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Barcelona, Spain
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CASA TAU
Barcelona, Spain
Conversion of a workshop/warehouse from 1910 into a family dwelling in the Poblenou district of Barcelona. The home is located in one of a series of terraced structures originally built for industrial and commercial purposes. Over time, these buildings have been transformed into homes through ad hoc interventions.
The morphology of this residence is atypical of homes in Barcelona. It takes the form of a high, single nave with a slanted gabled roof supported by wooden trusses and beams, anchored atop brick dividing walls and façades. It contains a loft comprised of a light metal and wood substructure which was used for storage, with no natural ventilation or light.
The owners’ goal was to create a comfortable, functional and simple family home, with an open floor plan and lots of natural light; a place where living and teleworking are a compatible reality.
Thanks to the possibilities held by the space itself, due to its height, the absence of intermediate load-bearing elements and a roof that could serve as a third façade, the loft became the focal point of the entire project. The intervention at this level involved consolidating its structure and enhancing its lighting and ventilation, rendering it inhabitable. On the one hand, it was reinforced with new steel beams fitted atop the two load-bearing dividing walls. On the other, the living conditions were improved by installing new skylights on the slanted roof and separating its perimeter from that of the surrounding nave, creating its own interior façades which open up into the main nave.
While the composition of the main façade remains unchanged, the project did involve modifying the rear façade. Due to the limited number of windows and doors in the original design, a large opening was created to connect the home to the exterior courtyard in the interior of the city block.
The roof, façades and dividing walls were acoustically and thermally insulated to make the residence more comfortable and enhance its overall energy efficiency.
As part of the project, the home’s shell was stripped bare, integrating the original structure and modifying the location of the wood enclosures and tile floors to suit the new layout. This same logic was used with all new elements, the loft’s structure remains exposed and all woodwork has been left in its natural state. Continuous and neutral solutions were applied to the remaining floors and vertical surfaces. As for the colour scheme and materials used in the project, they derive from the pre-existing materials, with brick walls and wood.
The result is a suspended volume which slots into the pre-existing enclosure, creating empty spaces that lend the interior a heightened sense of airiness. This interplay of volumes makes it possible to naturally ventilate and illuminate the home’s rooms and free up the remaining space to showcase the pre-existing structure and materials, creating a bright, well-ventilated, spacious and functional home in which its origins are exalted.
The morphology of this residence is atypical of homes in Barcelona. It takes the form of a high, single nave with a slanted gabled roof supported by wooden trusses and beams, anchored atop brick dividing walls and façades. It contains a loft comprised of a light metal and wood substructure which was used for storage, with no natural ventilation or light.
The owners’ goal was to create a comfortable, functional and simple family home, with an open floor plan and lots of natural light; a place where living and teleworking are a compatible reality.
Thanks to the possibilities held by the space itself, due to its height, the absence of intermediate load-bearing elements and a roof that could serve as a third façade, the loft became the focal point of the entire project. The intervention at this level involved consolidating its structure and enhancing its lighting and ventilation, rendering it inhabitable. On the one hand, it was reinforced with new steel beams fitted atop the two load-bearing dividing walls. On the other, the living conditions were improved by installing new skylights on the slanted roof and separating its perimeter from that of the surrounding nave, creating its own interior façades which open up into the main nave.
While the composition of the main façade remains unchanged, the project did involve modifying the rear façade. Due to the limited number of windows and doors in the original design, a large opening was created to connect the home to the exterior courtyard in the interior of the city block.
The roof, façades and dividing walls were acoustically and thermally insulated to make the residence more comfortable and enhance its overall energy efficiency.
As part of the project, the home’s shell was stripped bare, integrating the original structure and modifying the location of the wood enclosures and tile floors to suit the new layout. This same logic was used with all new elements, the loft’s structure remains exposed and all woodwork has been left in its natural state. Continuous and neutral solutions were applied to the remaining floors and vertical surfaces. As for the colour scheme and materials used in the project, they derive from the pre-existing materials, with brick walls and wood.
The result is a suspended volume which slots into the pre-existing enclosure, creating empty spaces that lend the interior a heightened sense of airiness. This interplay of volumes makes it possible to naturally ventilate and illuminate the home’s rooms and free up the remaining space to showcase the pre-existing structure and materials, creating a bright, well-ventilated, spacious and functional home in which its origins are exalted.
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