Apartment Transformation: Brotherly Love in Barcelona - Remodelista
Two brothers living halfway around the world from each another, one in Hong Kong and the other in London, wanted to create a shared vacation house in Barcelona, the city where they grew up. Photography by Jose Hevia Blach via Yatzer. Nonplussed, the architects maximized the double-height space and fit these in efficiently along the perimeter of the room. The bedrooms are just big enough for sleeping. Built-in wooden louvers can be opened or closed according to sleep requirements. The apartment’s front door opens onto a brass-glazed entry with a balcony on top. To differentiate between the brothers’ private spaces, the tile pattern is graded in color from green at one end to red at the other. The two-story wooden bedroom unit works like a miniature building within the apartment. The wood-lined interiors create cozy sleeping chambers. An overall look at the apartment, viewed from the balcony. The other brother’s bedroom sits above the kitchen, and it too has a balcony that leads to its own bathroom. The moveable stairs to this bedroom also function as library stairs. The dining room table, placed at the apex of the apartment, appears to be twice as long in the mirror’s reflection. In the shared spaces, the reds and greens in the floor tiles are more evenly mixed. The distinctive triangular form of the apartment building recalls the Flatiron building in New York City. Image by David Kohn Architects. A diagrammatic sketch of how the colors in the tile floor change gradually across the apartment. For more Catalan design, see Midcentury Modern in Barcelona and Let There Be Light: A Pair of Flats in Barcelona Transformed. And on Gardenista, visit A Tiny Glass Studio in Barcelona.