House BSP 20 is a stunning brick apartment located in Barcelona, Spain, designed in 2021 by Raúl Sánchez Architects.

Description
This complex project began 8 years ago, going through all kinds of situations: squats, regulatory disagreements, changes in use, slow and complicated work…although the client’s desire to leave the walls with exposed brick and use hydraulic mosaic (the cliché of Barcelona) remained unalterable. In addition, the requirements were to convert this small building located in the Borne district of Barcelona, ????from the end of the 19th century and with 4 floors (but barely 20sqm per floor), into a place where to be able to work and spend short stays in their visits to Barcelona, ????although, along these 8 years, the personal and family situation of the client has changed, to which the project has adapted. The original situation of the property was in ruins, with very damaged floor slabs, weak stairs, and parts of them demolished. Added to this was the need to adapt the building to current regulations, which made it practically impossible from the start to reuse the interior, proceeding to completely demolish the building, maintaining only the facades and dividing walls, and the roof slab (not the stair tower, which was rebuilt).
The construction process, slow and complex, at least allowed decisions to be made as the essence of the estate was revealed with the demolitions. Thus, once all the floors slabs had been d...