This spectacular urban loft, discovered on Mi Casa,
is located in Barcelona, Spain, transformed to meet the needs of a young
couple. The home features an industrial style with purely decorativeelements
of beams, pipes, tall ceilings and artifice-free coatings. The home forms a
rectangular volume with only two windows distributed in a linear fashion.
Interior architects Jaume Rife and Ugo Giannoti devised a solution to customize
the space, locating the bedroom and bathroom within only a few meters from each
other.
The open plan concept unifies the living room, the dining room and the kitchen by
using the same oak wood flooring throughout and furniture with
simplicity of lines and volumes in two finishes: natural wood and white. The details
on steel architectural elements, lamps and decorative accessories emphasize
the industrial character of this reform.
One of the ideas carried out in the project consisted of
designing a metal cube to house the bathroom and locate the bedroom
on the top to save space. In this way, the bed, which is in view and which is
accessed by a vertical ladder, relies on the structure and maintains distance
sufficient from the ceiling blocks and wooden beams ceiling. Thus, all the
spaces are open and visually connected except for the toilet, which adds to
the loft aesthetic. A double door access preserves the inner life of the
bustle of the street while the opposite output focuses on a terrace, converted
into a downtown oasis. Varnished iron, steel, pine, oak, lacquer and fur
flooring is a perfect symbiosis of materials which has resulted in a young apartment with
a personal stamp, solved with industrial solutions.
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