Casa Paso Ancho: Stepped two-bedroom plan with a wide kitchen-side passage

Casa Paso Ancho is the editorial name for this two-bedroom layout study based on ResPlan 9946. 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 Paso Ancho layout

The bedrooms line one side, separated by a horizontal bathroom, while the kitchen and living area occupy the other. A broad open connection links the kitchen to the living area beside a second bathroom, and the upper bedroom projects beyond the kitchen edge.

The public model reports an approximate overall envelope of 9.603 × 9.614 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.

How the room routes connect

Casa Paso Ancho makes the kitchen-to-living connection conspicuous, yet that broad opening shares its edge with a bathroom. Follow both destinations before choosing dining furniture. On the opposite side, the bathroom between bedrooms breaks what might otherwise look like a continuous private strip. Routes to the upper projecting room and lower bedroom need separate checks at their local thresholds.

A furniture decision to compare

The obvious design opportunity is keeping the broad opening useful while establishing a place to eat nearby. A table can organize the shared side if circulation passes beside it; it can also consume the opening once chairs are in use. Retain the upper-bedroom projection in comparisons, because the kitchen setback changes the wall available next to that dining proposal.

Review exercise: Casa Paso Ancho

Trace two routes from the living room: one into the kitchen and one toward the bathroom beside the open connection. Add a hypothetical dining footprint between them and pull a chair back. Compare with a table farther from the bathroom approach. Finally check that the bedroom-side routes remain visible rather than treating the broad opening as the only circulation problem.

Source and scope of this study

Source: The ResPlan Authors, ResPlan plan 9946. 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.