Susanna Cots designs an apartment inspired by a luxurious suite beside the sea
Can you imagine living in a hotel site suite beside the sea? If you had a full view of the sea while having breakfast, taking a shower, cooking or relaxing on the sofa… How would you define luxury?
LoCa Studio is locate in a fantastic space in one of the Barcelona centers, next to Plaza de España. The office is in an industrial warehouse that served the first Feria de Barcelona (Barcelona Fair), build for the International Exhibition of 1929.
The old industrial warehouse was shifted later to storages and today has become a complex of galleries and studios focus on art and design. One of this spaces is occupied by LoCa Studio, a little industrial building of 9m height with two mezzanine floors on the extremes that left free the middle and higher space.
The commission arrived in 2016 and ended in 2018, involving the full renovation of five spaces in the Temple of the Sagrada Familia.
In the access level of the basilica, two cloisters (Montserrat and Mercè), located on the Birth and Passion façades respectively, have been completely renovated. In the building’s basement a new shop and museum have been built as well as new public bathrooms. In total the renovated area is 1,032 m².
It is worth noting the importance, thoroughness and care given by COMA Arquitectura studio to the intervention in this gigantic building which is an icon of world architecture.
This reform was commissioned by a young Brazilian with a happy soul.
The character of the space is fresh and jovial, it was achieved thanks to the use of bright colors in singular applications and to the fluid disposition of the spaces.
We are commissioned to refurbish an apartment in the Eixample district of Barcelona. It is set within the chamfered façade of the block with fantastic views of Passeig Sant Joan, enjoying great visual depth to this avenue.
This new housing building is located in a singular site near Collserola, where the small scall of the domestic nearby buildings is mixed with equipments of bigger entity, combining low urban density with exceptional views and orientation. In this sense, the proposal looks for an adequate implantation to the surroundings, trying to complement the domesticity of the residential single-family fabric with the bigger dimension and scale of other pieces nearby.
Article source: CaSA – Colombo and Serboli Architecture and Margherita Serboli Arquitectura
The apartment is located in a quiet and green passageway beside the Sagrada Familia ever-on-site temple and belongs to Andrea Serboli, one of the two founders of the architectural firm. It was therefore the perfect opportunity to develop a sample of the firm’s style, having as a single limit a maximum budget to invest, and to find place for a great number of objects and memories forming the owner’s collection.
The simple brief was to turn the house into a wunderkammer, a quiet retreat full of emotionally charged objects, with at least one guest room besides the main one.
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The Massana School forms part of the long transformation process of the Gardunya Square, situated in the heart of Barcelona’s historical district.
This project responds to the will of creating a luminous interior made up of open spaces in its 11,000 square meters of usable surface area, while at the same time achieving an exterior that remains harmonious with the urban web in which it stands.
The new community center was formerly a medium sized old theater, within the Association of neighbors of the Congrés-Indians neighborhood facilities, which has become obsolete due to the deterioration in time.
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