The necessities were being to change this smaller making situated in the Borne district of Barcelona, from the end of the 19th century and with 4 floors (but scarcely 20sqm per floor), into a place in which to be able to perform and expend brief stays in their visits to Barcelona, although, alongside these 8 decades, the individual and family members situation of the customer has transformed, to which the task has adapted.
The first situation of the property was in ruins, with pretty destroyed ground slabs, weak stairs, and components of them demolished. Added to this was the have to have to adapt the developing to present-day regulations, which made it nearly unachievable from the start out to reuse the interior, proceeding to totally demolish the building, sustaining only the facades and dividing partitions, and the roof slab (not the stair tower, which was rebuilt).
The development method, sluggish and complicated, at the very least authorized decisions to be manufactured as the essence of the estate was unveiled with the demolitions. Thus, once all the floors slabs experienced been demolished and the building was noticed as a slender and tall prism shaped by partitions with a absolutely heterogeneous composition of all varieties of bricks and stones arranged without having apparent order or composition, the concept of leaving all these partitions exposed turned conceptual: these 4 walls, in excess of 15m higher, are a museum of the building’s history, in which any trace of its building (arches, lintels, stairs, and beams), and of its use (mortar remains, furnishings, claddings..) will be remaining unaltered, uncovered in all its crudeness. The new flooring (3 in total) will be supported by new beams between the dividing walls, which will not touch either of the two facades: in the direction of the key facade, a sheet of glass will individual them from it and towards the inside façade, the stairwell will be a 4-tale void that unites the whole inside and shows the surprising peak of these kinds of a slender making. Consequently, the project is described, remaining to determine the takes advantage of of each and every ground and resolve the technical problems.
Obtain-kitchen-dining place, dwelling space, rest room-dressing room, bed room, and terrace sort, from base to top, the sequence of use. In any circumstance, with the exception of kitchen area furnishings and bathroom tools, absolutely nothing else occupies the flooring, so that their uses can be reversed about time or wanted, as effectively as turning the floors into functioning spaces.
The presence of the installations, by ruling out grooves in the partitions or compact wells from the beginning, acquire on a exclusive and relevant function within: 7 stainless metal cylinders run the complete top of the constructing, conducting all the electrical, air flow, plumbing, extraction, sanitation, air conditioning and telecommunications installations inside of 6 of the cylinders, leaving one particular of them empty for potential requires. These cylinders are not hidden and run by way of the developing by home furnishings and flooring. The relaxation of the installations are usually seen, hardly ever created-in, highlighting the roughness of the masonry walls on which they are located, liberating them from new servitudes.
In phrases of materiality, a specific refinement has been pursued in the new aspects to be carried out, in opposition to the crude expressiveness of the present walls, conscious that the room will have to house a home. As a result, the kitchen area is a frosted brass piece of home furnishings, shiny and with reflections, with a white marble top the bathroom machines is paneled with lacquered wooden in a a bit product coloration, with black and brass facts the ‘headboards’ of the flooring are coated in white microcement the hydraulic mosaic, microcement, and oak flooring add heat and coloration to the inside and the lacquered wooden ceilings incorporate registers and grids to ‘design’ these wants.
The structure is all painted white, in search of a specific substance abstraction, specifically in the advancement of the spiral staircase, which is made as a no cost-standing cylinder that operates the full top of the building with out touching its partitions at any time, giving Piranesian views served by the heterogeneity of the partitions and the diversity of details of watch. On the contrary, all the facts on the existing walls are direct and uncooked: the window frames are created with direct mortar, the pre-frames are not hid, and the structural features of ties are remaining unpolished. Previously mentioned, on top of the stairwell, a skylight introduces a lovely gradation of light-weight till the least expensive strata to the façade, the glass sheets bounce the lighting amongst floors and introduce ever-shifting reflections, allowing for the façade to be admired at its complete peak from the inside of, just as it happens in the void of the staircase.
The most important façade was rehabilitated adhering to the strict dictates of the heritage section, returning it to an impression of the past that it definitely never experienced. Only at the entrance doorway ended up we free to invent a front that reproduces the 3-dimensional style of the vintage hydraulic mosaic (applied on the ground flooring and significantly cherished by the shopper) with an exploded watch of rhombuses and triangles concluded with 3 types of aluminum, which conceals the doorway (only recognizable by the lock) and abstracts the entrance.
Architects: Raúl Sánchez Area : 105 m² Calendar year : 2022 Photographs :José Hevia
