Reform

An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about reform

Project • By ALE ESTUDIOOffices

ESPACIO AGUACATE

Located on Calle Aguacate in the Carabanchel district, Espacio Aguacate is part of one of Madrid’s most rapidly transforming neighbourhoods. Traditionally associated with a working-class identity, Carabanchel has in recent years become an emerging creative hub, where artists’ workshops, cultural spaces and a new generation looking for an accessible and vibrant way of living in the city coexist. This hybrid context, somewhere between the everyday and the experimental, provides the starting point for the project. With an area of 105 m², the space occupies the fourth floor, giving it a quality that is difficult to find in the city: large windows run along most of its façades, filling the interior with natural light and... More

Project • By Tulli StudioApartments

Apartamento MORADA

Apartment Morada was renovated with the aim of exploring potential and sophistication. Elegance goes hand in hand with warmth and comfort, without losing the customers' identity.Upon entering, you are faced with a Paraná marble table. Installed inside a wooden cube structure: a covered niche that dialogues aesthetically with the table, having a buffet function, making it an eye-catching and functional addition. Eduardo Macarios The Dining Room has a leather sofa, fabric armchairs (with wooden structure) and neutral rug, bringing a relaxing atmosphere. There is a beautiful white panel with woody edges and a cupboard for storage and divider with the TV Room. Both have a slightly gray porcelain floor.In the kitchen, the table, she... More

Project • By Tulli StudioApartments

Apartamento Cubo

Cube Apartment. The home has a multifunctional cave, where there is freedom for everything: to work, to watch, to rest and to receive. A place where warmth and modernity come together, where neutral is present, but with points of color in the decoration, such as in the pillows and fabrics. Plenty of empty space between the furniture, so that everything is functional but very comfortable. Ivan Araújo The aim of the project was the renovation of the apartment which is located in a very old building. It has an area of ​​88m² and has new bespoke joinery, new lighting, new stones and marble and granite tops. Straight lines, neutrality, flexibility, comfort and organization are key elements of this property, in addition to the p... More

Project • By JRTA (Jofre Roca Taller d'Arquitectura)Apartments

Carme Apartment

In the heart of the historic center of Barcelona, in the emblematic street of Carme, an apartment is refurbished on the principal floor, with access to three courtyards, the largest being the one located at the back of the plot. These courtyards will be transformed into gardened spaces and will receive a landscaping treatment with the aim of creating an outdoor space to disconnect from the frenetic cosmopolitan pace, especially to the surrounding streets. This green area contributes to mitigate the heat island effect in the city.  Adrià Goula Sardà Adrià Goula Sardà Adrià Goula Sardà The intervention consists of rehabilitating a house with a contemporary program taking into acco... More

Project • By JRTA (Jofre Roca Taller d'Arquitectura)Offices

A-R 22@ Office Building

The project was created after winning a private competition to reform a seven floors office building of approximately 1,100 m2 each, in the 22 @ district of Barcelona. The original building project was completed in 2002. This new reform was proposed to give the building more open and contemporary spaces. All common spaces of the building are reformed (lobby, stairs, reception, bathrooms, solarium cover, ...) A new diaphanous lobby is proposed, avoiding conventional commercial solutions. The proposal maintains coherence both in terms of form and in the use of materials and construction systems. Adrià Goula Sardà Adrià Goula Sardà Spaces are transformed into pleasant and healthy places, well lit and ven... More

Project • By JRTA (Jofre Roca Taller d'Arquitectura)Shops

Carner Barcelona Perfumery

In the center of the city and the Eixample District, on the commercial axis of Paseo de Gracia, the new corporate headquarters of Carner Barcelona is designed. A local brand of exquisite, intense and innovative perfumes in Barcelona.  Caption It is located in a building that preserves its original and typical construction elements of the Catalan architecture. The sobriety and authenticity of the designed spaces allow the values and philosophy of the brand to emerge. It is contextualized in the Mediterranean and local crafts. Likewise, the resulting homogeneous white color makes the product stand out. The strategies are focus in the search of a timeless project that links tradition with cosmopolitan contemporaneity, which tunes wi... More

Project • By JRTA (Jofre Roca Taller d'Arquitectura)Apartments

Escudellers Apartment

In the historic centre of Barcelona, a flat is reformed, in a building of 1840 on the emblematic Escudellers Street, which in the Middle Ages has been the centre of the potter’s guild. In rehabilitation we take into account traditional construction techniques. Adrià Goula Sardà Access from the street is decadent. The itinerary to the house builds an experience that will continue to its interior. The high ceilings and patios allow natural lighting inside the apartment. Intense experiences are generated and moving away from the crazy rhythm of the city. Adrià Goula Sardà In the program, the existing distribution was modified, according to current requirements. In this way, all the rooms receive na... More

Project • By GRX arquitectosApartments

HOUSE OF CURTAINS

AN EXPERIMENT WITH LIGHTThe project to transform this house seeks, as its main challenge, the entrance of light into a dark block of flats. For this reason, from the beginning of the development of the project the reference "El Bañuelo" of Granada was the inspiration of this project, Arab baths built in the s. XI without façade to the outside, fully illuminated and ventilated through perforated skylights on its upper decks, which flood this interior construction with overhead and vertical light. These perforations inspire the lighting in this house, demolishing as much as we could the interior partitioning and making horizontal cylindrical perforations that introduce natural light into the new spaces. As a consequence of this... More

Project • By Arturo Moreno architecturePrivate Houses

AJ House

The owners want to break with a constrained and standard housing model for another adapted to their way of understanding and enjoying their home, without having to change their location in the city.   The creative process is based on the owners wishes wich will be the backbone of the final proposal.   The house proposal establishes a clear separation between the day area and the night area, which currently did not occur. The active social life of the owners, as well as their family dynamics invites us to design an open, bright day area with the possibility of adapting it to the needs and desires of each moment.   The night area is grouped and provided with greater privacy, hidden behind a large wooden box.   Thre... More

Project • By Pablo Muñoz Payá ArquitectosApartments

Explanada Reform

“Each process of change means an emergence, a development and a becoming and this is only imaginable in time” – Carl Menger.    The “Explanada Reform” arose from the need to adapt space and interior design to the changes experienced between differing generations, evolving and creating, bringing about as a result a new home.   All this led Pablo Muñoz Payá Architects to reorganise and carry out an integral reform of this home located in Petrer (Alicante), which has a surface area of 85m2.   The initial distribution, which was much divided, is transformed into one that is simplified, with the idea of connecting the rooms in order to obtain visually more spacious areas, inte... More

Project • By Minimal StudioShops

Barber's Club,

"Behind a grand Project there is a grand client"Barber's Club consists in the evolution of a traditional barbershop concept, perpetuated by a lineage of barbers, dated from 1929. Situated in Plaça Banc de S'Oli 09, Palma de Mallorca.During all phases of the project, the fusion or synergy between traditional elements, lasting in time, with avant-garde materials has been sought. Seeking to not only offer a service, but an unrepeatable experience for the client.The place has been designed as if it were a traditional razor. Where the softness and warmth of the velvety parament stand out, like the handle, with the millimeter precision and coldness of its blade, represented by the metallic mesh that covers and delimits the surface of the place.A... More