Nook Architects favours dwelling house over bedrooms in Barcelona flat revamp
Nook Architects has lowered the dimensions of bedrooms in Caldrap, a flat in Barcelona, to make room for a spacious and versatile new dwelling and eating house.
The house is positioned in an ageing high-rise within the metropolis’s Poble Sec neighbourhood.
With 67 square-metres of ground house, it was spacious sufficient to accommodate its new house owners – a household of three. But not one of the rooms was sufficiently big to permit its occupants to spend time collectively or to host company.
They requested Nook Architects to design a brand new format that may higher swimsuit their way of life.
“The house owners have been in search of a house for his or her household of three, by which the frequent house could be the primary focus,” defined the studio, which is led by Ana Garcia, Joan Cortés and Rubén F Berenguer.
“With this in thoughts, it was determined to provide the bedrooms and different areas secondary significance, whereas making certain their practical and storage wants have been nonetheless met,” stated the architects.
“This essential step allowed us to change the prevailing format and create a large, open daytime space: an all-in-one lounge, eating room and kitchen.”
The brand new format centres round a gallery-style house at one finish of the house, that includes a row of conventional wooden-frame home windows that face out over a verdant backyard.
Nook expanded this house by relocating the lavatory to the opposite aspect of the house and opening it as much as two adjoining rooms that have been beforehand separate.
However somewhat than making the room fully open-plan, the architects selected to maintain sections of the partitions intact. These assist to loosely divide it right into a kitchen space, a lounge house, and an space for eating and entertaining.
The house additionally features a nook comfortable with a custom-designed daybed.
“The bespoke couch will be remodeled right into a mattress for company, or just a spot to learn or have a siesta,” defined Nook Architects.
Supplies and finishes have been chosen to match with present particulars within the property. Picket joinery and flooring matches the tones of the unique home windows, whereas the terracotta tones of a standard Catalan vaulted ceiling are complemented by pale mint-green partitions.
Different particulars embody monochrome ground tiles with a geometrical sample and a white marble kitchen island.
“The supplies used on this undertaking have been restricted to these beforehand current: wooden, marble and ceramics,” stated the architects. “This mix is current all through the condominium and serves as a standard thread that connects all of the rooms.”
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The opposite rooms within the flat are compact, however designed to make environment friendly use of house. Constructed-in wardrobes now function in each bedrooms, and there’s a separate dressing room providing extra space for storing.
The brand new rest room is bigger than the earlier one, plus there may be additionally a utility room.
“The intervention offers the condominium with an optimum stage of thermo-acoustic and practical consolation, which is able to allow the house owners to take advantage of the on a regular basis moments of their fashionable lives, whereas having fun with a luscious, verdant oasis within the coronary heart of town,” added the architects.
Nook Architects has constructed its status on delicate renovations of interval properties in Barcelona. Different latest examples embody a house with a tiled paintings protecting one wall and a flat the place mirrors are used to make areas really feel bigger.
The group additionally designed its personal studio house in a renovated 1970s constructing in El Poblenou.
Images is by Gael del Río.
Venture credit:
Architects: Nook Architects
Structural work: Francesc Gorgas
Constructing work: Metric Integra