LeaOverAtVatic]

Tangram is a refreshing change from all other homes which are all rectangles and squares. This one has a lot of personality and creativity. Being a huge nature person I also love the forest feel. 🌳💚✨

[@AnnieOaklee]

I actually love it too ❤ And the privacy

[@michaelshearer3559]

This might be my new favorite. So refreshing and beautifully well built.

[@blueman5924]

Too cool ! Love the green “tree” pillars, and the non-layout giving so many view corridors, but giving privacy. So nice they recognized the potential. Thanks for sharing. 👍🍁🤙

[@Mindmaid1]

This was a fun and interesting tour of a very unique functional, and special home.

[@cazmatazzify]

I love this. Much more interesting to live in than a box. Houses should be fun. I love the attention to detail. I would live there in a heartbeat

[@annettemills3840]

I love the house. It would be so much fun to live in.

[@kellter70]

wonderful place~~ turned from complex to simplicity. love it~ seem like a sweet family too

[@kayemoonflower]

This is phenomenal! Just so creative and unique! Beautiful! This is one of my favorites and...watching again right away :D Thank you for sharing--and what a lovely couple!

[@B30pt87]

I really liked this one.

[@owlhouse000]

Such a lovely house and a lovely family. The way they redid and decorated the house is perfect.

[@Goldie63isme]

My kind of house, I love the uniqueness of it! So cool !

[@boa1793]

More before and after pictures, please. fantastic house. You’re amazing.

[@daholyvagabond]

They are so right about quality going down. Renovating my house I find so many things wrong and I'm always left wondering how did anything pass code inspections.

[@kristinaginorio1344]

Oh my, one of the best.

[@LILRHONDALEE]

Wowsers! This home blows my mind! How fun is that! I wish I could live there! Enjoy your special magical abode! TFS! Lil hugs

[@porkrynd6]

This is Hands down the coolest house I've ever seen!

[@AngelaLRsurfinginstilettos]

The great thing about this home is how unique it is. One can do so much with it. This home has some really interesting and beautiful features. I love homes that do not look like a bunch of boxes smashed together along with poor quality work and materials, half-assed construction that will cause nothing but issues and headaches guaranteed at some point. First thing for me would be bringing in more lighting options. I would bring in materials to diffuse the echoing sounds, various beautiful plants, woods and soft colours throughout the home. If some of the areas could be opened up would be lovely as well. The roof is one of the best features. IMO. Thank you for sharing more unique homes.

[@sun1one1]

The only word for this "cool."

[@landwirtschaft2116]

I love how this house is extravagant (through its shapes and colors) and modest (because of its materials, dimensions minimalism and overall interior) both at the same time! Must be one oft he most amazing houses i've ever seen…

[@se_boogie]

Beautiful....I needed more, wanted to see the cool laundry room and more of the outside.

[@harlankraft578]

Wow impressive and y’all never even made your way to the immense outdoors spaces! Very nice! Huge but nice!

[@MBMCincy63]

Very beautiful home and love the odd shapes and flowing way it fits together! So very cool! Thank you for sharing your home!

[@cece624]

Unique! Seems like few more pocket doors would be nice.

[@johnlee7085]

All of that and you didn’t even explore outside or even the interface with the rest of the property. TBS, that’s a huge house for a small family. The antithesis of the tiny house movement. Great that they were able to find it and the architect to realize it’s potential.

[@davidsteinhour5562]

I LOVE IT!!!!!

[@skyeseaborn1170]

Such a beautiful flowing, comfortable home. They have done a great job!

[@jjayneartworkx]

It is very yin structurally with all the curves but with a nice balance of yang with all the light...seems like it would feel like a comfortable space to be in. The openness is nice with all the storage hiding stuff. ❤ i bet it has great chi energy flow because of all this.

[@TKOin2life]

I actually like it. I would just need some water features and some skylights and I would really have a forrest. I would fill it with plants in different zones by plant type. I would use paint to differentiate the zones so it doesn't feel like a puzzle on the inside.

[@reader649]

What a wonderful use of form and space! You could live there for years and still find that there are places and perspectives in your house that seem new and intriguing, like walking around garden paths that hide distant views. Love it!

[@francescaould66]

Amazing love it. A home that's a work of art.

[@witriole_22]

Yes! this is unbelievably desirable, creative living space.

[@one234569and10]

REALLY cool, I can dig it!

[@ko6el]

I wonder if the shape and lack of doors makes you focus more on why you're in that particular part of the house, especially working from home, that noise would carry from other parts🤔

[@Boxer2717]

Super cool..

