Apartment with high ceilings in Barcelona An interesting design of an apartment with high ceilings was developed by architects Anna & Eugeni Bach. The apartment is located in Barcelona, Spain.
The project involved the reconstruction of an apartment,located in the lively Eixample district, in a typical residential building built at the beginning of the 20th century. The area of the property is approximately 70 m². Initially, two rooms faced the street, and the rest were illuminated and ventilated by the spacious inner courtyard. This layout created many corridors and dark nooks. They did not carry any functional load and served only to connect the rooms. The new configuration provided for the preservation of two bedrooms adjacent to the facade wall of the house. This was the customer’s requirement. The living room, dining room, kitchen and study could be arranged on the other side, at the discretion of the architect. The space connected to the inner courtyard was too overloaded. The rooms had different purposes. The authors of the project proposed the following solution. The layout of the bedrooms was left unchanged. One large room was added to them, which could be used for any purpose. The high ceilings made it possible to design the kitchen as part of a single space. The far part of it forms a kind of attic, which can be used as an office or a guest room. This approach has its advantages. Firstly, it effectively uses the vertical volume of the apartment. Secondly, it provides access from the central part of the home to any room. The kitchen is especially worth mentioning, which is a compact module. There is free space between it and the ceiling, which once again emphasizes the openness of the central part of the apartment. This simple layout is adapted to the non-standard configuration of the apartment with its bathrooms and utility rooms. The authors of the project kept the small toilet located opposite the entrance. But they rebuilt the bathroom adjoining the master bedroom to use the exceptional height of the ceilings. The podium creates additional storage space. Plus, the architects won several square meters by installing a bathtub under the shower and combining both functions in one room.
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