This project consists in the conversion of an 1880’s apartment into two lofts, located in the Sant Antoni district of Barcelona. A new housing scenery is created by a succession of rooms that connect the street to the courtyard through a system of sliding doors and porticos, reminiscent of the Japanese traditional house.
The original dwelling was totally compartmentalized by corridors and rooms barely connected to each other and to the outside. The first intention was to open up the space and recuperating the original high ceilings by demolishing the existent partition walls, floor and ceilings, increasing the incidence of natural lighting and promoting ventilation.
La Borda housing cooperative is a development self-organized by its users to access decent, non-speculative housing that places its use value in the center, through a collective structure. The idea of a housing cooperative was born in 2012 as a project of Can Batlló driven by the community in the process of recovery of the industrial premises, and the neighborhood and cooperative fabric of the Sants neighborhood of Barcelona.
The project is located on a public land of social housing, with a leasehold of 75 years. Located in Constitució Street, in a bordering position of the industrial area of Can Batlló with a facade to the existing neighborhood of La Bordeta.
Large windows and rounded corners that connect the interior with the outside, overflowing pool that joins the sea and light colors that illuminate all the corners of the house.
The house is characterized by the white color of the lime of the facades, the robust wooden beams inside, the rounded corners of all the walls and the overwhelming luminosity that floods each and every one of the rooms.
Article source: Ramón Esteve Estudio de Arquitectura, S.L.P
La Roca House is located north of Barcelona, just half an hour from the city. The plot is on a hillside facing the sea, with the type of lush landscape found in Mediterranean forest dominated by grand pine trees, holm oaks and cork oaks.
The design for the house is born of the highest respect for its natural environment. The complex terrain has a main role in the creation and placing of the house. The house looks massive and heavy because of its connection with the ground it emerges from: a large base made of local stone merges with the mountain and becomes one with it. This plinth is topped by brown concrete platforms that protect and extend the interior outwards while pointing at the different sights from the site.
Our idea of mobility is changing. The dream of vehicle ownership has turned into a desire for shared mobility concepts, shifting the car industry’s focus from product to user, driver to passenger, travel to journey, experience to exploration. Quoting Audi, moving means meeting change. It questions the familiar, embraces the unknown until it outstrips the power of our imagination. If mobility is a constant encounter with everything that is new, how can its physical space act in the same way?
What do we require from a space when we come into work? What makes for the right atmosphere to work in, and how can we project company values and philosophy onto a spatial design? What will work look like in the near future, now that Millennials are increasingly entering the labour market? What will they want? What do we want? When thinking about the design of our own office, we wanted it to reflect our team and daily activities.
After the Interior Design Guidelines for fashion designer Javier Simorra, the brand opened a store on the famous Passeig de Gracia in celebration of its 40th birthday. Located right in front of Casa Mila, one of the emblematic modernist buildings by the hand of Antoni Gaudí, a new element came into play, turning the design of the venue into a symbolic answer to its surroundings.
L'Atelier opened its doors this past April with the objective of surprising the city of Barcelona, and it has certainly delivered. The IDEO Architectura studio was commissioned to create this concept and make it into a reality. L'Atelier – now a true jewellery case – is a space where pastry, school and bakery coexist at 140 bis Calle Viladomat.
“We are looking for a groundbreaking, unique and avant-garde space”. Using his premise from Pastor, IDEO Architectura had to transform a raw area of 500 m2 in the Eixample of Barcelona into a new space destined to become a leading reference point in the bakery sector. For Virgina del Barco, the space’s architect and designer, the mission was “to generate an architectural universe that responds with clarity to the objectives set by L'Atelier, the name with which both pastry chefs present themselves to the world.”
The project, designed by JIGA architecture Studio, consists of the integral rehabilitation of a detached house located in a quiet street of isolated houses in the Ametlla del Vallès, a town in the province of Barcelona known for its summer homes.
The commission is made by a couple who intend to adapt the house to their lifestyle and at the same time commit to a climate strategy of renewable energy and low consumption. The initial premises consisted on maintaining the exterior structure of the house, making a single bedroom and having the garage / workshop not disconnected from the rest of the house.
The refurbishment of a “Loft not Loft” in Parlament Street in Barcelona, or how to fill a white canvas with “movables” (furniture) of sinuous shapes that define living spaces.
Difficulty and Virtue
The Xurigué building was drawn and built in 1868 by the master builder Pau Martorell in the heart of Sant Antoni neighborhood. It was one of the first illegal constructions in Cerdà’s Eixample and it was located just outside the walls of what had been the Gate of Sant Antoni and where 10 years later the current market would appear. This is one of those Barcelona buildings born between eras. In an Eixample that still had not defined its specific “Eixample Typology”, the Xurigué building is part of the tradition exported from Ciutat Vella neighborhood, where masters used to build in narrow bays.
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