Bonell+Do?riga carries out understated overhaul of Walden 7 apartment - architecture and design

Bonell+Do?riga carries out understated overhaul of Walden 7 apartment



Architecture studio Bonell+Do?riga has revamped an apartment in Ricardo Bofill's Walden 7 in Barcelona, dotting its interior with colourful geometric elements that reference the building's facade.
Located just outside of Barcelona in the town of Sant Just Desvern, Walden 7 is a residential block designed by Spanish architect Ricard Bofill.
It was constructed in 1975 and comprises 18 stepped, rust-red towers that are arranged around four teal-blue courtyards.

Barcelona-based Bonell+Do?riga was approached to renovate one of the 446 apartments inside the building, which the studio says is enjoying a renaissance.
"It's a work of architecture which, after decades of oblivion, is currently reviving due to its photogenic presence in social media," said the studio.
"But the clients are not from the design or marketing world ? they know and appreciate the architecture of the building because they are from the city, but are always kind of surprised and amused when they run into people taking pictures and changing clothes in the middle of the public corridors," it told Dezeen.
"We never talked about terms such as 'Instagrammable' architecture."

The apartment ? which takes over part of the building's 12th and 13th floors ? has a simple interior scheme that features quiet pops of colour.
Most partitions have been knocked through on the lower level to form a singular, open-plan living space.

Chunky, sand-coloured plinths have been set in the corner of th...
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