And just when we thought “open plan” was forever, that we would never build a new wall again, and that, with time, everyone would become used to showering in the middle of the living room… a sensible couple walks in, and asks us to “separate what God has united”
The goal was to draw back into the house´s lay out a secluded private area clearly separated from a more extroverted realm. Even if this implied “undoing” all what had been previously invested in the imposed process of turning it into a “loft” in order to adapt to one of the longer lasting real state trends of the recent past. The outcome: a home that manages to reconcile purpose zone segregation with visual permeability, spaciousness and versatility.
The project consists of the interior reform of a former gatekeeper residence, located on the roof of a building in the Barcelona district Gracia. Enjoying a privileged location overlooking the neighboring buildings and surrounded by a large terrace, this apartment showed serious deficiencies such as its small size of 38 m2.
Cocina Hermanos Torres is a project born of the wish to generate a new experience vis-à-vis the world of cuisine and catering. A new space, one that is ideal for living a new culinary experience. Container and content come together in the interests of a unique experience.
“More than a restaurant with a kitchen we’d like to create a kitchen with a restaurant,” has been the Torres brothers’ premise when embarking on the transformation of a former industrial warehouse of 800 m2 that had to be completely overhauled to become “the warehouse of our dreams.” The project by the OAB studio of Carlos and Borja Ferrater is, therefore, created with a view to effacing or blurring certain dividing lines between the different spaces that make up a traditional restaurant in locating the kitchen as not only the central feature of the intervention but also as an immersive element. The restaurant is the kitchen and the scenic space where the diner is both a spectator and a protagonist.
The existing school was the result of additions of temporary buildings over many years around two villas of the early twentieth century. The new set brings forward a dialogue between the historical school and the new one. A visual and programmatic relationship is established between both buildings, through a porch that allows indoor communication connecting them with a space under which to shelter in case of rain.
Vil•la Urània is a small residence of the late nineteenth century that was home to the renowned astronomer Josep Comas i Solà, in the district of Sarrià-Sant Gervasi in Barcelona. The densification of the neighborhood left the building and the small surrounding garden encased between two large dividing walls. The new complex of facilities assumes the challenge of giving a new life to the existing building and gardens by incorporating them into a new building with low environmental impact and reduced energy consumption.
LA FORNERIA is a bakery family business in the ground floor of a building in the neighborhood of Sarrià, Barcelona. A place of fluid transit which invites to sit wherever you want, how you want with room for everyone.
The purpose was to give to the space a natural image to make it be like a mirror of its handcrafted products, produced entirely in their own workshop. Burned pine needles as a reminiscent of wood, wicker baskets, lamps and doors as a concept that combined with the elegance of oak wood and micro cement wallcovering emphasize the natural iron counter and the big product displayer. Clear and simple. The red bar makes a nod to the exterior facade.
This restaurant was born from the idea of two friends with large experience in the world of restoration who wanted to offer to their clients a different concept of food, based on platos y platillos, the conventional spanish tiny dishes. Their plates pretend to innovate with new and surprising recipes, and each one of them contains small portions, which allows you to try many of them. The cook, Grabiel Ciscar, prepares seasonal meals with a wide range of options.
The project consists of a full refurbishment of an apartment in the Eixample district in Barcelona, in a traditional building block from the early twentieth century.
The project presents the renovation of an apartment in a building of 1916 located in the old town of Barcelona. It has a surface of 46 sqm and originally presented a decayed image and excessively subdivided with rooms. The two windows of the façade are the only ones able to use for ventilation and natural illumination. It has a very small service yard that is closed and an elevator added later occupying most of it.
Article source: Adrià Escolano and David Steegmann
Living on a terrace. The project is conceived according to the client’s main desire: a house turned towards the exterior. The operation, however, is not so much to open the views to the terrace as in providing the interior with attributes of the exterior, resonances of the landscape of the roofs of the city, often invaded by clothes hanging in the sun.
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