ARCHITECTURAL JEWEL FAD AWARD 2024 IN SARRIÀ

We present an exclusive luxury residence in the heart of the Old Town of Sarrià, a newly built architectural gem with four impressive levels, designed to dazzle with its supreme quality, design and modern style that combines avant-garde and tradition. This magnificent property SARRIA 1736 has been awarded the prestigious FAD Architecture Award 2024. Daily life is divided into three floors, starting on the ground floor with the living room and a dining room that harmoniously merges with an open kitchen with a central equipped island that gives access through large windows with folding doors to the beautiful garden with a swimming pool where a pleasant sunbathing area is located, inviting natural light to enter and communicate throughout the house thanks to the architectural solution proposed by the designers that challenges architectural conventions where the combination of light and emptiness are supported between large four columns creating a constant feeling of weightlessness. The central space is the most collective, the most primordial and special of the house. It is an atrium on the ground floor and first floor combined with a superimposed cloister on the second floor. Two archetypes with a very strong geometry and dimensions that fit one on top of the other and from where the distributions of the different rooms and bedrooms are organized. The atrium is the highest space in the house with four central pillars that free the hole of the central patio and that delimit and frame a virtual space in the middle of the house where the living room will be located. The upper cloister is a space with similar characteristics, with a lot of height and natural light, but without the centrality of the atrium. In the cloister, instead of occupying the center, the use surrounds the patio. It gives prominence to light and ventilation and is located on the perimeter, expanding the circulation spaces and sharing with the rooms that surround it. It is an extension of the rooms, the collective space of the rooms to share. The large walls have been built with "poor" concrete made on site. A mixture with very little cement and a selection of sand and gravel, applied with a compaction technique similar to that of the wall, is a very robust monolithic solution with a lot of thermal inertia but at the same time porous enough to help regulate and stabilise the temperature, humidity and acoustics of the spaces. The ceilings of the main spaces are always as high as possible and made of wood to achieve maximum differentiation from the complementary spaces that are completely mineral spaces excavated within the walls. A house within the city, which due to its typological and construction characteristics reconnects with traditional Mediterranean models characteristic of the city of Barcelona such as Gothic courtyards and their bioclimatic and wellbeing values. Two terraces on the roof complete the top floor where you can spend pleasant evenings with spectacular views of the Sarrià neighbourhood. The property has a private lift, aerothermal and underfloor heating, photovoltaic panels, osmosis system throughout the house and security systems (alarm and security cameras). The property is completed by the lower level, which has a spacious parking area with capacity for six large vehicles plus two storage rooms, guaranteeing comfort and security. In short, the fusion of the new and the old without giving up creative freedom makes this award-winning house unique and exclusive, making it one of the mainstays of contemporary architecture in the heart of Sarrià.