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Long Flat

Long Flat

Barcelona, Spain

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Long Flat

Barcelona, Spain

Firm

Miel Arquitectos

Type

Residential › Apartment

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2025

SIZE

1000 sqft - 3000 sqft

BUDGET

$500K - 1M

A Boston family with roots in Shanghai is looking to build their dream: own a little piece of Barcelona to retire to one day, and in the meantime, escape as much as they can. A home that will stand the test of time because they still have a long way to go before they can jump the train.
An office that barely remember having been a home was the chosen one... everything still to be done, almost nothing to recover except for a century-old sink in the kitchen, the Nolla mosaic hidden under carpets, and a few plaster moldings as dormant witnesses to the bourgeois splendor of this late 19th-century neighborhood, the Eixample.
The chosen one is a floor that connects two very distinct areas: on one side, the Rambla of Catalunya, a bustling boulevard paved with fashion shops and restaurant terraces, an extension beyond the walls of the famous Las Ramblas; and on the other side, the inner courtyard of the block where lush gardens, sunny terraces, and private balconies ignore each other with pretended parsimony.
Long Flat begins with the dichotomy between its extremes to build an elegant dialogue.
The ensuite bedroom, the intimacy area, faces the courtyard; the living and dining room, the social area, faces the Rambla. As each of these worlds extends into the apartment, the "Long" is born to unite them, to connect them, a vibrant membrane, a vaporous filter that softens the bond between Yin and Yang.
The "Long", this benevolent dragon from Chinese mythology, glides between rooms, dissolving the marked structure of load-bearing walls, forming closets, and concealing installations. It delays access to the central bedrooms to create a placid entrance hall tempered by the colors of the specially designed stained-glass windows.
This lucky dragon becomes a bench, a shower, or a bar cabinet, and dresses its sinuous forms in oak slats, clay paintings, or tiles from La Bisbal.
Between the main and rear areas are a double bedroom for each child, a shared bathroom, a toilet (within smoked glasses and oak paneling the laundry and machine room are hidden), and finally the kitchen. The kitchen opens onto the living-dining room through three arches pierced in the wall that previously separated them, with a central island of almost 4m that is as helpful with culinary preparations as it is with those evening conversations over the occasional cocktail.
And those elements rescued from past lives are now revived with new uses: The Macael marble sink now presides over the toilet, the Nolla mosaic has become nightstands, the old conference table is now a celebration table, and the original doors have been relocated to the new rooms. In addition to the restoration of all these elements, we have combined the handcrafted construction of unique pieces such as the stained-glass windows, the cylindrical shower, and the bar cabinet.
All of them are accompanied by a family of warm materials and furniture that range from a palette of browns, ochres, and whites, with the clear objective of enduring the years until their owners enjoy them daily.

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