An Integrated Project of Interior Design, Decoration and execution of 300 m2 in which we have obtained a wider, luminous and open spaces.
In the central area of Barcelona, the owners wanted to optimize the existing space and obtain a better distribution of the house to create homogeneous and fluid areas. The home consists of two hexagons that connect at right angles and a large outdoor terrace, making the distribution project the most complex part.
Article source: ESPINET / UBACH ARQUITECTES I ASSOCIATS S.L.P.
The architecture studio Espinet / Ubach has completed a project consisting of 26 social housing units situated next to the emblematic old textile factory Can Batlló in Barcelona. A central courtyard is the driving element of the project, as it regulates the temperature of the building and acts as the epicentre of community life.
The residential building of Can Batlló is the result of a public competition organized by the Municipal Patronat de l’Habitatge de Barcelona (PMHB). It is located on a residual site, bordering the former textile factory of Can Batlló (which has been classified as ‘of public interest’), in the heart of the Sants district. The plot has three sides that look out onto varying urban landscapes.
The project consist of the remodel of an apartment located in an old building in Barcelona’s Gracia district. The former 90 m2 apartment, was heavily partitioned with up to 6 rooms and gave off a dark appearance with almost no connection with the outdoor space.
The new owners, a Norwegian couple in love with design and with the city of Barcelona, had understood the potential of its sunny inner courtyard covered with ivy vines, and chose to buy it as their holiday residence. They wanted to transform it in a bright and open space and create a semi-exterior garden to overcome the lack of an outdoor space.
Three starting points: understanding the historic value of Lleialtat Santsenca (1928),an old working class cooperative in the Sants neighborhood; knowing to the detail the building’s (physical) state to maintain as much as possible; and being sensitive to the whole collaborative process launched in 2009 by neighborhood organizations to recover the building.
To this end, four basic objectives were set out: first, taking advantage of everything that could be used from the original; second, defining an intervention strategy marking out the essential actions, conservative or not, allowing to recover and increase the potential uses of all those spaces;
third, to establish an intensive dialogue – and tense, if due – with context; and fourth, to develop a sustainable proposal, regarding the work on the existing as well as the new interventions.
A classic pattern of office building. It consists in a sequence of surface areas around a courtyard with single entrance. General atrium of the complex.
Heating and cooling this space involved major economic investment and energy wastage. This is what we were faced with.
We convinced the client to turn it into a more sustainable, contextual (in keeping with Mediterranean tradition) and beautiful space.
Here, the courtyard is open, protected from the sun and planted with large trees and profuse vegetation. The space is cross-ventilated.
Article source: CaSA – Colombo and Serboli Architecture
This small apartment is located on a top floor in hip Sant Antoni neighborhood, Barcelona.
The brief was to take the empty, irregular floor plan (demolitions had already been carried out) and transform it into the perfect home for a young professional Italian woman. The client’s wishes were an open-plan day area, a clean-lines project, loads of light, a big kitchen unit, one double bedroom that could be minimal and a bathroom, as big as possible, with natural light and ventilation, serving the bedroom but open to guests. The project had to provide plenty of storage in order to keep the spaces tidy, be very practical, while contemporary and cozy.
The project houses the “New Sancho de Avila’s Funeral Home” (“Tanatorio de Sancho de Ávila”) in Barcelona. It is located in the same block as the ‘same-name’ original building. The original Funeral Home opened in 1968, and was the first existing funeral home which introduced, in Spain, the concept of wake outside the family home, thus representing a change in the way of vigil the dead. 50 years after the construction of the original building, the challenge was to design a building which became a new funeral home model adapted to the present and future needs of the sector and become a benchmark for the city.
The object of the reform work was an apartment situated in an old block of flats. It was built in 1900, in the Born district, in Barcelona. Although its antiquity, this storey did not show any element of the original construction. It has had different renovations, and one after the other were adding new coats or layers, and so the typical elements of the style of construction at the beginning of the XX century were hidden.
Adhering to the clients demands a completely renewed apartment was created. Where there were a storey with many rooms with poor natural daylighting and salubriousness problems, new spaces and volumes gave the apartment a completely different dimension, in addition to the value of the original details renovated.
The clients needed a small restoration of a house built in 1983 and, specially, the creation of a new space to work.
The building was very badly adapted to the land, the original topography. It was divided into two platforms separated by a retaining wall of 6 metres height. This wall generates a very important visual impact and provokes the isolation of two platforms.
The house is located on the superior platform, which is built with ceramic brickwork without interest, with too many constructive solutions for the different façades. All its perimeter is surrounded by a narrow terrace, so with a limited use.
Health Centre located in the border between the Eixample and the Gracia neighbourhoods in Barcelona, on the first 4 floors of the elderly people dwellings promoted by the City Council. It is a pilot building of the High-Combi program of the European Union, for high solar performance buildings, which won the Endesa Award for the most sustainable promotion in Spain.
Given the need to develop the program in height and depth, the entrance of natural light to the central zone is prioritized. The mezzanine floor is removed from the facade to be an elevated extension of the street as a space of relationship.
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