Traditional Style House Transformed into a Modern Home in Barcelona

Traditional Style House Transformed into a Modern Home in Barcelona

Project: Traditional Style House La Diana
Architects: CRƜ Studio
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Project Year 2017
Photography: AdriĆ  Goula Photo
Text by RƄS Studio

La Diana is the exercise of linking visually, volumetrically and functionally two independent and different entities: a commercial space on the ground floor and an apartment on the first floor. The architectural strategy was based on drilling the existing slab creating a large enough vacuum to activate this relationship in section and where the vertical communication is deployed through a light stairway tangent to the existing wall.

Traditional Style House Transformed into a Modern Home in Barcelona 12

This stairway fragments into two bodies to offer a more human staircase on the ground floor through a 2,20 m metal and porous platform that acts as an intermediate landing and, at the same time, segments the living room, the dinning room and the kitchen. It is because it was a ground floor that the problem of privacy had to be resolved by recreating the access faƧade generating a semi-exterior patio as a filter between the street and the living place.

Traditional Style House Transformed into a Modern Home in Barcelona 1

On the first floor, the night program is organized around the double space. The perimetral enclosures are solved with packages that include cabinets, access room doors and glass top cards that allow bringing natural light from the faƧades to the vacuum of the stairs.

Traditional Style House Transformed into a Modern Home in Barcelona 2

The materialization is answering the desire to recover and/or emphasize the original condition of the traditional style house. A piece of natural terracotta is placed on a running board as the pavement and the walls are stripped to expose the original factory work with all its defects and textures. On the first floor, a perimeter tape of plaster mortar finishes the contact with the joists causing a sense of controlled domesticity of how architecture is seeking to react on a human level.

Traditional Style House Transformed into a Modern Home in Barcelona 3

Traditional Style House Transformed into a Modern Home in Barcelona 4

Traditional Style House Transformed into a Modern Home in Barcelona 5

Traditional Style House Transformed into a Modern Home in Barcelona 6

Traditional Style House Transformed into a Modern Home in Barcelona 7

Traditional Style House Transformed into a Modern Home in Barcelona 8

Traditional Style House Transformed into a Modern Home in Barcelona 9

Traditional Style House Transformed into a Modern Home in Barcelona 10

Traditional Style House Transformed into a Modern Home in Barcelona 12

Traditional Style House Transformed into a Modern Home in Barcelona 13

Traditional Style House Transformed into a Modern Home in Barcelona 14

Traditional Style House Transformed into a Modern Home in Barcelona 15

Traditional Style House Transformed into a Modern Home in Barcelona 16

Traditional Style House Transformed into a Modern Home in Barcelona 17

Traditional Style House Transformed into a Modern Home in Barcelona 17

Scroll to Top