Resa San Mamés student accommodation by Masquespacio

WORDS Cheri Morris IMAGES Masquespacio

Resa San Mamés student accommodation by Valencia-based creative studio Masquespacio features playful colour-blocked interiors that encourage creativity by allowing students to determine how spaces are used.

Created with university students in my mind, the brief sought a space that centres sharing experiences as a community. Located in Bilbao, Spain the 1850 sqm building comprises studios for 351 residents and areas for studying, socialising, meeting and dining.

All spaces – including the kitchen, dining room, study rooms, leisure rooms, gym and terrace – feature free-flowing, open-plan design dressed in an enlivening harmony of greens, pinks, yellows, lavenders and soothing blues. Reconfigurable furnishings afford residents the opportunity to make spaces work for them.

Acoustic glass walls in study areas afford silence, but can also be opened up to connect with an adjacent lounge. Yellow-accented wooden furniture on wheels, in the lavender-splashed kitchen, encourages reorganisation. Blue-painted bricks add texture to formal study spaces where red velvet curtains on circular tracks, around group study tables, allow for additional privacy.

The green dining space juxtaposed by millennial pink seating features oversized steps that make for an amphitheatre-like  arrangement, ideal for gatherings. Outside, the terrace features a continuation of the colour-blocks theme by placing green picnic tables within a green-zoned area and allowing different shades of blue to signal other areas of seating.

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h/t: dezeen.com