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Name: Pujades11
Type: Design & Interior Architecture
Size: 60 m2
Location: Barcelona City, Spain
Design & Architecture: Studio P10 & Miel Arquitectos

When it comes to tackling a new project, we objectively push the boundaries to exceed the limits. Always searching for the unique perspective, the different angle, the fresh idea.

Testing the limits of creativity, our aim is ultimately to surprise ourselves. Constantly searching for discovery to hone and tighten our skills. Convincing us that these little experiments will reveal the theme and melody of our vision of living.

Name: Parlament29
Type: Design & Interior Architecture
Size: 48 m2
Location: Barcelona City, Spain
Design & Architecture: Studio P10 & Miel Arquitectos
Photography: Mila Belyaeva

Parlament29 is our investigation into the contrasts of 21^st century urban living, a cocoon of peace and tranquility in the heart of a bustling city.

The Objectives: Deconstructing the rigid barriers of the 1890 Eixample layout. The North facing apartment is designed to funnel the light reflecting from the opposite buildings and courtyard.

With the utilisation of the 48sqm2 space being the key aim, individual zones create a flexible response to the residential needs – Work, Rest, Play, Fuel & Hygiene.

The Premise: Our strategy lay in connecting a happening of personal and social use inside a double skin. A nest of peacefulness positioned at the center of the space, acting as a diagonal channel, infusing the light to penetrate deeper into the eating – living – working area, continuing through to the kitchen area and finally the bathroom.

Studio P10 is proud to present Salva46. The completed design and interior renovation project, of their collaboration with Miel Arquitectos.

Name // Salva46 Type // Design & Interior Architecture

Size // 63 m2

Location // Barcelona City, Spain

Design & Architecture // Studio P10 & Miel Arquitectos

Photography // Asier Rua

Salva46 is our investigation into flexible co-existence.Exploring the nomadic lifestyle of the 21st century. Where movement and fluidity contrast with privacy and stability. An experiment in shared micro living – two equally balanced spaces pivoted by a central communal area. A play of opposites in a world of conformists.

With the price of city property reaching astronomic proportions in the 21^st century, and first time buyers struggling to even reach the property ladder, let alone put a foot on it.

The last few years have witnessed a growing trend towards the concept of micro-living. These spaces usually under 40m2, range in their complexities. Examples such as Gary Chang’s Apartment 24 and Simon Woodroffe’s Yo! Home, offer complex solutions to an age-old problem. The creation of space within limited boundaries.

However, does the solution need to be so complicated? With housing shortages now effecting American cities, the originators of ‘big is beautiful’ are now starting to think that good things really do come in small packages.

AdaptNYC, a pilot program launched in New York City to look at proposals for micro-units are searching for the new American Dream. The winners of the competition propose a mixture of pre-fabricated construction and snap-on architecture to deal with the chronic housing shortage in Manhattan.

Many of the suggested schemes follow the same concept of Kisho Kurokawa’s, 1972 Capsule Tower, a pioneer of the metabolist movement, using scalable and stackable modular architecture. Moshe Safdie’s Habitat 67, being another famous example of a trend, now witnessing resurgence. With shipping containers the new theme currently replacing the asbestos boxes in many projects seen world-wide.