Font6 Apt

The apartment is located in a quiet and green passageway beside the Sagrada Familia, in an old modernist building in the Eixample district.

Despite the original layout, full of partitions and small room, the brief revolved around the main idea of turning the house into a wunderkammer, a quiet retreat full of emotionally charged objects, with at least one guest room beside the main one.

The challenge has been translated into the will to maintain the period elements that could be saved, without renouncing to a flat with a distinct contemporary character and as clear and diaphanous as possible.

The simple idea was to empty the apartment and insert a lacquered, wooden-clad, groove-panelled blue box in the middle of the floor plan, modulating and redefining the spaces around it in a more architectonic way.

The box contains a bathroom, designed more as a relaxing and intimate area, as a Sancta Sanctorum of the entire apartment, and its entrance has been hidden and camouflaged between the doors of the closets constituting the entire external facade of the box. The box inner skin is a very warm shade of pink micro-cement, meant to contrast with its cold exterior tones.

From the outside of its concealed doors, this warm coating can be slightly glimpsed and deduced only from the living room through a circular funnelled-glass window, placed above the kitchen counter (another element that generates both privacy and curiosity). A bespoke sink cabinet, a custom-built, curved-shaped, angular mirror and a globe lamp complete the special relax room.