Local studio Architecture Office Claudia Raurell has replaced a dilapidated townhouse in Barcelona with a concrete home that mimics its original footprint.
Named Villain House, the home incorporates the existing front facade, which Architecture Office Claudia Raurell said was the only salvageable part of the structure.
The new volume has a blocky, straw-coloured concrete structure that almost exactly matches the footprint of the original building.
Architecture Office Claudia Raurell has completed a home in Barcelona
"Only the main wall to the street, which is totally opaque, [was retained]," studio founder Claudia Raurell told Dezeen.
"The rest of the structure was in very bad condition, so we replicated the exact same existing volume, due to urban planning reasons and also because the project believed and worked with the image of permanence, so we didn't want to deform the actual morphology and scale of the preexistence." Located on the northern slope of Barcelona's Montjuic, the home occupies a trapezoidal site which is bordered on both sides by pale pink-toned party walls.
The structure replaces an old townhouse
One of the only differences between the old and new structure is the addition of a ground-floor void between the existing earth-toned facade and a new glass wall that runs parallel to it.
This forms a front courtyard that is sheltered from the street outside, lined with pale terracotta-coloured tiles on the floors and walls.
Large windows floo...