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Entwurf • Design Colombo and Serboli, ES-Barcelona
Bauherr • Client Familie Klinker, US-Coronado
Standort • Location El Born, ES-Barcelona
Wohnfläche • Floor space 75 m 2
Fotos • Photos Roberto Ruiz, ES-Barcelona
Mehr Infos auf Seite • More info on page 126

KLINKER APARTMENT

IN BARCELONA

It was to be a tailor-made holiday residence in the old
home town, but a fire destroyed the work of interior
designer Marta Klinker. For the second attempt, she
hired the architects Colombo and Serboli, who were
able to counter the low budget with a lot of experi-
ence and many good ideas. The result is a domicile
that lives up to the clients's family name, Klinker.

M arta Klinker comes from Barcelona and has been living and
working as an interior designer in Coronado, California, since
2013. During one of her vacations in her home city, she discovered an
apartment in need of renovation in the trendy district of El Born in a
charming Art Noveau building and decided to set up a holiday resi-
dence for herself, her husband and their two small children. Projects
by the architectural office CaSA were her inspiration for the interior
design of the 75-square-metre apartment. Architects Matteo Colombo
and Andrea Serboli—partners in both business and life—had also con-
verted a holiday apartment in El Born in 2017 (see AIT 3.2019). One
day before the family was to move into the new domicile, disaster
Grundriss • Floor plan struck: an explosion in the building triggered a fire that destroyed the
newly renovated apartment and left it in an uninhabitable state. Fru-
strated, the family allowed a year to pass by before, from California,
commissioning CaSA to renovate and reinterpret the interiors. Saving
costs was the order of the day, so the floor plan resulting from the first
renovation was left unchanged and it was decided to create accentua-
tions using colour. In order to give special prominence to the centre
of the apartment, the kitchen area, the architects contrasted it with
the rest of the rooms by means of a colour block that extends across
the entire floor plan. Cement screed in a rich terracotta shade stret-
Längsschnitt • Longitudinal section ches across the walls, floor and ceiling and evokes associations with
a clinker façade—an allusion to the owners' family names. The remai-
ning rooms were each painted in softer shades but only halfway up.
The thus created visual horizon makes the interiors appear wider and
the white upper half appears brighter. In the living and entrance area,
a sandy shade envelops the colour block and creates a connection
between the different areas. In the bedrooms, a light mint green crea-
tes a pleasantly cool atmosphere. The historic Art Noveau stucco ele-
ments of the ceilings had to be refurbished and, in some places, com-
pletely renewed. In order to emphasize these decorative elements, the
Querschnitte • Transversal sections ceilings are also set off from the walls in various vibrant colours.

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