Undressing what exists and transforming what is necessary to create a sequence of interrelated spaces has been the greatest objective of this rehabilitation. To give value to certain pre-existing elements of the house and the environment by eliminating unnecessary elements, is the starting point of the project of this detached house located a few meters away from the epicenter of the Horta district in Barcelona.
The rehabilitation of TAAB6 takes place in a house dated from 1930, with a facade of 7m wide and a built depth of 10m. This town house survives the real estate pressure and the transformation of the neighborhood that has been replacing this typology with multi-family buildings of more than 4 floors as those that surround it.
 

Description of project by TAAB6

The proposal is based on recovering some existing original elements (structure, pavements and enclosures) and adding the minimum to transform it into a sensitive, functional and sustainable project.

The new distribution of the interior spaces is adapted to the needs of its inhabitants and the composition of the same allows visual perspectives along the plot and through the house facilitating at the same time an improvement of natural ventilation in both plants.

The facade of the street (East) remains intact to the original and the interior facade (West) are transformed by adding two elements to improve the envelope of the existing building, a pergola of bamboo with vegetation on the ground floor and three wooden roller shutters on the first floor that at the same time give privacy to the balcony. In this same facade, the predominant ceramic of the buildings that surround it, serves as the background to integrate the only new volume of the house, a cube raised in “termoarcilla” where the bathroom of the master bedroom is located. All in a set of terracotta textures and colors that mimic the facade of the garden in a heterogeneous and fragmented environment.

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TAAB6. Ivan Llach & Raquel Colacios
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Construction year.- November 2017
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REHABITAR
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Horta, Barcelona, Spain
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Raquel Colacios Parra. Msc. Architect. Born in Granollers, Barcelona (1978). Architect (2002) and Master in International Cooperation: Sustainable Emergency Architecture (2011) by ESARQ-UIC.  After working for several architectural firms like Jean Nouvel or Vicente Guallart among others, in 2006 she co-founded together with Ivan Llach the firm Taab6 Architects in Barcelona. She has won several architectural and urban competitions, including a European prize in Pärnu, Estonia.

Professor of undergraduate and post-graduate studies at ESARQ-UIC. Program Coordinator of the Master of International Cooperation in Sustainable Emergency Architecture ESARQ UIC, a program that belongs to the prestigious Erasmus Mundus consortium: Mundus Urbano. Her research is focused on the recognition and reinterpretation of the social infrastructure layer through a methodological approach based on living and mapping social networks as part of the urban design process.

Iván llach Juny. Architect. Born in Barcelona (1976). Architect since 2002 at ESARQ-UIC Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura - Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (Spain). Since the beginning of his professional activity he has worked for and in collaboration with renowned studios such as MAP (Josep Lluis Mateo), R & B (José Miguel Roldán) and SCAPE architecture (Duncan Lewis) among others. In 2006 he co-founded with Raquel Colacios TAAB6 Architects in Barcelona. 

He is Lecturer of Architecture within the International Cooperation program at ESARQ-UIC (Barcelona), guest lecturer at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven KULeuven (Belgium) within the master’s program MaHS MaUSP and guest lecturer at AHO, The Oslo School of Architecture and Design (Norway) within the master’s program of Landscape and Urban Design. He has also participated as a guest lecturer in Architecture and Urban programs in other Universities as HCMUARC, University of Architecture and Planning of Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) and BAC Barcelona Architectural Centre (Spain).
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Published on: October 11, 2018
Cite: "Casa JJA, new project by TAAB6" METALOCUS. Accessed
<http://www.metalocus.es/en/news/casa-jja-new-project-taab6> ISSN 1139-6415
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