This property, designed by Spanish company Pepe Gascon Arquitecture for a plot on the hilly outskirts of Barcelona, was by no means ever truly meant to be a residence. Its authentic strategies have been for a merely barbecue platform, a spot for its elderly landowners to go for gatherings with household members. Nonetheless, as time went on, tiny additions had been produced, starting with a bathroom. Soon, a residence started to sort in the owners’ and architect’s minds, and an official strategy was launched for a modest, minimum residence dedicated to the art of barbecue. Featuring straightforward supplies and fiendishly clever, but expense-powerful, design elements, this compact property is extremely successfully-completed for an unintentional undertaking. It is not unusable, both, with two bedrooms, a bathroom, kitchen, and residing space.
The authentic space of the dwelling was this barbecue platform, meant to host the owners’ loved ones and shut friends. The property that grew from it was unintentional, but properly imagined out. It includes traditional indoor cooking spaces of its personal so as not to be impractical as a total-time living spot.
The two principal supplies utilised in the architecture are concrete and this sandy commercial-use brick, each and every of which have a down-to-earth humility about them, lending the house an unpretentious ambiance.
An interior hallway prospects all the way outside from the residing room to 1 particular end of the residence. It is open in the photoshoot, but it’s not absolutely clear irrespective of whether or not the room is meant to be covered by a window.
An uninterrupted rectangular footprint for the dwelling is preserved by the addition of a concrete sidewalk at the rear stemming from its offset exit. This stroll runs parallel to the house’s interior hallway.
At the time of the photoshoot, the developing had not but been furnished, so this bedroom is indistinguishable from any other room. Nonetheless, all industrial materials alternatives you see are finalized, and will be the extended-term finishes of the residence’s walls, ceilings, and floors.
As for the openness of interior spaces, the roof’s slope is most evident in the home’s only hallway, transitioning from area-height spaces for one distinct section to small doorways on the back.
For this kind of a compact property, there are much more exits than one particular would anticipate. The key hallway alone has two doors to the outdoors, as does the living spot.
The greatest area of the house by a broad margin is its residing area, which opens out onto the barbecue deck. The residing space has two glass walls, providing views out into the yard and the Spanish hillside past.
Pepe Gascon Aquitectura
