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Allaround Lab . photos: © José Hevia

Nàpols is about the rehabilitation of a small apartment built in 1910 in the Eixample district of Barcelona. This project is part of the theoretical and practical research titled “Projecting the Void”, which advocates for transforming the conception of housing, moving away from considering it as a commodity defined by its market value to understanding it as an infrastructure defined by its potential for use. Continue reading Allaround Lab

Allaround Lab . photos: © José Hevia

“Alegría” is a small-sized penthouse rehabilitation project in Esplugues de Llobregat, an urban hub within the Barcelona metropolitan area. The key goal of the proposal is the seamless integration of interior and exterior spaces. To accomplish this, the design concept involves liberating the façade of any obstructions, thus allowing an unimpeded view of the terrace from every room in the dwelling. Continue reading Allaround Lab

AllAround Lab . photos: © José Hevia

Ávila is a project that reinterprets what was originally an open-plan warehouse located in the Poble Nou neighborhood of Barcelona to turn it into a 120m2 multifunctional and habitable space. The proposal aims to carry out this transformation using what we call “the minimum means to inhabit a place”, namely, storage, humid spaces and circulations, considering the entire free volume and not just its surface. Continue reading AllAround Lab

Allaround Lab . photos: © José Hevia

After freeing the space from the existing partitions, we built up a freestanding box that contains the wet program and the storage space of the house and works as a filter between day-time and night-time areas. Thus, this volume allows a continuous reading of the interior space while having the ability to segregate it. Continue reading Allaround Lab

Allaround Lab . photos: © José Hevia

The clients, a young couple, commissioned us this project with the sole premise that they wanted a space that was as open as possible and that, at the same time, it could be compartmentalized and become two differentiated areas, to be able to work and perform different tasks throughout the day simultaneously without bothering each other. Continue reading Allaround Lab