Redesign of a nineteenth-century apartment in Barcelona, Honey Architects

The old floor of the nineteenth century, centrally located in the Eixample district of Barcelona, has been refurbished by the study Miel Architects. Built on an innovative layout, the architects have created an oblique line that “breaks” the former distribution compartmentalized and opens new connections, both spatial and visual.
The 105 m2 apartment complex had a plant, as is usual in these ancient stories, defined as a series of disconnected, isolated rooms and patios. Miguel Angel Borras Architects and Elodie Grammont, Honey Architects, have achieved this structure dematerialize oblique creating a corridor to connect all the rooms between them.
The new layout of the floor along the diagonal axis vertebra, explained by two gold coated sockets that frame the new hall in height. New spaces have been converted and opened unexpected visual originating in the main room, the nerve center of the house. All spaces are now visually connected among themselves and with the street and the old structure of small rooms has disappeared.
To give more light into space, has been painted entirely white, although they have recovered elements recall the origin of the floor and give personality: gilded moldings in the living room, wooden beams, or recovered hydraulic mosaic paving ladder the loft in the lounge as a magic carpet.