Conversion of an old textile warehouse into an industrial loft in Barcelona (Spain) by Estudio Vilablanch.

Description
Vilablanch studio transforms an old textile warehouse into a loft with an industrial look, intentionally leaving insight into the elements that show the different stages that the building lived.
LOCATION AND ORIGIN
This magnific loft is situated on a principal floor of an old building in the center of Barcelona, just on the limit where the old wall of the city was located. At its origins, the building was used to serve the industrial textile, but in 1890 approximately the building suffered a transformation and turned into an apartment building with a modernist style. During this period the floors Nolla were included and, also, the polychrome coffered ceilings. The typical distribution appeared in the apartments, this meant, towards the street and the rear courtyard. When customers made their order to the Vilablanch studio, the space had been operating as a warehouse for many years. All the interior partitions had been removed, the cast-iron pillars were covered with concrete to fire them, the joists and vaults of the ceilings had been fireproof and covered with false ceilings, and the modernist pavements had been removed or covered with several overlapping layers of soil.
INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE PROJECT
The modernist stage of the building was impossible to recover in a coherent reading, as the modernist ceilings, doors, and floors had been destr...