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这套190平米的老公寓位于巴塞罗那老城区，有着不规则的平面，采光不充分，临街的一侧有大窗户和阳台。空间较大，背光处较深，建筑师在这个空间中植入一个白色的十字隧道，隧道部分主要是厨房和卫生间空间，他们全白的装饰就像仿佛有天光的明亮中庭一样，同时这里也是交通核心。除此之外，公寓部分都保留这原来的墙面，壁画还有饰面。

这个新的白色十字架就像一个外太空的新事物，与原有的老的材料发生优雅富有层次的叠加，这种未完成的叠加感直接反应时间和变迁，给人一种明晰而自由的感受。白色十字架还有一部分延伸进卧室，形成一个浴室。这个位于空间核心的十字架是房屋的中心。卧室和浴室之间由滑动门分割，独立在外的起居室，可以看成是城市空间的一部分。设计师为孩子们创造了可折叠的床垫，孩子们可以去他们想去的地方睡觉，这个公寓全部是他们的“露营”空间。

此外设计师还加入了一个新的地平面，地平面与墙壁碰撞处向上升起一部分。看起来这个表面和往常的地面不一样，像是额外的一个木材表皮，这层表皮就是以这样的方式和历史相撞，免去了在这个历史空间的沉重感，给人以自由轻盈之感。

设计师也希望实现自由的建筑空间，厨房的家具和用具都被很好的隐藏起来。包括延伸进卧室中的浴室，有一个滑动门，当滑动门打开时，这个卧室的平台才变成浴室。

Crusch alba (white cross), Barcelona 2009

The project is our flat in Barcelona in the Gotico area, in the center of the historic part of Barcelona. A challenge was the very heterogenic floor plan, which was interrupted by various light patios. The other issue is little daylight in the old town of Barcelona, as the sun and the heat were considered rather a burden in the old times. There is one major façade facing the street Banys Nous, with big windows and balconies. It was clear that we would have a big living space in this area. For the connection, organization (circulation) and lighting up the back part of the apartment we had to come up with an invention:

Crossing two programs = the white cross

The invention was to cross two programs: the kitchen and the bathroom, two brightly light up white spaces, forming a white cross. The white cross we put between those medieval walls and created a bright center in the middle of these fragment spaces and light patios. The crusch alba (white cross) is a crossing of two programs, there is no circulation, no matter where, you are either in the kitchen or in the bathroom. The rest of the space, the walls and ceilings are left in its original state: raw stone walls, wall paintings and raw plaster finishes.

Intervention of layers – pictures of the old times

We implemented the white cross as a new volume in the existing space and created openings into this white space. We light up the periphery: the border between old an new. In that respect, the layer outside of the white cross becomes the outer space, generating pictures of ‘the old times’ like looking outside a window into another landscape. By coincidence, real windows appear in these openings.

We left all the old surfaces in the original state, just varnished them: painted ceilings, painted wallpapers, raw old stone walls of the Gotico and even raw plaster of the new building interventions. The overlay of layers of old and new with light in between emphasizes the lack of hierarchy of old and new. It’s the feeling of not finishing; keeping it urban and letting the process and time be visible that gives a feeling of freedom. Space Machine – the spaces are not defined by walls, floors or volume

The apartment can be used as loft or as a three bedroom apartment. The white cross is physically and visually the center core of the back part of the apartment. The actual bedrooms and the bathroom can be divided by big sliding doors and are not defined by the cross itself. So the master bedroom space is part of in the white cross and part of the remaining old space (old layers). So the actual rooms are urban spaces, as they are part of various elements.

There is a major structural wall separating the living area from the white cross and the private areas of the apartment. Two door size openings and a window to a light patio are the only connection to the living area, dividing the flat in two parts. We dissolved the original wall into a sequence of elements, so that the openings become in between spaces of things touching, rather than holes in wall. So the separating element becomes the connecting element, an attractor brought to life by light. There are numerous options of how many bedrooms and niches we can create as bedrooms. The kids have foldable mattresses, so they can choose where they want to sleep. The kids are ‘camping’ in the apartment, with no fixed bedroom.

Urban space – horizon of light

The wooden volume we implemented on top of the old structure, the historical stone structure of the Gotico. Between the old layer and the new implementation there is always a horizon of light, expanding the space where normally it is the end of a room (periphery, where walls and floor meet). By creating the wooden objects we have no ‘floor surface’ but are walking on a wooden volume. There are no defined surfaces like walls and floors, but urban elements and volumes that we can use freely.

Program free architecture

As usual we implemented our tool of ‘program free architecture’, so the kitchen is not visible, but is part of the white cross. The children’s lounge in the bedroom is actually a bath, if you take off the top. The main bathroom is hidden by a huge sliding wall and only appears when you need it. The shower is in a corner of the white cross. If a space is not used for a specific program, it is always available as living space or for whatever.

The flat is like a continuation of the urban space of the Gotico of Barcelona, with a space machine, the white cross, added on.

Credits:
Architecture gus wüstemann www.guswustemann.com
Fotos bruno helbling www.helblingfotografie.ch
Stylist aliya knightley
• project size: 190m2
• project status: complete
• completion date: april, 2009

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