In white, around the three only partition walls that where kept from the old building, have been arranged the new building’s programme. The first partition wall, that separated the bedroom from the living room, has been doubled to reinforce and to avoid the possible bendings in the central part of the flat. The second one, that separated the dining room with the kitchen, has been drilled by light underpinnings made of steel, overlapping transversely the group of closed programmes. In the third one, that finally separated the kitchen from the bathroom, reducing the height, allowed a kind and useful circulation in the flat, distinguishing the public areas from the private ones.
The uncoated bricks from the dividing wall have been reappeared to close and delimit vertically the content, sometimes emphasizing some possible overlapping programmes interpretations, sometimes contributing to give more profundity to the narrowest rooms. The hydraulic mosaics pavement found in the apartment where also relocated to point the new wet zones such as the kitchen, the dining room and the bathroom. In this way, the old wooden doors were restored with some remnants of wood founded and they’ve generated new ways of opening and closing spaces.
Bondietti House, El Poble-sec, Barcelona, Spain
Program: apartment
Architects: Joan Casals Pañella
Cost: 550€/sqm
Area: 45 sqm
Completion: 2015