Architects: TAKK / Mireia Luzárraga and Alejandro Muiño     Photography: José Hevia     Construction Period:  2022     Location:  Barcelona, Spain

“10k House” is the refurbishment of a 50m2 flat located in Barcelona with a material execution budget of only 10,000 euros, but with the aim of updating the home towards new models of use and environmental awareness within the framework of the current energy crisis and climate change.

From this apparent dichotomy between the low budget available and the ambition to completely transform the home, the main decisions that articulate the project arise:

1_Work with thermal gradients for the functional and programmatic configuration of the house instead of the most usual through the combination of rooms and corridors. In the new proposal, a distribution is chosen where the climatic and environmental specificity of each space is different. As if it were the layers of an onion, the different spaces of the house are nested inside each other, from the coldest to the hottest, to take advantage of each layer of air and material without having to provide extra energy. This type of distribution, climatically diverse, allows for the unifyingof functional programs, climate, and efficiency.

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