Raúl Sanchez Architects strips again Barcelona condo to showcase architectural particulars

A collection of light-filled dwelling areas function inside this Barcelona condo, which Raúl Sanchez Architects has stripped again to spotlight the constructing’s sloped facade.

Atic Aribau is ready inside one of many chamfered-corner residential buildings which are attribute of Barcelona’s Eixample neighbourhood.

The 110-square-metre condo – which takes its title from a close-by road – has been overhauled by locally-based studio Raúl Sanchez Architects to highlight its distinctive architectural options.

“Earlier to the design, the condo appeared actually old style and had lots of small, darkish rooms – no performance was there, it wasn’t interesting,” the studio’s eponymous founder, Raúl Sanchez, informed Dezeen.

“The brand new house owners are a pair with a pair of cats, who simply needed greater areas and extra gentle inside.”

The studio subsequently knocked by way of all the condo’s present partitions, solely forsaking a significant structural wall which curves just like the constructing’s exterior.

It now serves as an anchor to the open-plan dwelling and eating space, which has been accomplished with a lilac kitchen suite and marble-topped breakfast island.

Though a majority of the ground has been coated with pale gray mortar, hexagonal tiles that run alongside the chamfered wall have been preserved from the earlier fit-out.

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“[The floor] exactly factors out the significance of the chamfer itself within the conceptual growth of the proposal,” added Sanchez.

A swing has additionally been suspended from the ceiling, in a nod to the shoppers’ playful personalities.

Personal quarters of the house are hid by a full-height oak wooden panel that runs perpendicular to the condo’s entrance facade.

It’s built-in with a collection of doorways, a few of that are inlaid with vast strips of shiny gold brass, or fitted with skinny copper handles.

“I did not need them to appear to be doorways, they needed to appear to be one thing treasured and mysterious,” added Sanchez.

Surfaces within the bed room have been stored all white, besides the headboard which seems to increase up from the timber floorboards.

Color has been utilized extra liberally within the toilet, which lies behind the residences pre-existing structural wall. Blush-pink mortar covers nearly each floor, contrasting in opposition to a chunky black-marble washbasin.

The area is fronted by black-framed panels of fluted area, obscuring views from the adjoining hall.

There an additional toilet on the rear of the condo, together with a small room the place the proprietor’s cats can play.

Atic Aribau is certainly one of a number of tasks that Raul Sanchez Architects has accomplished in Barcelona.

Others embrace a duplex condo within the metropolis’s Raval neighbourhood, which is centred by two big golden cubes, and a basement flat within the La Barceloneta space which boasts a grand vaulted ceiling.

Images is by David Zarzoso.

Challenge credit:

Structure: Raúl Sánchez Architects
Engineering: Marés ingenieros
Construction: Diagonal Arquitectura
Building: Ubicaciones y Espacios