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Barcelona. 110 Rooms is a flexible housing block by Maio

The Spanish studio has realised a building in which the apartments can be expanded or reduced, in order to answer to future needs of its inhabitants.

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  • 22 January 2018
  • Barcellona
  • Maio
  • 2.795 mq
  • edificio residenziale
  • 2016

This residential building by Maio has been designed as a system of 110 rooms which can be used as desired. Each apartment could be potentially expanded or reduced, adding or subtracting rooms, in order to answer to future needs of its inhabitants. With that flexibility in mind, rooms are similar in size eliminating any type of spatial hierarchy and program predetermination.

Fig.1 Maio, 110 Rooms – Collective Housing at Provença Street, Barcelona, 2016
Fig.2 Maio, 110 Rooms – Collective Housing at Provença Street, Barcelona, 2016
Fig.3 Maio, 110 Rooms – Collective Housing at Provença Street, Barcelona, 2016
Fig.4 Maio, 110 Rooms – Collective Housing at Provença Street, Barcelona, 2016
Fig.5 Maio, 110 Rooms – Collective Housing at Provença Street, Barcelona, 2016
Fig.6 Maio, 110 Rooms – Collective Housing at Provença Street, Barcelona, 2016
Fig.7 Maio, 110 Rooms – Collective Housing at Provença Street, Barcelona, 2016
Fig.8 Maio, 110 Rooms – Collective Housing at Provença Street, Barcelona, 2016
Fig.9 Maio, 110 Rooms – Collective Housing at Provença Street, Barcelona, 2016
Maio, 110 Rooms – Collective Housing at Provença Street, ground floor axonometric view
Maio, 110 Rooms – Collective Housing at Provença Street, collage
Maio, 110 Rooms – Collective Housing at Provença Street, elevations
Maio, 110 Rooms – Collective Housing at Provença Street, ground floor plan
Maio, 110 Rooms – Collective Housing at Provença Street, rooms
Maio, 110 Rooms – Collective Housing at Provença Street, conceptual collage
Maio, 110 Rooms – Collective Housing at Provença Street, ground floor diagram
Maio, 110 Rooms – Collective Housing at Provença Street, section
Maio, 110 Rooms – Collective Housing at Provença Street, type plan
Maio, 110 Rooms – Collective Housing at Provença Street, plan variations

Each floor contains 20 rooms, and initially, each floor is divided as a set of 4 apartments of 5 rooms each where rooms are connected among them, so no corridor is needed. A kitchenette is placed in the middle acting as the centre, while the other rooms can be used as bedrooms, living rooms, etc. This flexibility is able due to the position of bathrooms, where all installations are placed as points for supply. For the ground floor, the Spanish studio recovers the popular language of old Eixample’s halls, where, through furniture and large habitable objects, the space was arranged to house different uses. Here, these furniture pieces are transformed into marble volumes in the middle of a large open space, where it literally rains allowing to understand the hall as an extension of the street.

Maio, 110 Rooms – Collective Housing at Provença Street, Barcelona, 2016
  • 110 Rooms. Collective Housing at Provença Street
  • Barcelona
  • housing
  • Maio – María Charneco Llanos, Anna Puigjaner Barberá, Alfredo Lérida Horta, Guillermo López Ibáñez
  • Miguel Bernat, Núria Ortigosa
  • Gaspar Alloza Ginés, Vanesa Solano Martín
  • Beatriz Borque + Maio
  • Gaspar Alloza Ginés, Vanesa Solano Martín
  • Font i Armengol 
  • Masala Consultors
  • 2,795 sqm
  • 2016
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