The volumetric envelope is almost  the first of the premises when confronting preexisting and program requirements. The contradiction between a latent hostility in an apparent idyllic condition of the place is also.

Often in relationships and transits the shortest or easiest distance is not the most appropriate. The direct roads become twisted, the fast roads become slow, which we take for granted it is no longer, the fine becomes thick and the thick becomes the fine.

The strategy is to incorporate some of the preexisting contradiction.

Galeria Joan Prats began its activity in 1976 in its emblematic space of Rambla Catalunya 54 in Barcelona.

Years later it incorporates a second exhibition space located a street away, Balmes 54. This space came to complement and provide more versatility the possibilities to show work in terms of typology and format. In 2014 it is adopted as main this new-old space of the street Balmes and this one must be rescheduled.

It was necessary to modify the narrative sequence of the exhibition spaces and to insert a wide area of ​​internal work, normally foreign to them.The section of the building offered the opportunity to introduce zenithal light to the bottom of the gallery where there were some stores organized on two floors. The intervention consists of emptying this large volume and placing two large holes in the ceiling. This substantially modifies the end of the story.

A duplex housing refurbishment on one of the narrow streets in the district of Eixample in Barcelona. The upper floor is basically  a lobby of the big terrace with a multipurpose space  and a small bathroom. The works are focused on the lower floor where the basic functional programme is developping.

The landlord asks for a huge kitchen and we decided to let everything revolve around it. Preparing a “picada” with direct view on Silvia playing the piano or watching the autumn chaging the small urban canopy down the passage.

A huge kitchen asks in turn for a huge pantry and one with several doors is made.

Single family detached house on two floors refurbishment. The intervention focuses on the first floor where the night program is developed. The ground floor is well positioned on the plot but the upper floor does not manage to link the exterior with the layout of its pieces.

A cabinet with gadgeto-doors in the centre of the floor is responsible for making appear or disappear a guest room that normally will function as a dressing room of the main one. The bathrooms have a previous hall connected to the double space of the living room and to Manolo, the gardener.