Description

Access:

Patio; vertical point access, two and four units per floor; exterior stairwell connects two volumes in the courtyard; diverse spatial design of the path to the flats makes it possible to experience the complex relationships to the neighborhood and transition areas.

Interior space:

The small apartments house the kitchen in the entrance area in order to reduce the area for circulation as much as possible. The bathrooms and toilets are located in the center of the units, which does not usually receive natural light. The living spaces benefit from the surprising, spatially diverse prospects into Barcelona’s densely built old town.

Exterior space:

Loggias and balconies along the living rooms project like bay windows into the urban space and set the tone for the urban planning of the neighborhood.

Morphology:

The project includes the integration of three volumes into a densely built urban context: the renovation of an existing building and new construction of two buildings on the Plaza Sant Agustí Vell. This sensitive, small-scale urban-planning intervention into the fabric of the old town creates a dovetailing of the spaces into the urban context thanks to the complex forms of the plastered, horizontally stratified volumes.

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Originally published in: Peter Ebner, Eva Herrmann, Roman Höllbacher, Markus Kuntscher, Ulrike Wietzorrek, Typology +: Innovative Residential Architecture, Birkhäuser, 2009.