Spanish designer Isern Serra has refurbished his Barcelona studio, including curved partitions, arched openings and cabinets stuffed with inspirational objects that give the area a homely really feel.
The design for the studio goals to make staff really feel “actually comfortable, comfy and free to create” by producing an environment that promotes inspiration and reflection, Serra defined.
“The idea of our Estudio-Casa displays our imaginative and prescient for a piece atmosphere that’s deeply human, toasty and welcoming,” Serra stated.
“Our intention was to create a spot that not solely fulfils the purposeful wants of a studio but in addition speaks to who we’re and what makes us really feel at house.”
The studio, which is located on the fourth flooring of a Nineteen Sixties industrial constructing within the Poblenou district, eschews the established unyielding workplace structure in favour of areas knowledgeable by home dwelling areas.
The inside is separated into two primary zones by a change in flooring stage. Non-public areas and facilities are located on a raised platform near the doorway, with the workspace positioned near full-height home windows on the far finish of the area.
Arched openings on both aspect of the doorway present entry to a gathering room on one aspect and a tunnel-like hall reverse that accommodates the toilet and storage space.
The assembly room contains a cream-coloured lacquered desk with a single cylindrical help made by carpenter Fusteria Vidal. A round opening that appears out onto the workspace creates a characteristic above the adjoining couch space.
The hall throughout from the assembly room options an arched opening reduce into the tunnel-like wall that gives entry to the toilet. An alabaster lamp by design studio Siete Formas illuminates the area, which culminates in a storage room hidden behind a curtain.
Past the assembly room, a curved wall merges with a platform that varieties the bottom for an L-shaped couch. The raised concrete floor additionally accommodates a Kentia palm that provides greenery to the lounge space.
“The dwelling area has a really placid and monochromatic base, making it a cushty place and refuge in a office, the place the objects that adorn it give it a creative and modern twist,” stated Serra.
The platform additionally accommodates the kitchen and eating space, organised round a rounded desk with cylindrical legs made by Fusteria Vidal.
The kitchen items are fabricated from dim walnut wooden and topped with a Caliza stone worktop with a roughly hewn edge. A Moon lamp from Italian model Davide Groppi offers a focus above the eating desk.
A nook of the wall on the far finish of the kitchen incorporates a petite curved opening that glows when the lightweight is turned on within the materials library behind this wall.
A single step down separates the dwelling space from the primary workspace, housing a pair of sculptural concrete tables which might be every 5 meters lengthy. Their tops are cantilevered from sturdy cylindrical legs, giving the impression of floating surfaces.
“The design of the desk was very critical to the venture as entire as they’re primary items that maintain the area collectively,” Serra added.
“We needed to provide the sense of lightness and oneiric design by a cloth that’s often very ponderous. As they’re the identical microcement as the remainder of the area, they completely float on the finish of the area.”
Floating cabinets positioned on the partitions behind every of the tables are used to show books, supplies, lamps and different objects.
Along with functioning as a office, Estudio-Casa will host a variety of public occasions together with talks and exhibitions. The inside due to this fact contains a revolving array of artworks and design objects that add character to the areas.
Isern Serra based his eponymous studio in 2008. His strategy combines pared-back modern varieties with a playful Mediterranean perspective, leading to areas that usually show a dreamlike high quality.
The studio’s earlier work contains an idea retailer with a monochromatic pink inside based mostly on a pc rendering, and a minimalist workplace for a digital artist that gained petite office inside of the yr at Dezeen Awards 2023.
