Carolina Lemke store – Cucurulla Street

Barcelona · Sur: 54 m2
The project aims to invite passers-by to enter a store located in a busy street in the city center. In order to maximize the available triangular space, the store is conceived like an open, accessible display window. The two existing openings have no glass and are framed in black thus creating a sign with the brand name. The neutral white interior makes the color of each product stand out.

In partnership with Linoy Rubinshtein & Jordi Sinfreu.

Carolina Lemke – Joan de Borbó Street

Barcelona · Sur: 30 m2
In partnership with Linoy Rubinshtein & Jordi Sinfreu.

Carolina Lemke store – Sants Station

Barcelona · Sur: 60 m2
Located in a very busy area, the project raises the store like a glass box full of light. The route of the two facades in the corner shows at all times the illuminated interior, as well as the products that are exposed, inviting the passers-by to enter.
Using mainly the corporate colors of the brand, the white furniture contrasts with the pavement and the black volume of the store.
In partnership with Linoy Rubinshtein & Jordi Sinfreu.

In a building designed by architect Josep Lluís Sert, renowned member of G.A.T.P.A.C., the project adapted the house to the current needs of the client whilst acknowledging elements of the original project, recapturing for instance the double space in the living room. Hallways were eliminated in favour of wider spaces. Natural oak was combined with white-lacquered panels.

The roof was converted into a garden to enjoy the outdoors in the middle of the city.

An old flat with a typical Eixample morphology -that is, facing both the street and the courtyard, with a large glazed gallery on the back façade, and high ceilings.

The project reorganized the spaces and eliminated elements that were obstructing light penetration towards the inside of this long flat. The former gallery was modified so that the large Windows would open up totally to create a terrace. The stunning floor mosaic in the lobby was fully restored.

Full renovation of a flat that was too compartmentalized. The project turned the kitchen, dining room and living room into an open space which directly communicates with the outdoor terrace. Wood and white are the main tones, in contrast with the bathroom, in dark hues.

In the full renovation of this house the functional program has been redefined, removing some of the existing small rooms in favour of more generosity in the space as a whole.

The project is brought together by the kitchen, made up of a semipermeable volume located in the center of the house that allows the natural light to filter and modify the relationship with the dining room in a dynamic way. This volume, which has an independent access from outside, serves as a separator of daytime and nighttime zones, and is conceived as a box that can be more or less sealed depending on what the users want.

The daytime zone is a large open space where different functional areas that share the same environment are organized: the entrance hall, the reading area, the dining room and the living room. A long glass facade illuminates the entire space, while giving direct access to the outside terrace.

The large dimensions and the fluidity of the daytime area make for great functional versatility, a quality which is reinforced by the furniture, such as the long longitudinal shelf that contains the office, the library, the music equipment, the piano and the sideboard, or the large extendable square dining table with capacity for a large group of diners.

The nighttime area has an ensuite master bedroom; there’s a second bathroom which also serves the daytime area and two rooms that can be joined together by means of large sliding doors that offer the possibility of creating one large space.

As for the finishes, the white dominates, which enhances the luminosity of the facades towards the interior of the house, and it is combined with light oak wood. The kitchen floor and the bathroom linings are light gray stone.

The soft tones create a neutral and temperate environment, where certain pieces of furniture provide contrast occasionally as well as other dark elements that are a counterpoint, such as the iron piece of furniture in the fireplace or the slate wall covering in the kitchen.

Polished steel, microcement and natural wood on a white background with black brushstrokes.

The materials chosen for the renovation of this house largely define the will of its occupants: a kitchen with lots of natural light and open to the dining room.

Natural light bounces through the bright, white surfaces of the kitchen into the interior of the house and, following the same path as light, a long white piece of furniture runs through and unifies the day areas: the kitchen, the dining room, the living room and the hall.

In this renovation of an old cottage house in the historic center of Premià de Mar, the project recognizes at all times the Mediterranean aspect of this cataloged housing.

On the ground floor, where the day zone is located, the distribution becomes more transparent so that all the spaces have a greater relationship with the existing patio. On the first floor there is a loft above the bathroom, thus increasing room space and diagonal visions.

In all the spaces, the wooden structure is restored and it is combined with white, gray and light brown tones. In the dining room area the flat brick vault is recovered. The furniture and style of the kitchen represent a counterpoint to the entire aesthetics of the house, breaking with a light color and a white marble country.

Offices for a non-profit foundation that promotes access to affordable housing for vulnerable groups and provides services to the elderly. Located in the premises of a ground floor with large openings, the space enjoys a lot of natural light and a fluid relationship with the outside.

The project has a dual objective: on the one hand, to maintain the flow of space towards the outside and between the different areas, and on the other hand, to present the offices as a welcoming space where both staff and visitors feel like at home.

Therefore, the large glass walls are combined with furniture, materials and lighting more typically found in a home than in an office, and the warmth of the natural wood becomes one of the main features.

A long wooden piece of furniture goes across the space longitudinally, articulating the access hall, the archive area and the open office with a multipurpose table at the back for informal meetings, finally leading to a service area that opens to a green space outside.

In the renovation project of this house from the early 20th century, located in the old quarter of Poble-Sec, the excessively compartmentalised spaces were resized in order to give more room to the whole.

The kitchen acts as the supporting volume above which a strip runs along the entire perimeter of the house.

The structure of the roofs has been strengthened and the metal and wooden beams with ceramic vaults that make them up have been left exposed, as well as the brick of the dividing walls and the load-bearing walls.

This is a large house with a big terrace that extends the day zone to the outside. Despite being very bright, the initial distribution was overly fragmented.

The project eliminates the service entrance, the foyer and some of the other hallway areas, creating a large access space, open to the living room and dining room.

The previous kitchen, very small in relation to the dimensions of the house, has been enlarged obtaining a spacious kitchen aisle area which connects directly with the living room and dining room by means of a great wooden sliding door.

Neutral tones have been chosen for the finishes: off-white walls, and furniture and panels of lacquered wood in the same hue, as well as natural oak.