A spacious family home in a building in Gracia, where the owners owned two apartments one on top of the other, ZEST was asked to create a spacious, welcoming family home.

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Architects: Zest Architecture

Location: Gràcia, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Project Team: Co Govers and Joana Ramalhete

Area: 277.0 sqm

Project Year: 2014

Photographs: Lluís Casals

Construction: Construccions Edinou, sl

Steel Work: Germans Turró, sl

Engineers: Portet

Kitchen: Bulthaup

Wood Work: Rocas

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From the architect. A spacious family home in a building in Gracia, where the owners owned two apartments one on top of the other, ZEST was asked to create a spacious, welcoming family home.
© Lluís Casals

The brief included the creation of both a dedicated music room, suitable for small concerts of chamber music, and a library and study.

Plan 1

When we discovered that the building had once upon a time been a factory and that underneath the modern finishes and false ceilings the skeleton of the old vaulted structure still existed, the direction of the project soon became clear. We stripped the apartments from head to toe, to make use of the height of the original spaces.

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