{"id":63238,"date":"2026-04-29T17:27:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/bardo-transforma-un-piso-en-el-barcelones-barrio-de-gracia-en-una-secuencia-continua-que-nace-de-su-propia-estructura\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T18:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T18:03:09","slug":"bardo-transforma-un-piso-en-el-barcelones-barrio-de-gracia-en-una-secuencia-continua-que-nace-de-su-propia-estructura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exagono.es\/en\/bardo-transforma-un-piso-en-el-barcelones-barrio-de-gracia-en-una-secuencia-continua-que-nace-de-su-propia-estructura\/","title":{"rendered":"Bardo transforms a flat in Barcelona’s Gracia neighbourhood into a continuous sequence rooted in its own structure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bardo’s first project in Barcelona \u2014the studio founded by Madrid-based architect Emiliano Domingo B\u00e1rcena\u2014 begins, like so many good renovation projects, with a significant structural decision: the removal of several load-bearing walls in a nineteenth-century building in the Gracia neighbourhood. Sixty square metres that, once freed, allowed the layout of the flat to be completely rethought. What remained standing after that operation \u2014visible, intact, and central\u2014 was the element that would determine the language of the whole: the Catalan vault, the revolt\u00f3 that gives the project its name.<\/p>\n\n\n

The architect acknowledges that it was this encounter with an unfamiliar constructive typology that set the project in motion. The ceramic vault, with its joists in constant rhythm, held something worth listening to: a cadence that the design would gather and amplify. The decision to leave that element exposed, to emphasise it with colour while the rest of the flat moved in warm neutrals \u2014creams, timbers, soft finishes\u2014 made the beams and vaults the only chromatic focus of the home, visible and resonant against a deliberately quiet ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The curved language of the project<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

From that cadence emerges the curved language of the project. The curve here is the geometric transcription of the structural rhythm of the ceiling. The most eloquent gesture is the dressing area, a piece with an undulating front that runs along the bedroom wall like an interior facade. Its curved modules pick up the rhythm of the joists and carry it into the vertical plane. One of those modules conceals a fold-out bed, so that the piece functions simultaneously as wardrobe, spatial boundary, and potential bedroom. Functional and unequivocally architectural.<\/p>\n\n\n

The open plan is organised around three devices working in concert: the curve, the mirror, and the glass. The large smoked mirror in the kitchen area amplifies natural light and visually connects spaces that the project chooses to keep in continuity. The bedroom enclosure \u2014a curved glass screen\u2014 filters the relationship with the daytime zone with the same logic: it gradates, softens the boundary, and turns the transition into a continuous gesture.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Spaghetti<\/em>\u00a0stool, 1980s.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Dining table, Bardo design. Starck-aesthetic dining chairs, 1980s.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Moon<\/em>\u00a0armchair, Pietro Arosio, 2000s.\u00a0Calder<\/em>\u00a0table lamp, Metalarte, 1970s. Vintage artwork. Pieces from Polop Store. Vases by Jaime Hay\u00f3n, RS Barcelona.\u00a0Emily Moss<\/em>\u00a0jug, RS Barcelona.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Coffee table, Philippe Starck, 1980s.\u00a04641<\/em>\u00a0ashtray, Kartell, 1970s.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The kitchen as domestic core<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The kitchen acts as the domestic core of the ensemble. Its fluted timber fronts introduce texture and contrast within the neutral palette, and the rounded island organises the flow between the work area and the dining space. The circular dining table designed by the studio itself, with its base of alternating light and dark timber bands, sets the rhythm of that encounter. Above it hangs a hemispheric lamp in bottle green \u2014a knowing nod to pop\u2014 while Starck-aesthetic chairs and vintage pieces from Polop Store compose a space where different eras coexist with ease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main bathroom is the only space in the flat fully clad in colour. Yellow ceramic tiles cover walls and ceiling, building an intense and enveloping atmosphere, resolved with coherence through the pointed-arch mirror and the two-tone spherical light fixtures that multiply its reflection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bedroom, filtered through the curved glass and framed by the curtains that separate it from the main circulation, holds a composition of great restraint: the integrated headboard in fluted timber, the Murano lamp from the eighties, the striped bedlinen. The space is experienced from the inside outward, as if the entire flat unfolds from that intimate core.<\/p>\n\n\n

Revolt\u00f3 is a home that grows from listening to its own structure. Bardo draws the language from the existing material, develops it with coherence at every scale \u2014from the detail of a handle to the circulation of the plan\u2014 and makes it liveable with precision. The result is a flat experienced as a continuous sequence, where every decision responds to the same constructive logic and where the passage of time \u2014nineteenth-century architecture, seventies and eighties design, contemporary furniture\u2014 coexists without tension.<\/p>\n\n

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Furniture<\/h2>\n\n\n

Living and dining area<\/strong>: Dining table, Bardo design.\u00a0Moon<\/em>\u00a0armchair, Pietro Arosio, 2000s.\u00a0Calder<\/em>\u00a0table lamp, Metalarte, 1970s. Coffee table, Philippe Starck, 1980s.\u00a04641<\/em>\u00a0ashtray, Kartell, 1970s. Starck-aesthetic dining chairs, 1980s.\u00a0Spaghetti<\/em>stool, 1980s. Vintage artwork. Pieces from Polop Store. Vases by Jaime Hay\u00f3n, RS Barcelona.\u00a0Emily Moss<\/em>\u00a0jug, RS Barcelona. Dressing area<\/strong>:\u00a0D\u00faplex<\/em>\u00a0BD stool, Javier Mariscal, 1980s, Polop Store. Coloured candles, Pampa Studio. Bedroom:\u00a0Wendy Wright<\/em>\u00a0chair, Philippe Starck, 1980s.\u00a0Leucos<\/em>\u00a0Murano lamp, 1980s. Polop Store.
Reading area<\/strong>:\u00a0Topuro<\/em>table lamp, Parachilna.
Flowers<\/strong>: Bathroom: floral arrangement by Sim\u00f3n Odints\u00f3v. Rest of the flat: created by the stylist.<\/p>\n\n

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Project<\/strong>: Revolt\u00f3.
Location<\/strong>: Barrio de Gracia. Barcelona.
Area:<\/strong> 60 m\u00b2.
Completed:<\/strong> 2024.
Author:<\/strong> Bardo Arquitectura<\/a>.
Architect<\/strong>: Emiliano Domingo B\u00e1rcena.
Collaborators<\/strong>: Elisa Vegue.
Photograph:<\/strong> Germ\u00e1n S\u00e1iz<\/a>.
Styling:<\/strong> Ismael L\u00f3pez Portilla.
Furniture:<\/strong> Polop Store<\/a>, RS Barcelona.
Source<\/strong>: Mar\u00eda Camila Mart\u00ednez.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Emiliano Domingo. Bardo Arquitectura <\/h2>\n\n\n

Fundado en 2021, Bardo Arquitectura es el estudio dirigido por el arquitecto Emiliano Domingo, cuyo trabajo se mueve entre la arquitectura, el interiorismo y el dise\u00f1o de mobiliario. Desde su creaci\u00f3n, el estudio ha apostado por una pr\u00e1ctica proyectual que entiende el dise\u00f1o como un proceso integral, capaz de abordar con la misma atenci\u00f3n tanto la escala arquitect\u00f3nica como el detalle m\u00e1s preciso. Ver biograf\u00eda completa<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

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Bardo Arquitectura
<\/strong>Pinos Baja 89
28029 Madrid
+34 648 214 597
info@bardoarquitectura.com
bardoarquitectura.com<\/a>
@bardo.arq<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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