PR House, Barcelona / Guillem Carrera
The PR house is located in a slopy terrain which has the virtue to be localised in a fairly high topographic altitude, due to this, with visual orientation to the litoral mountain range, the urban center and…
Barcelona houses
Bioclimatic and Passive Restoration of a House in Barcelona
The building object of this rehabilitation is a single-family house between party walls built in Barcelona in 1942. In the urban fabric of the neighbourhood, typologies from the early 1900s and new buildings coexist.
El Teatro Residence in Barcelona / Cadaval & Solà-Morales
El Teatro Residence tries to respect to the maximum the original condition of the existing warehouse. Its structure is not modified, only reinforced. Its walls are not demolished just restored and the few new architectural elements …
Dwelling Refurbishment in the Barcelona’s Garcia Neighbourhood
We are commissioned for a 140 m2 dwelling refurbishment located on Verdi Street in the Barcelona’s Garcia neighbourhood. The structure of the house has one drawback: of the 16 pieces that make it up, only 5 are…
La Diana Apartment / CRÜ Studio
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…
Magarola House / Lagula Arquitectes
An intervention in an existing building forces the architect to take a position regarding the architectonical object. In this case, the pre-existing dwelling was heir of the local Modern Movement principles, typical of the Mediterranean coast, and…
Longitudinal House Built Between Two Party Walls
Project: Longitudinal House Architect: Josep Ferrando Bramona Architecture Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Photographs: Adrià Goula The historical quarter of Sant Cugat del Vallès, north of the city of Barcelona, is listed as a cultural heritage site, so
This Barcelona House Consists of Three Volumes Strongly Connected to a Garden
This Barcelona house was designed by Harquitectes for a couple who loves art and nature. Not so many jobs begin like this one, with an owners’ list of wishes and hopes for their new home.