Aribau Apartment in Barcelona, Renovated Home Interior, Spanish Architecture Images

Aribau Apartment in Barcelona

Renovated Residential Development in Spain design by YLAB Arquitectos

13 Jul 2017

Aribau Apartment in Barcelona, Catalunya

Design: YLAB Arquitectos

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Aribau Apartment in Barcelona Design

The client, an English family in love with Barcelona and its friendly atmosphere, acquired the apartment as a holiday home. They wanted to change the distribution and preserve as many traditional elements as possible, while introducing contemporary and elegant new elements. The apartment offers a comfortable, hotel like atmosphere and allocates a spacious living room and three bedroom suites. Therefore, a complete redistribution including structural changes was needed.

The design looks for the contrast between the traditional elements, serving as a base, and the contemporary custom made new furniture pieces that are layered on top of the original space while keeping a distance with it.

Functionally there are two different day and night areas that needed a differentiated feeling. The day area is formed by the entrance vestibule, the corridor, the kitchen and the living room; all well connected with each other. The night area is formed by three independent bedroom suites, to provide some privacy for three different families.

Aribau Apartment in Barcelona – Building Information

Architecture/interior design: YLAB Arquitectos Barcelona
Authors: Tobias Laarmann & Yolanda Yuste López
Project: Apartment refurbishment in Barcelona
Area: 163 sqm
Contractor: 7Works General Contractor www.7worksgc.com – Carpintería Construmad www.carpinteriaconstrumad.com
Partners: Acor, Bticino, Sesaelec, Gunni & Trentino

Flooring: Hydraulic mosaics by Mosaic del Sur, White continuous Pandomo K1 cement floor
Painting and mouldings: Valentine white paint Ral 9010, Coving and mouldings by Orac Décor
Custom-made wood furniture: Finishings in graphite lacquered wood, dark tinted natural elm wood veneer and white lacquered wood
Custom-made metal furniture: Black iron sheet satin lacquer finished
Lighting: Grid In Trimless black by Deltalight, Lotis recessed lamps by Modular, Aplomb dining table suspended lamps by Foscarini

Sanitaries: Link suspended WC by Flaminia: Custom-made washbasins Corian Glacier White finished Custom-made showers finished with Artic White porcelain surface by Neolith

Kitchen furniture, appliances: Custom-made kitchen all finished in black Nero Assoluto Bocciardato natural stone, Kitchen island finished in whitened natural oak veneer, Faucet Blancolinus by Blanco, Cooker hood Invisible 18 EM by Gutman, Gas cooker PVA140-1 by Smeg

Electrical accessories: Livinglight by Bticino

Commercial furniture: Dining Wire Chair leather upholstered by Vitra, Concrete dining table Boiacca by Kristalia, Kitchen high stools by Mater, Alanda central table by Paolo Piva