The intervention takes place in a building built in 1917, located in one of the few existing pedestrian passages in the upper part of Barcelona. In this passage, an attempt was made to test the compatibility of the English garden city model with the terraced house type.
The street façade of this existing architecture has been preserved, and it is undoubtedly the best testimonial reference from the time of construction.
When the restoration began, the house was in a dilapidated state, with only its essential structure preserved: façades, load-bearing walls and the Catalan vault staircase. Based on these elements, the interior space was redistributed. In the central corridor, there is the staircase on one side, from which all its surface finishes are changed. On the other side we find the kitchen and a dining room-office which is ventilated and illuminated through a small interior patio and the façade, respectively. In the area facing the garden, the old gallery attached to the façade has been removed. Through a sliding glass window, the living room and the dining room are spatially extended towards the back garden to the porch that closes the opposite end. The bedrooms are located on the ground floor. On the roof, the originally existing volume was restructured again, moving it to the north side to accommodate a swimming pool and a solarium on the south side, and leaving the back space as an auxiliary service roof.
