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Casa Cruce Breve: Short cross-hall between two bedrooms and a kitchen bay

Short cross-hall between two bedrooms and a kitchen bay. A layout study from ResPlan 2131.

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Published view of ResPlan 2131. Geometry, furniture and finishes belong to an approximate reconstruction; this is not a photograph of a home.

Casa Cruce Breve is the editorial name for this two-bedroom layout study based on ResPlan 2131. The public tour offers a way to inspect room connections and boundaries; the name does not identify a built residence or commissioned renovation.

Reading the Casa Cruce Breve layout

A short hall joins two stacked bedrooms to the living area along the opposite side. The kitchen occupies a deep bay above the living room, with one bathroom beside it and another in a narrow lower bay.

The public model reports an approximate overall envelope of 11.653 × 7.696 m, with a modeled height of 3 m. These figures describe the reconstruction, not usable floor area, individual room dimensions or a verified building survey.

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Rotate the Casa Cruce Breve study to inspect the connections described here. Compare the plan shape before checking thresholds, keeping the uncertainties noted in this story visible.

How the room routes connect

The short cross-hall is Casa Cruce Breve’s hinge. Bedroom access reaches the living side through this connector, while kitchen movement originates in a deep bay. A furniture arrangement should respect the meeting of those paths instead of assuming the entire living-room edge is available. The narrow lower bathroom bay introduces another destination that can change the apparent simplicity of the crossing.

A furniture decision to compare

Treat the kitchen’s depth and the hall’s length as different questions. A deep kitchen may hold a longer working sequence, yet its opening still concentrates traffic at one point. For the living room, favor an arrangement that makes the cross-hall exit obvious. Do not turn the lower narrow bay into general storage merely because its contents are visually modest.

Review exercise: Casa Cruce Breve

Follow the kitchen-to-upper-bedroom trip, pause where it crosses the hall, and reverse it. Then repeat toward the lower bedroom and lower bathroom bay. Mark the common crossing on a plan image. Test a hypothetical chair at that spot against one placed beyond it; compare the route change rather than judging the chair from the overview alone.

Source and scope of this study

Source: The ResPlan Authors, ResPlan plan 2131. Original ResPlan collection, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Lodnor reconstructed the plan in 3D. The editorial project name and furniture proposals in this article do not attribute new design intentions to the source authors.

The public release credits furniture by Eric Chadwick, ©2021 Wayfair, LLC, CC BY 4.0, modified for presentation. Full furniture and material credits are embedded in the GLB. Furniture sizes and finishes are illustrative; check real dimensions before purchasing.

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