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Works #946

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AMOO STUDIO

AMOO STUDIO

CALÀBRIA thumbnail 1 © José Hevia
AMOO STUDIO

AMOO STUDIO

Location Barcelona, Spain
Year 2021
Categories Interior Design  >  Houses/Villas

Description Original Language (Catalan)

The property is located on the second floor of a building built in 1950 in the Nova Esquerra neighborhood of Barcelona's Eixample. The building has 4 doors per landing and intended for 'bonifiable middle class' housing as described by the architect FJ Barba Corsini in the report of the municipal works file.
The structure of the house is of load-bearing walls, with 6 bays parallel to the street, including the 4 facades: the two main ones and the two open to the sky. The flats are divided into 2 by the central load-bearing wall, which includes a small central courtyard. The house is accessed from one end and its main facade overlooks the interior island patio. It consists of a living-dining room, kitchen, 2 bedrooms and a bathroom, in a conventional space. The total area is 47.59m².

The project aims to eliminate the speculative distribution and, by eliminating one of its rooms and resorting to the small central ventilation courtyard as a core around which to rotate.

A crack in the load-bearing wall intended for circulation around the core is proposed, and the rest of the partitions are demolished. Integrating the load-bearing wall and the patio, the surrounding volume of the washroom is proposed, with a continuous strip of kitchen and cupboards in the middle opposite the entrance.

The strategy, which, as usual, is truncated by the neighbors' refusal to make any type of structural intervention, no matter how minimal, turns the project around without losing its essence. This fact does not prevent us from providing a solution to the usual program, but also to the unique characteristics of the project: accommodating the owner's collection of more than 1,400 CDs and 1,200 vinyls, for which integrated ad-hoc furniture is designed.

At a material and chromatic level, the north-east orientation of the only external facade directs the choice of pavement towards a light pavement that allows the scarce incoming light to be reflected, while the color of the sky-level is used as an element of warmth and comfort. This tone extends to the polygonal volume of the bathroom, softening its edges and contrasting it with a bluish tone that emerges from the interior and extends to specific points. Metallic elements contrast and shade the almost milky and warm atmosphere of the home.


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