Excerpt: Ca na Riera by Atzur Arquitectura is an interior design project that involves renovating a house with an elongated and narrow plan. The house adapts to contemporary living by dividing it into two wooden boxes, allowing for maximum natural light and ventilation, and allowing for large, flexible common areas, ensuring maximum use of space. The home’s original elongated proportion is broken by the play of materiality and textures.
Project Description
[Text as submitted by architect] The project consists of the renovation of a flat in Barcelona’s Eixample. It is located on the chamfer, which explains its elongated and narrow plan, almost of corridor.
Before the intervention, the apartment had undergone multiple transformations. The original hydraulic flooring and Catalan vaulted roof had been covered by low-value materials. The proposal seeks to put them in value, rescuing the essence of the place.
In terms of distribution, the space adapts to the contemporary way of life and to the concrete needs of its inhabitants. The house is structured through two wooden boxes that delimit the most intimate spaces (the rooms), thereby achieving the maximum use of natural light and ventilation, as well as large and flexible common areas.
In addition, these boxes fulfill the function of storage, and in one of the cases, includes a high bed, in order to free the ground floor space for other required uses.
The strips occupied by the wooden furniture have a continuous pavement, while in the rest of the floor the original hydraulic has been preserved. This play of materiality and textures allows it to break with the elongated proportion that the housing originally presented.
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