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Ca na Riera, a flat refurbishment in the neighbourhood of Sant Antoni, Barcelona by Atzur Arquitectura

Project name:
Ca na Riera
Architecture firm:
Atzur Arquitectura
Location:
Sant Antoni neighbourhood, Barcelona, Spain
Photography:
Judith Casas, Aide Monge
Principal architect:
Milagros Machado Ferrari, Claudia Ferrer Riera
Design team:
Claudia Ferrer Riera, Milagros Machado Ferrari
Collaborators:
Pablo Álvarez Pagani, Xavi Mata
Built area:
65 m²
Site area:
Design year:
2020
Completion year:
2021
Interior design:
Claudia Ferrer Riera, Milagros Machado Ferrari
Environmental & MEP engineering:
Structural engineer:
Landscape:
Lighting:
Faro Barcelona
Material:
Concrete, wood, glass
Construction:
Xavi Mata
Supervision:
Visualization:
Tools used:
AutoCAD, SketchUp, Adobe Photoshop, Lumion
Client:
Lourdes Riera
Budget:
Undisclosed
Status:
Completed
Typology:
Residential › Apartment

Atzur Arquitectura: The project consists of the reform of a flat in Barcelona’s Eixample. It is located on the chamfer, which explains its elongated and narrow plan, almost of corridor. Before the intervention, the apartment had undergone multiple transformations. The original hydraulic flooring and Catalan vaulted roof had been covered by low-value materials. The proposal seeks to put them in value, rescuing the essence of the place.

In terms of distribution, the space adapts to the contemporary way of life and to the concrete needs of its inhabitants. The house is structured through two wooden boxes that delimit the most intimate spaces (the rooms), thereby achieving the maximum use of natural light and ventilation, as well as large and flexible common areas.

In addition, these boxes fulfill the function of storage, and in one of the cases, includes a high bed, in order to free the ground floor space for other required uses. The strips occupied by the <<wooden furniture>> have a continuous pavement, while in the rest of the floor the original hydraulic has been preserved. This play of materiality and textures allows to break with the elongated proportion that the housing originally presented.

Faro (lighting) , Jung, Ikea (furniture), Kave Home (funiture), Duravit (bath), Balay (kitchen), Rekker (kitchen), Cement Design (floor) carpenter (Pablo Álvarez Pagani).


By Naser Nader Ibrahim

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