Nook Architects has reduced the size of bedrooms in Caldrap, a flat in Barcelona, to make room for a spacious and versatile new living and dining space.

The home is located in an ageing high-rise in the city's Poble Sec neighbourhood.
With 67 square-metres of floor space, it was spacious enough to accommodate its new owners ? a family of three. Yet none of the rooms was big enough to allow its occupants to spend time together or to host guests.
They asked Nook Architects to design a new layout that would better suit their lifestyle.

"The owners were looking for a home for their family of three, in which the common space would be the main focus," explained the studio, which is led by Ana Garcia, Joan Cortés and Rubén F Berenguer. "With this in mind, it was decided to give the bedrooms and other spaces secondary importance, while ensuring their functional and storage needs were still met," said the architects.
"This important step allowed us to modify the existing layout and create a wide, open daytime area: an all-in-one living room, dining room and kitchen."

The new layout centres around a gallery-style space at one end of the home, featuring a row of traditional wooden-frame windows that face out over a verdant garden.
Nook expanded this space by relocating the bathroom to the other side of the home and opening it up to two adjacent rooms that were previously separate.

But rather than making the room completely open-plan, the architects ...