[@MsSherryjh]

Interesting, they look happy . Fascinating in the ways they can change the design.

[@jamesbaconreid]

Wow this place is really special... so beautiful

[@plantsbythemoon9049]

Amazing!

[@timmillan6701]

Beautiful and exciting structure

[@kiukk9288]

que casa hermosa, bien hecho!💯

[@ivoted7199]

I am dizzy watching the camera pass through this house. Fascinating structure.

[@barbburgess6155]

Very interesting design.

[@user-lr6uf7px1t]

I love this design

[@MynameisMikeee]

That’s wild. I would need a map. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@GoingsoloinFrance]

I love daft houses :-)

[@carolewarner101]

Very unique...a work of art! But quite frankly, NOT a very practical home for the vast majority. Not sustainable to build in this way as it costs SO much more to build a house like this, both in materials for the same volume of enclosed space in a circle, square or rectangle and in heating/cooling, etc. So much more surface area for siding, SO many hips and valleys in the roof and hence far more expensive to build and to maintain/keep from leaking! The irregular sprawling nature of the house makes it much more expensive to heat and cool, etc, etc. But fascinating and beautiful not doubt!

[@Jayapullani]

Interesting, it reminds me of a small open plan primary school I worked in many years ago, the school was new at the time.

[@sgrvtl7183]

really cool house. I agree with one comment that I love neighborhoods that varied designs and not the 'cookie-cutter' tract homes!

[@budgetaudiophilelife-long5461]

🤗THANKS KIRSTEN,WE LOVE ❤️ GEOMETRIC SHAPES 😎💚💚💚

[@Grits_and_Glamour]

It’s kinda Feng Shui due to the lack of right angles

[@m1andonlytwice]

I’m curious to learn how families find these hidden gems. Are they constantly looking and exploring or are they working in the real estate industry/sector?

[@Brian-jv8iy]

just look on websites, it is also luck to be living in the area

[@iteerrex8166]

Very cool design 👍. If i were to nitpick, I would’ve liked the same complexity in the 3rd dimension as well. Right now it has two flat levels. If it had 3-4 quarter and half levels, it would’ve added so much more. But it wasn’t an option, because the building was already built.

[@Oof-DahReviews-bf4hv]

Interesting geometric shapes. Looks a bit confusing getting around. I like the kitchen island in that hexagonal shape.

[@lobstermash]

The shapes ... I have vertigo and would probably walk into the walls and furniture here - somehow the lack of predictable route lines throws me off. I sometimes wonder if this is an issue for other dizzies as it is a very common condition. I do remember an episode of the UK show "Grand Designs" where the husband had a second-storey part of the house accessed by a glass bridge over the living space. His wife had vertigo and couldn't cross the bridge. Hmmmm ..... I'm very comfortable with right angles - they let my sense of balance settle down.

[@timgillman]

I love the house now. I'm not sure I would have had the vision when it had the original configuration.400 sq mts is huge for Barcelona. I would have liked to know what it cost and then the cost for the renovation.

[@MichaelMartinussen]

Mol ve!!! Gracis :)

[@jackstrubbe7608]

This is brilliant and appeals so much to me. It's like living under a giant origami awning.

[@landwirtschaft2116]

They should get a Cybertruck… :D

[@compellingpeople]

wow! how a was the patio and pool area like in the back?

[@albertptran]

The upstairs area is chill

[@YellaBellaReno]

I would love to see a floor plan for this house. In the form of a puzzle. Lol. Seriously though, this is one of the best houses I’ve ever seen. Really, really a work of art. *EDIT:* I asked the universe, and it delivered. A floor plan. 😍

[@rio425ee]

Love the design choice to invite the opportunity to be taking a shit and have someone trying to open the identical and undifferentiated door to the pantry fling open the shitter door on you. It's a brilliant design, not a hack job at all. Lol

[@simonpannett8810]

Hard surfaces and echoing sound could do with some softer materials to absorb the sound??

[@ddmitch1]

It's a Cyberhouse! All they need now is a Cybertruck!

[@bigsarge2085]

👍👍

[@barbaramuzychka3836]

It is such a contemporary home, but they put in what looks like radiators for heating?

[@ruthjantzen5447]

How many languages do you speak, Kirsten?

[@estabi]

A 10 year-old's laser tag dream home 😆

[@CynM.]

That last girl kind of looked like Bellatrix or Helena. Cute.

[@lovelyday1965]

It's 'called' free-form.

[@keefewithanf]

They speak such good English and then they ask how to say “toilet” and I was so shocked 😂

[@marielg9143]

I have a unsettling feeling its a weird flow

[@RoseBeef.]

