本住宅改造项目位于巴塞罗那圣家族大教堂旁的一条安静的小巷子里。建筑师希望在尽可能地保留住宅内原有的加泰罗尼亚新艺术运动时期的现代主义元素的前提下，将其改造为一座除了主卧室外，至少包含一间客房的休息寓所。

▼室内公共空间全景，interior public space view ©Roberto Ruiz

The apartment is located in a quiet and green passageway beside the Sagrada Familia ever-on-site temple and belongs to Andrea Serboli, one of the two founders of the architectural firm. It was therefore the perfect opportunity to develop a sample of the firm’s style, having as a single limit a maximum budget to invest, and to find place for a great number of objects and memories forming the owner’s collection.

The simple brief was to turn the house into a wunderkammer, a quiet retreat full of emotionally charged objects, with at least one guest room besides the main one.

The 1914 building is a fairly simple example of a modernist (Catalan Art Nouveau) building in the Eixample district. The apartment, bought in a state of neglect, presented some period elements, although most of them irreversibly compromised.
The original layout consisted of a series of partitions, in full style of the modernist period, which divided the apartment into six rooms. The gallery overlooking the interior patio of the block had been previously closed off with PVC windows; the original period gallery windows had been lost before the purchase.

The challenge has been translated into the will to maintain the period elements that could be saved, without renouncing to a flat with a distinct contemporary character and as clear and diaphanous as possible.

明亮通透的室内空间，天花板采用暖白色表面的加泰罗尼亚拱顶，airy and diaphanous interior space, using warm white Catalan vaults as new ceiling©Roberto Ruiz

改造过程中，保留住宅入口处两间现状良好的卧室，其余部分予以重新建造。宽敞的浅蓝色半拱形走廊连接着卧室和公共空间，采用微细水泥地面，在与入口走廊交汇处呈现一条弧形的相交线，保留了入口处原有的彩色地板。

重建过程中，首先在需要重建的空间的中心位置置入一个木饰面的蓝色方盒子体量，住宅的其余功能空间围绕着这个蓝色体量组织。

The two bedrooms adjacent the entrance had original features in good condition (floors and doors above all). The presence of a lineal balcony that connects them to the tree-lined passage has contributed even more to the idea of restoring and recovering them in their original layout.
In the rest of the apartment, the impossibility of preserving the original floors and the presence of bathroom and kitchen elements in a too prominent and unfavorable position, led to the decision of the total removal of the remaining walls, making it impossible to preserve the floors.

A semi-arc carves the blue volume transforming the corridor in an ample, curved ceiling hall that connects visually day and night areas, finished in a lighter blue.
 The wide corridor flooring is covered in micro-cement in a lighter shade of blue, matching that side of the box and by the entrance its step ends with a curve, exposing the original multicolored geometric floor.

The concept of the project is therefore guided by the idea of emptying the apartment and inserting a lacquered, wooden-clad, groove- paneled blue box in the middle of the floor plan, modulating and redefining the spaces around it in a more architectonic way.

▼从入口到起居室，保留了入口处原有的彩色地板，宽敞的浅蓝色半拱形走廊连接着卧室和公共空间，from the entrance to the living room, remaining the original multicolored geometric floor; the semi-arclight blue corridor connects bedrooms and the living room©Roberto Ruiz

两个长方形的大理石案台组成的厨房位于起居室与蓝色方盒子体量接壤的一侧。

In the living space, a large island hosting the hobs is designed as a detached piece of the box and doubles as a comfortable table for more intimate dinners or breakfasts.

▼两个长方形的大理石案台组成的厨房位于起居室与蓝色方盒子体量接壤的一侧，the kitchen located adjacent to the blue box consists of two boxes with marble counters©Roberto Ruiz