Calm within the Metropolis: A Cramped Residence Turns into a ‘A Heat and Cozy Dwelling’ for a Couple with Younger Children

Conti, Cert., the Barcelona-based agency that garnered a spot on The Remodelista Checklist: 20 Architects, Tastemakers, and Designers to Watch in 2023, lately reached out with a fascinating new mission they oversaw for friends-turned-clients. “They had been within the course of of shopping for this house, and wished to revamp it fully. They had been searching for extra gentle, a wiser distribution, and a really heat and comfy house to convey up their youngsters,” says Andrea Conti, who, together with Isa Cert, based the studio with the objective of designing easy, elegant, and timeless properties.

Along with reconfiguring the upper-floor, three-bedroom house to be extra open and ethereal—”It was a very partitioned dwelling, with a number of darkish rooms, low ceilings, and cramped corners,” says Andrea—additionally they sought to revive a number of the house’s authentic architectural particulars (the flat is in a basic Fifties constructing). “Each time we discover vaulted ceilings, that are known as Catalan ‘volta’ right here, or molded doorways, we attempt to get well them. On this mission, we tore down the low roofs aiming to search out this ceiling. If we can not restore or get well these options, we construct them with new supplies, all the time sustaining the unique essence of the area,” explains Andrea.

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Images by Claudia Mauriño, courtesy of Conti, Cert.