I feel like there has to be so much more that was left unseen. What a great house

[@boa1793]

A maze.

[@sjn0202]

The green wall in the middle must go.

[@Anomic-mo9ji]

Brazillionaires are just the coolest people!

[@shakalakadingbang756]

Feels so liminal

[@jareknowak8712]

Personally i dont like it, I couldnt live there. This house has no rooms, its just a randomly arranged labirynth of corridors. But I like the video, as always.

[@FinnRenard]

Don't know what it is with housing in Spain. Acoustics are always horrible.

[@jareknowak8712]

Ceramics and stones everywhere.

[@novampires223]

They could put rugs down to quiet the echos..

[@Roheryn100]

I didn’t like it at first,but…it seduced me.

[@dameanvil]

01:19 🏡 The house is known as the "circus house" due to its unique shape resembling a circus tent. 1:53 🏡 Catalan modernist architecture is relaxed and Mediterranean-inspired, creating a unique and effortless feel. 3:58 🏡 The decision to buy the house was based on recognizing its potential for modernization and the spacious living area. 6:33 🍴 The kitchen layout is unique, featuring hidden areas and maintaining the original flooring and tiles. 10:00 🚿 The bathroom design includes an open shower, handmade tiles, and creative use of space, maintaining privacy. 14:33 🚽 A unique toilet room adds creativity and privacy, with well-designed features and thoughtful finishes. 16:59 🛌 The bedroom layout is unconventional, resembling a maze or a forest, creating a sense of privacy and expansiveness. 18:11 🚪 Adding a door for privacy was a thoughtful decision, enhancing the overall living experience. 19:45 📚 The upstairs area, converted from a doctor's office, serves as a workspace and studio with original shelves. 22:19 🎸 The top floor has a multifunctional space for beds, guitars, and amplifiers, creating an interesting acoustic environment. 23:19 🔍 The architects designed the house with intricate geometric figures, resembling a Tangram puzzle.

[@lydiarowe491]

This house initially grab my interest until you entered the interior…

[@jareknowak8712]

Same here !!

[@missingremote4388]

Space looks normal to me

[@marthareyes4024]

I dont care for it at all. Sorry I cant imagine how much money it would take to heat or cool that place.

[@Chudesnenk0]

You know, u know, u know?) Someone counted how many times?😅

[@georgepapapostolou5992]

we just know u know!

[@briangarrow448]

English is obviously a second language for her. She speaks it much better than I do, and I’ve been speaking English since childhood.

[@lorenzosegote]

seems cold and sharp like chards of glass and lacks a sense of scale and texture. I love this channel but probably my least favorite home.

[@nicolasboullosa]

I don’t know what you’re seeing in the images, me may have used wide angle lenses a bit too much on this one, because the real experience is far from your description; it’s a Mediterranean house that gets plenty of sunlight and not “cold” but adapted to place and purpose. To each their own; I personally think the renovation is genius.

[@candyclemens4432]

English please.😮

[@againstthegraingolf301]

There were subtitles. Read please.

[@paulus.tarsensus]

This was interesting to see and a couple features were nice, but overall, this is one of the most uninspiring interiors. As for the exterior: it doesn't fit with the neighbourhood at all. It sticks out like a clown at a formal dinner party.

[@runvnc208]

The original design was quite mad, but what they did with it, without completely gutting it, was brilliant and creative. The end result is still a bit mad, but it's interesting and well thought out, within the constraints of not tearing everything down.

[@paulsuprono7225]

Great analogy ! 🤓

[@SonoraD.]

I thought it was refreshing to see a house with next to nothing on the walls and few decorations throughout the space. The minimalist approach lets the architecture, the light fixings and the tiles shine.

[@nickg2561]

Agreed. So many unnecessary walls and angles. Wastes a ton of space so much plain unused space

[@scampishfoxx3138]

Sounds like they’re try to convince themselves that they made the right decisions vicariously by seeking our approval…. U know? U know?🤔🤫🫣🤭 Me: 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@misslannie73]

I politely disagree. I believe the “you know” is more that English is not their first language. They seem like a confident, intelligent couple. U know?

[@scampishfoxx3138]

@@misslannie73 or they be native to Minnesota..U Know?

[@misslannie73]

@@scampishfoxx3138 I’m British, but I have friends in Minnesota! 😂😂

[@scampishfoxx3138]

@@misslannie73 sounds personal 🤫

[@ForestGreen88]

That wasn't my take at all. They obviously love the house and know they made the correct decisions. From my experience, all of those "you knows" are verbal shorthand for "are you understanding what I'm trying to say in your language?" I love the house and what they've done with it.