Project · Flat renovation · Esquerra de l’Eixample (Barcelona)
Renovating a 60 m² flat in l’Esquerra Baixa: goodbye to the corridor
New floor plan: the kitchen takes over the old corridor and opens onto the living room.
60 m²
Area
Flat in a 1960s building.
€22,000
Construction budget
New layout, finishes and services.
18 m²
Living-dining room
With an extra window onto the terrace.
0
Corridors
Space recovered for living.
The brief
Gaining space in an outdated flat
The flat is in a mid-1960s building with load-bearing masonry walls and one-way reinforced concrete slabs. Its layout had become outdated and the clients, a company, wanted to modernise it.
With space as the guiding criterion, the design focuses on giving more area to the living, dining and kitchen zone and on removing circulation space.
Project data
The living area
The kitchen takes over the corridor
The partition separating it from the living room is removed.
The kitchen moves into what used to be the main corridor and the partition between it and the living room is removed, adding that area to the living space. The living-dining room grows to about 18 m² and gains an extra window opening directly onto the outdoor terrace. The entrance hall also grows and becomes the anteroom to the kitchen.
The bathroom
Same size, better fit
A large courtyard window where the utility room used to be.
The bathroom keeps its size but shifts slightly to fit the plan better, gaining a large window onto the inner courtyard in the space once taken by the utility room. Enlarging the entrance hall removes the corridor altogether. All finishes and services are renewed to the standard of a newly built home.
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