Terrazzo grout made from crushed tiles and a long spruce plywood storage wall feature in this renovated Barcelona flat by Spanish firm TEd'A.
The apartment provides a Barcelona base for Laia and Biel Huguet, owners of Mallorcan tile brand Huguet, in the city's Gracia district.
Its 65-square-metre interior is arranged across three consecutive rooms, with a view onto the street at one end of the apartment, and a view onto a central courtyard at the other.

TEd'A founders Irene Pérez and Jaume Mayol aimed to open up the interior of the property, so that light could penetrate the darker central space.
By inserting a long spruce plywood storage wall that snakes through the space and intersects all three rooms, the architects were able to create six smaller interconnected spaces linked by archways and doorways between the rooms and through the storage wall.
"This new [storage wall] element organises the space and physically and visually connects the entire floor from one end to the other," they explained.
"As a new and autonomous element, it is introduced into the house of Laia and Biel almost as a sculpture, independent and exempt from the perimeter that contains it."

The first space is split into a kitchen and dining room, the central windowless space is split into a living room and bathroom, and the third space houses a bedroom and study. A small 15-metre-squared terrace is accessed from the dining room.
Sliding doors with textured glass panels and in...