The project involves the renovation of an apartment in the Positano building, designed by architect Luis García Pardo and a benchmark of modern architectural heritage in Uruguay, located in the Pocitos neighborhood at the intersection of L. Ponce Avenue and Bulevar Artigas. The building rises above the ground in a volume parallel to the Boulevard, representing the utopia of the new modern city envisioned in the 1950s.

It is important to highlight the hybridization between structure and spatial conception in the building. It relies on a structural scheme that frees the floor plan from load-bearing points along its edges and interior, resulting in a sequence of cantilevered beams that discharge onto shear wall pillars housed in the core, functioning as rigid plates. This system is visible on its side facade along Charrúa Street. On the ground floor, these central pillars are reduced to four discharge points, resulting in a continuous, open ground floor.

In the 1952 project, García Pardo played with a completely free floor plan, into which he later inserted the various rooms separated by partitions. In the final design, the bathroom and service partitions took on a structural function, while the entire perimeter of the building, now a perfect prism, was set free.

The intervention seeks to reformulate the continuous space and construct a new narrative suited to contemporary living. The kitchen is removed and its terrace extended, achieving an exterior module and restoring the rear facade of the building, as the opening had been closed by previous alterations. The staff bedroom and the adjacent fourth main bedroom are dismantled to accommodate an island set at 15 degrees, which aims to bypass the grid and build a new spatial fiction.

Of the three remaining bedroom modules—one to the east, one to the west, and one to the south—the latter is redesigned as a walk-in closet with the addition of a triangular wardrobe angled at 60 degrees. Clad in mirrors, it alters the geometry and dismantles the binary division of space through the reflection of sunlight.

The renovation copes with the technical deficiencies typical of this modern architecture, such as iron radiant floor heating embedded in lime subfloors, electrical installations with cloth-wrapped copper wiring, and the routing of plumbing sleeves.