Golden wardrobe forms focal point of The Magic Box Apartment in Spain
A shiny brass wardrobe that's meant to resemble a precious jewellery box features in this apartment near Barcelona designed by Raúl Sánchez Architects.
The Magic Box Apartment is set within a two-storey home in the town of Viladecans and is occupied by a married couple and their two young daughters.
The husband's parents live on the first floor, while his grandparents used to live on the ground floor.
When they sadly passed away, the husband made the decision to turn the 110-square-metre lower level of the home into an apartment for his own family, allowing him to stay close to his parents upstairs.
Raúl Sánchez Architects, which is based nearby in Barcelona, was tasked with carrying out the refurbishment works.
The practice decided not to make any major changes to the floor plan of the home, which is split in half by a longitudinal structural wall. This wall instead became the "backbone" of The Magic Box apartment, separating the sleeping quarters from the living rooms.
One large room has been turned into bedrooms for the daughters. In place of a traditional partition wall, a jewellery box-style wardrobe divides the two rooms. It rises up just over two metres and is clad entirely in panels of shiny golden brass.
The girls can slip between each other's rooms using the "secret passageway" in the middle of the wardrobe, a feature which the practice included to "increase the spatial experience and interior complexity".
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