Barcelona-based mostly Colombo and Serboli Architects has renovated an apartment within an early 1900’s constructing – aiming to “retrieve its Artwork Nouveau essence” through the restoration and recreation of unique functions .
Located in the Eixample district of Barcelona, the architects had been tasked with producing a room suitable for an Italian family members to use as a holiday house.
“Their wish was to have three double bedrooms,” explained Colombo and Serboli Architects, also identified as CaSA. “And they desired a home that would highlight and underline the early 1900s detailing of the building, via a layout that uses a modern language.”
Geometric tiles on the floor within the residing area had been added to reinterpret what the architects describe as a single of the most characteristic aspects of Art Nouveau apartments in Barcelona.
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These historic tiles feature in recent tasks by Nook Architects and Vora Arquitectura.
“The buildings in the Eixample location of Barcelona had been developed in the early 20th century and are primarily Art Nouveau,” the architects advised Dezeen. “Often if you are lucky you find colourful encaustic cement tiles, but in this situation they had been gone – so we decided to put in new ones.”
To highlight this new flooring, the architects chose to use easy colours and resources all through the Tyche Apartment.
“The coloured components were also critical,” they stated. “They are all used in very modern language, and are not making an attempt to mimic Artwork Nouveau atmospheres, only suggesting subtly.”
Catalan vaults – a classic Spanish ceiling style where plain bricks are laid in rows across gently curved varieties to develop a series of smooth minimal ceiling arches – getting been exposed following obtaining been hidden beneath a false ceiling.
The master bedroom and bathroom are situated at the far finish of the apartment, in a area previously housing a kitchen, and are painted in a yellow-orange colour to differentiate the area from the rest of the home.
Part of the old corridor were opened up to produce a bigger kitchen-residing room, while two bedrooms inside of a light pink-coloured volume are joined onto the second wall.
Unique wooden window frames have been painted pink and green, and a pine-clad block disguises the principal bathroom at the end of the corridor.
The prior layout of the creating was determined by three load-bearing walls that separated the space into a variety of modest places.
Aiming to open up the apartment, the architects created “transversal axes” close to which the space is organised. The very first is the hallway, which frames the area about the residing space and kitchen, and the 2nd is a pair of bedrooms that separate the living room from the master bedroom.
“The original layout wasted significant room and was poorly orientated,” the architects mentioned. “Its longitudinal distribution, forced by the transversal bearing walls, resulted in several densely separated tiny spaces that have been spared along a prolonged corridor that isolated the two ends of the apartment.”
Furniture that corresponds to the colour theme includes lighting by Normann Copenhagen and kitchen stools by Danish brand Hay.
“White metal components and pastel colours have been picked, along with a couple of grey objects, to emphasise even a lot more colours and give life to the atmosphere,” they mentioned.
CaSA has previously renovated an additional Barcelona holiday apartment, continuing a terracotta balcony via to the within of the house, even though Spanish studio Laboratory for Architecture also uncovered the Catalan vaulted-ceiling of an apartment in the city.
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