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CABINET STUDIO APARTMENT
VALENCIA APARTMENT REFURBISHMENT, BARCELONA
The project consists of the adaptation of a small corner flat in the Eixample district of Barcelona to be used as a study for the next 15 years, and as a “retirement” apartment thereafter.
To achieve this flexibility, the proposal concentrates all of the services in a single area, as though part of a hutch, which crosses the main rooms following the 45º logic of a corner flat.
This space houses the kitchen and the bathroom, as well as a loft that will function as a storage when the space is a study, and as a mezzanine/bedroom for the future grandchildren when they come to visit.
The rest of the house is left practically intact. The floors, ceilings and moldings that were kept in good condition are recovered to establish a careful contrast with the area of the services: a contrast that combines the two directions united in a corner flat, as well as the two uses the house will have in the future.
Autor / Architects: Anna & Eugeni Bach / Bach arquitectes
Colaboradores / Collaborators: Mario Sousa, arquitecto.
Fecha de finalización de la obra / Completion date: 2018
Superficie construida / Built surface:77 m2
Constructor: Oak 2000, SL
Emplazamiento / Adress: c/ Valencia, Barcelona.
Fotografías / Photographs: Eugeni Bach
Mes coups de coeur de la semaine du 25 février
Comme tous les samedi désormais zut on est dimanche je suis grave à la bourre, je vous propose quelques coups de coeur de la semaine repérés sur le web ou dans des magazines. Pour cette dernière semaine de février, voici donc ma sélection :) Bonne lecture !
J'étais déjà tombée il y a longtemps sur le site d'Arteslonga, et je suis contente de l'avoir retrouvé, et bien sûr, sans avoir oublié de l'ajouter dans ma liste de site "Vintage-Chine". Vous y trouverez des objets, du mobilier depuis l'époque Napoléon III jusqu'aux années 70. Ce que j'aime sur ce site, c'est la mise en scène de leur objets dans des ambiances, et qu'on peut retrouver facilement avec le menu "Ambiance". Pour chaque mise en scène, la liste des objets est affichée sour le visuel... Une jolie brocante en ligne !
Cette semaine, j'ai téléchargé le nouveau catalogue Ikea Dedans Dehors 2013 qui est donc un catalogue présentant la nouvelle collection outdoor du géant suédois... Et qui nous donne qu'une seule envie : que les beaux jours arrivent ! Même si comme moi, vous n'avez qu'un petit balcon en ville de quelques mètres carrés :) Vous trouverez ci-dessous une petite sélection de ce qui m'a plu ! (pour télécharger le catalogue cliquez ici). Je sais j'ai déjà parlé de la nouvelle collection 2013, mais là, difficile de passer à côté de nouveau !
PLAYHOUSE, 2011 LOCATION: PALOLA FARM, NUMMI PUSULA, FINLAND PHOTO: TIIA ETTALA ARCHITECT: BACH ARQUITECTES
PLAYHOUSE WHEN AN ARCHITECT COUPLE HAS YOUNG KIDS, THERE WILL ARRIVE A DAY WHEN THEY ASK: - MOM, DAD… YOU´RE ARCHITECTS, AREN’T YOU? - YES… - AND YOU MAKE HOUSES FOR PEOPLE? - YES, OF COURSE… AND THEN COMES THE KEY QUESTION: - SO WHY DON’T YOU DO A HOUSE FOR US?
IN SUCH A SITUATION, THERE ARE TWO POSSIBILITIES: FIND AN EXCUSE TO AVOID IT, OR PROMISE THEM THAT YOU WILL MAKE A HOUSE ESPECIALLY DESIGNED FOR THEM. WE FOUND OURSELVES IN THIS STUATION LAST SUMMER, AND WE PROMISED THEM THAT WE WOULD BUILD A HOUSE FOR THEM ON THEIR GRANDPARENTS FARM IN FINLAND. AND, OF COURSE, AT THE KIDS INSISTENCE WE FULFILLED OUR PROMISE.
THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE HOUSE TOOK TWO WEEKS. IT WAS ALL BUILT BY TWO PERSONS (OURSELVES, PLUS TWO LITTLE HELPERS), AND WAS AN EDUCATIONAL PROCESS AS REWARDING AS PEDAGOGIC: CHILDREN SAW AND UNDERSTOOD THAT THINGS ARE ACHIEVED WITH EFFORT, AND THAT YOU CAN BUILD YOUR OWN DREAMS. FOR THE STRUCTURE AND THE FLOORS WE USED SPRUCE WOOD FROM THE GRANDPARENT´S FARM, FROM TREES PLANTED BY THE KIDS´ GREAT GRANDFATHER AND CUT BY THEIR GRANDFATHER. THE REST OF THE WOOD WAS BOUGHT AT THE HARDWARE STORE, FROM SMALL WOOD SAWMILLS IN THE AREA.THE WHOLE HOUSE IS MADE OF WOOD; STRUCTURE, FLOORS, WALLS AND ROOF, USING TRADITIONAL CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES USED IN FINNISH BARNS SUCH AS LEAVING A NAIL DISTANCE BETWEEN SLATS TO VENTILATE THE HOUSE, OR A ROOFING SYSTEM MADE FROM A SIMPLE OVERLAPPING OF GROOVED WOODEN PLANKS TO PREVENT THE INGRESS OF WATER.
Article featuring this project: http://www.domusweb.it/en/news/playhouse-by-anna-eugeni-bach/
The interior becomes what children understand as an essential house: a larger space that could be the living room, a lower space where the kitchen could be imagined and a higher ground where there could be the rooms. The abstract nature of the interior spaces allows a child's imagination to flow, and those spaces that could be identified as a domestic interior can suddenly become play spaces.
This whole project is so sweet that now I'm wondering why I didn't see any unicorns prancing in the background.