Spanish studio Raúl Sánchez Architects has renovated the PSM21 home outdoors of Barcelona, including an inside staircase to show two separate residences into one dwelling with vibrant particulars.
The studio aimed to show the properties, within the coastal city of Castelldefels, right into a single 250-square-metre home that takes benefit of its sea views.
“The reference to the views, that are hanging, are paramount within the challenge, so the structure tries to attach all of the areas with the outside, however with out simplifying the area, creating, on the identical time, a convoluted indoors dwelling,” Raúl Sánchez Architects founder advised Raúl Sánchez advised Dezeen.
The studio initially renovated the higher condominium and can start engaged on the decrease ground subsequent 12 months. To attach the 2 flooring of the constructing, which beforehand had separate entrances, the studio added an inside staircase.
“The novel necessities of the novel household didn’t match the prevailing structure,” Sánchez stated.
“The 2 most important storeys of the home have been break up and had no connection, and now the novel home shall be one solely home, with a novel connection staircase.”
On the higher ground, a yellow entrance corridor welcomes guests to the home and leads into an open-plan kitchen and lounge.
Right here, a blue-painted quantity, which the architect calls the “kitchen dice”, holds the kitchen in addition to a miniature storage room and the interior staircase.
On its different facet, doorways result in the ground’s three bedrooms, every of which is linked to one of many dwelling’s two bogs. The bedrooms are separated from the dwelling areas by a hallway lined with cupboards.
To create curiosity within the area, the architect labored with quite a lot of completely different textures and vivid colors.
“A lot of the atmosphere is whitish, however there are completely different supplies giving that whitish, from paint, to white wooden, white tiles or white microcement, so the feel is all the time including a special character,” Sánchez defined.
“After which, some color spots, highlighting, for instance, the kitchen dice – which additionally conceals a wardrobe and the staircase, to be accomplished within the subsequent second stage – that organizes the circulation round it; or within the bedrooms, with a really attribute tinted wooden in unfamiliar colors for the wooden, which is one thing I actually take pleasure in, to exploit unfamiliar colors with acquainted supplies.”
Various kinds of metals and stones add extra tactile particulars.
“There are additionally metals, as within the doorways, mixing brass and chrome steel, or stones, just like the crimson onyx and the granite within the kitchen and island,” Sánchez stated.
“The materiality is wealthy in textures and color, so the expertise of the home, now from a extra tactile strategy, is admittedly wealthy and convoluted.”
Raúl Sánchez Architects additionally aimed for the home to be energy-efficient, utilizing warmth pumps to regulate its tempertaure.
“All facade partitions have been handled to enhance their insulation and power efficiency, each in stable sections and within the novel home windows, whereas a novel aerothermal system meets the climatization wants in a extremely environment friendly method,” Sánchez stated.
“A lot of the supplies come from native suppliers, lowering the carbon footprint of the development.”
When full, the decrease ground will include a examine area, extra leisure areas and visitor lodging.
Outdoors the house, stone-clad steps lead all the way down to a backyard and pool space, whereas a former warehouse on the backside of the constructing was was a “sauna pavilion”.
The studio was named Rising inside design studio of the 12 months at Dezeen Awards 2022. Not too long ago accomplished tasks by the studio embrace the renovation of a Barcelona condominium with a gold-leaf wall and a townhouse with a four-storey spiral staircase.
Challenge credit:
Structure: Paolo Burattini, Flavia Thalisa Gütermann, Dimitris Louizos
Engineering: Marés ingenieros
Carpentry: Vallés carpintería
Metallic works: Metalware
Alluminium and glass works: Jaume Costa
