Casa MOOD is located in a building from the early twentieth century, located on a busy entrance road to the city of Barcelona.

Its crushed interior was the result of the construction system and lifestyle of the beginning of the century, and it was becoming less and less functional for its inhabitants: the most used spaces during the sunny hours: kitchen, dining room and study; did not receive natural light, as they were articulated around small and dark inner courtyards.

On the other hand, there was no link between the daily dining room and the living room, so the latter only entered the “scene” for occasional celebrations.

It was essential to prepare the house for the possible need to receive a member in a wheelchair. An “adapted” house was one of the biggest challenges in this restructuring.

Thus, the project was a great challenge: to relocate the program of a single-family house with demanding requirements, in a rigid multi-family building, where the structure of load-bearing walls on the second floor made the demolition of load-bearing walls unfeasible.

Following these premises, we kept the load-bearing walls intact, without renouncing to a functional redistribution of the rooms

In the search for an open, integrated and well-lit day area, we arranged the kitchen-dining-living room facing the façade. In the gazebo, linked but independent, we resolved with custom furniture, a desk with capacity for the two members of the couple.

We converted the old study into a laundry-pantry, responding to the owner’s request to have as much storage space as possible.

We split the old kitchen in two, converting it into an en-suite bathroom and a maid’s room. In this way it was possible to solve an en suite bathroom that can become “adapted” by simply removing the shower screen.

In the master bedroom the meters of the old en suite bathroom are added, providing a solution of open and adapted dressing room, structured from a custom-made furniture with which the headboard of the bed and the walk-in closet are solved.

The materials used are reduced to three: wood, microcement and porcelain. The chromatism is also reduced to three: gray scales, wood and the occasional use of copper elements. These choices become the guiding thread of the interior design project.