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- Architects: CRÜ
- Location: Barcelona, Spain
- Architects In Charge: Joan Astallé, Clàudia Raurell, Marc Peiró
- Area: 90.0 m2
- Porject Year: 2018
- Photographs: Adrià Goula
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Text description provided by the architects. La Ximena is a ground floor dwelling deformed by the position of the building’s vertical core. This irregularity is translated into an obvious division of the whole into two sub-spaces –one at the façade and one at the inner courtyard– connected by a corridor of anomalous proportions in which the wet rooms are placed to intentionally emphasize the disproportion between height and width.
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Plan
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The main bedroom at the façade is isolated from the street by inserting a patio that filters acoustic and visual contamination. The livingarea is placed at the back, oriented to a patio with an existing volume that is resurrected to become part of the rest of the program as an ambivalent piece.
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Section
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The materialisation is solved with the coexistence of whites, warm surfaces and a black granite that rest on a homogeneous patina/base of reddish epoxy.
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