The project takes place in a long, narrow and stately apartment whose façade connects to the access street via an elegant bow-window and to a large but not very attractive interior courtyard through a gallery. In between, 140 square meters to resolve more or less conventional housing requirements.

© Jose Hevia

Architects: RAS Arquitectura

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Engineering: Mares Ingenieros

Structure: Diagonal Estructuras

Client: Private commission

Area: 140.0 sqm

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Jose Hevia, Courtesy of RAS Arquitectura

© Jose Hevia

The project takes place in a long, narrow and stately apartment whose façade connects to the access street via an elegant bow-window and to a large but not very attractive interior courtyard through a gallery. In between, 140 square meters to resolve more or less conventional housing requirements.
© Jose Hevia

© Jose Hevia

Two key strategies drive the design as a whole. The first is that there are no hallways between rooms; they connect directly via an enfilade of sorts. This gives rise to a series of intermediary spaces that lack a defined code or function, which transforms them into potential play, reading, storage rooms, etc. These spaces which serve as a backbone to the dwelling don?t e...