Barcelona studio Parramon + Tahull has renovated a traditional apartment in the city's Gracia neighbourhood, adding birch plywood joinery and ceramic tiling to complement the building's original features.
The apartment is home to a family of four, which has lived there for several years and wanted to carry out a significant overhaul of the outdated interior.
Parramon + Tahull has renovated an apartment in Barcelona
The clients asked local architects Lluís Parramon and Emma Tahull to oversee the transformation of the space to provide an open living area and kitchen, along with separate bedrooms for each of their two daughters.
The apartment is located on the upper floor of a five-storey building dating from the 1900s. A previous renovation undertaken around 20 years ago had altered the layout and destroyed most of the original features. The studio added bespoke joinery including a small built-in desk
Parramon + Tahull began by removing all of the existing partition walls in order to create a brighter and more practical series of spaces within the compact floor plan.
The rearranged interior also provides plenty of usable storage and restores some of the original details, including wooden beams that had been painted white by the previous owners.
Terracotta tiles cover floors throughout the apartment
"We wanted to bring natural light into all the spaces and to achieve a sense of flowing, continuous space despite the limited surface area," Tahull told Dezeen.
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