House in Gracia, Barcelona
A renovation of a ground floor house of the early XX century in Gràcia, Barcelona, partly renovated a few years ago, with ceilings that hide a great height. We renovated the house for a young couple with two babies.
Although it was dark, its facades face to the street and the inner garden. The project partially disassemble the house and maintains structure and distribution: a new interior courtyard illuminates the ground floor and gives the kitchen some facade. We added a floor into the existing volume and dismantled part of the roof, pulling some facade back and making a terrace for bedrooms.
We have used a dry construction system, with a new floor of wooden beams, OSB boards, wood fiber insulation and wooden floor. The new facade is isolated from the outside with wood fiberboard. We take characteristc preexistences: interior woodwork and old tiles. The old tiles are in ground floor. In the first floor, which has been added, the floor is made of wood. In ground floor there are two bedrooms, the kitchen and dinning room, living room, one bathroom and a corridor.
All the tiles in the house were originally there. Most of them, those that are in the corridor and the bedrooms, are located at the same place. In the living room and the kitchen we designed “carpets” with some coulored existing tiles, and the rest of tiles(grey ones) are new. The tiles are from the earlier XXth century. They were often used in houses and apartments in Barcelona.
