Paris

Apartment in Eixample, Barcelona

This project consists in an interior and structural rehabilitation of an apartment, which had resulted from halving an original dwelling of Cerdà’s ‘Eixample’ in an estate dating 1925.

The great challenge was to fit the needs of the client into the reduced size of the dwelling. Thus, the main spaces orbit around a central piece of furniture that defines the core of daily life. This wooden counter varies in height to accompany the flow, as well as to serve and gather the hall, the dining and the kitchen to become the meeting point for its dwellers.

The rest of the spaces are placed along this piece of furniture and separated by a system of fixed walls and mobile panels. At the end of the path, the last sliding panels allow to incorporate an autonomous room as part of the living if required.

All the wooden works have been considered in light coloured wood as well as lacquered MDF to enhance the natural brightness coming from the façade. The artificial light has been designed to provide a homogeneous brightness in the whole apartment, as well as to reinforce its central counter.

Data:

Built: 2012

Built Surface area: 64 m2

Team:

Architects: Relja Ferusic Manusev and Lidija Manuseva