Arquitectura-G completes sunshine-yellow Barcelona condominium for “nuclear household”

Sunny yellow surfaces characteristic extensively all through this duplex condominium in Barcelona, which has been refreshed by native studio Arquitectura-G.

The 2-floor condominium is located in one in every of Barcelona’s greatest districts, Sarrià-Sant Gervasi, which is populated with stately houses and high-end boutiques.

Having grown bored with the house’s convoluted flooring plan and shadowy residing areas, its house owners tasked Arquitectura-G with redesigning the condominium to make it appear extra spacious and shiny.

“They merely requested for a standard program for a nuclear household. They did not put any constraints within the design course of, nor the choices,” the studio instructed Dezeen.

Left with this open transient, the studio made the daring resolution to make nearly each floor within the condominium sunshine-yellow.

“We seemed for a lightweight color that will brighten the areas,” the studio defined, “additionally, this yellow occurred to be the color of the constructing’s courtyard-facing facade.”

“We want to make use of the identical color in the entire challenge, with a purpose to give a robust visible affect and make it a necessary a part of the home’s identification.”.

An enormous yellow sectional couch dominates a nook of the condominium’s decrease stage, the place the studio has knocked by means of a part of the ceiling to create an ethereal, double-height lounge.

Arquitectura-G makes use of solely gentle tones for Barcelona condominium renovation

Glazed yellow tiles have then been used to cowl a portion of the room’s flooring and rear wall, delineating the kitchen space.

The storage cabinets and cabinets right here have additionally been accomplished in yellow, however the faucet taps and counter tops are made out of contrasting chrome steel.

Yellow tiles go on to cowl the condominium’s stairwell, which has steps constructed from gridded sheets of yellow steel.

It leads as much as the higher flooring, which has been accomplished in the identical sunny color palette. The Brazilian wooden flooring that options downstairs has been swapped right here for comforting yellow carpet.

Yellow plaster additionally covers an undulating wall that gives some separation between the kids’s sleeping quarters.

The identical gridded yellow steel that options on the steps has additionally been employed to make the house’s balcony and to create protecting fencing within the small backyard.

This is not the primary time that Arquitectura-G has used only one color all through a challenge. Again in 2017, the studio revamped an condominium in Barcelona’s Gracia district, solely making use of off-white paint all through the inside.

5 years in the past it additionally overhauled a home within the rural Spanish village of Cilleros, cladding the flooring of its residing areas and courtyard in orange-hued terracotta tiles.

Pictures is by José Hevia.