Simple and beautiful apartment in Barcelona design by Bach Arquitectes. They were asked to renovate a pair of existing apartments on the upper two floors of a housing block in Barcelona’s Eixample district to create a two-storey home for a young family, which is named Urgell Apartment. While the upper flat had been built in the 1960s, the one below it was considerably older and still contained some of the original encaustic floor tiles, which were made by pouring differently pigmented ceramics into a mould divided by walls before pressing the tiles to create a pattern that goes right through.
In Barcelona it is quite typical to find these kind of tiles in old flats from the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth. The problem was that there were not enough tiles for the whole flat because in some rooms they had been replaced for newer ones.
