Following the ideas of reuse and transformation, they come to defining the essential elements of space through the removal of existing accessory elements in walls and ceilings. This cleaning, that is strategic rather than "hygienic" preserve, on the walls, traces, marks, layers of paint...allowing the groundwork for consolidation (structural reinforcements, few cracks, confinement) and "critical" replacements. Pere Buil and Toni Riba have achieved to allow a reading on the floor of the original distribution in smaller rooms, and a colour homogeneization and optimization of natural light.
Before our intervention, in this apartment overlapping stages were visible. Several uses through time accumulated layer over layer. At a first glance one could feel a strange and blurred atmosphere. But beyond confusion we could realise the power of its original defining features: a sequence of linked spaces separated by a powerful rhythm of bearing walls; the distinction of space hierarchy through different mosaic floors; big wood windows, etc.
A self-enclosed modules (boxes) contain services and storages, with a substructure apparent wood studs to the outside (such as packaging, it is important to the inside). The facilites are strategically concentrated in the gaps between "boxes" and placeholder to avoid races in the pre-existence. The "boxes" are finished in white with veladura, combining up chromatically to the containing space.
CREDITS
Architects: vora arquitectura. Pere Buil and Toni Riba.
Team. Collaborators: Arnau Boronat, Ana Silva, Carolina Silva.
Contractor: Fórneas Guida s.l.
Dates. Project: March 2010 - January 2011. Construction: February 2011 - October 2011.
Surface area: 120 m².
Adress: carrer Gran de Gràcia. Barcelona. Spain.
