Madrazo 54

This apartment renovation by Bonell+Dòriga features a series of small interventions that establish a connection with the old architecture and preserve its primitive character.

Originally built in 1973, the Frégoli building was an experimental housing project by Esteve Bonell intended for and paid by a community of young people with artistic and cultural backgrounds. The unconventional domestic space was defined by the visual connection between the different rooms, which were laid out in two levels.

Rather than a radical transformation of the spaces, the project of the renovation of one of its apartments aims to preserve and recover its primitive character, to improve its energetic efficiency and to create a series of small interventions that establish a connection with the old architecture. By way of a game of mirrors and openings, the kitchen becomes part of the sequence of spaces that defines the dwelling. Even if it preserves its separate identity, it communicates and participates of the living and dining room, while it also allows natural light in.

A bookshelf on the upper floor references the flexibility of the original project of the seventies, which presented the possibility of losing or gaining rooms with the movement of walls. This involves a mobile organization of the vertical supports, adaptable to the needs of the users, on which the horizontal shelves rest. The result is an open structural system, constantly redefinable, the attractive of which lays on an ordered disorder, or rather a disordered order.