Ohla Eixample Hotel, Barcelona Building Restoration, Images, Architects, Spanish Architecture
Ohla Eixample Hotel in Barcelona
New Catalan Accommodation Building – design by Estudi Isern Associats
6 Mar 2017
Ohla Eixample Hotel
Architects: Estudi Isern Associats

Location:
Ohla Eixample Hotel

All in all, it was not an easy task.
An anodyne office building from the 1970s with not enough free height between the floor structures but at the same time higher than the current law allows, constructed above railway arches which subjected it to an insufferably high level of vibration.

Ugly, too high, and at the same time, too low, and above all, unbearably noisy? what else can you ask for"

With the above three conditioning factors, the project was based around these three concepts: The technology: this allowed us to install some seismic shock absorbers to each pillar on the ground floor level, activated by hydraulic jacks. This system divided the building into two parts leaving everything at street level separate from the basement, thus achieving the comfort that a hotel requires.
The aesthetic: in the interior the project establishes a dialogue between the existent structure, which is left naked and exposed, and its use as a hotel, which is revealed in very high quality materials which do not go beyond the perimeters of each room.

Therefore, in spaces with concrete floors, metal pillars and ceiling vaults, revealed by the use of wood, ceramic and plaster, a d...