House in Terrassa
- Frank Kaltenbach
Over a width of only 4 m and a length of 15 m, H Arquitectes have redesigned a house for five people with a minimal circulation area and great domestic comfort. One important change to the existing structure was to lay out the formerly dark ground floor more amply and make it brighter by setting the new, galvanized, trapezoidal-section composite floor a metre higher than the original timber beam construction. The former room height of 2.20 m nevertheless remains perceptible, since the existing joists have been retained and are exposed as an open white intermediate layer of beams, lending the living room and kitchen-dining room a southern charm. The architects have also preserved the tiled floor, exactly as they have the patina of the external wall to the courtyard and the compact brick staircase.
