Mateo Arquitectura

Residential building in Barcelona

Residential building in Barcelona
© Adrià Goula

Residential building in Barcelona

Mateo Arquitectura

SIZE
5000 sqft - 10,000 sqft

TYPE
Residential › Apartment

LOCATION
Barcelona, Spain

YEAR
2013

PHOTOS
Adrià Goula

STATUS
Built

In a small passage, in the city centre. 

The neighbours protected themselves from the exterior with thick walls and balconies.

Residential building in Barcelona
© Adrià Goula
Residential building in Barcelona
© Adrià Goula

We have to work with lightweight elements, so we designed the façade as a succession of layers.

One interior, of glass and stainless steel, and another exterior, close to it, of wood that opens and closes at will.

Residential building in Barcelona
© Adrià Goula
Residential building in Barcelona
© Adrià Goula

It protects us from noise and inquisitive eyes, acts as a filter between inside and outside, and gives the building an urban image.

To accommodate domestic life in the dense central city, architecture has to veil and control pure transparency.

Residential building in Barcelona
© Adrià Goula

Mateo Arquitectura
T + 34 932 186358
Mateo Arquitectura
Carrer de Teodor Roviralta, 39, Sarrià-Sant Gervasi, 08022 Barcelona, Spain