This small apartment is located in a building from the 1950s in the Guinardó neighborhood of Barcelona, originally conceived as an industrial workshop.

The intervention starts from the demolition of the layers added in different reforms of the space that partially concealed a beautiful structure formed by brick walls, concrete porticos and ceilings of concrete joists and ceramic vaults.

The organization of the space is solved by two pieces of furniture that underline the existing structure of porticoes, establishing a difference between the pre-existing and the added, the permanent and the ephemeral.

These pieces of furniture provide a certain permeability of the space, allow access to natural light in the areas furthest from the façade and partly solve the storage needs.

The program is organized into three areas linked to the diaphragmatic order of space. Access is through the kitchen, the brightest room, opened to the main façade. The center of gravity of the house is a multipurpose space of almost 40m2 corresponding to two structural modules. The third area contains the bedroom and the bathroom, which is conceived as an autonomous and immaterial box.

The dominant materiality is the ceramic of the existing walls, the pine wood of the furniture and the new stoneware flooring, conceived as a uniform carpet covering the entire house, with the occasional introduction of another format of the same material that underlines the thresholds.

An existing door is reused to resolve the access to the bathroom and some elements anchored to the walls that evoke the industrial memory of the place are kept intact.

Team:
Architect: 08014 arquitectura
Carpenter: Fusteria Montanyà
Contractor: Construcciones Delgado SCP
Photography: Pol Viladoms

Material Used:
1. Pavement tiles (rooms): Marazzi
2. Pavement tiles (thresholds): Equipe
3. Kitchen countertop: Compac
4. Radiators: Irsap (Tesi)