Beriot Bernardini Architects

While perusing the inter-webs the other day we came across several cool little apartments. After checking out their specs, we noticed that they had a common trait: they were all designed by the Spain’s Beriot, Bernardini Arquitectos.

We’ve looked at BBA’s work before with their cool loft that incorporated most of the space’s utilities along a built-in structure lining one side of the apartment. This design seems to be a trademark of the company; several of their apartments have a sorta loft-tower that houses the bed on top, storage all around and sometimes the kitchen and and bathroom as well. The results are gorgeous and belie the often tiny sizes of the spaces BBA is working with (often between 300 and 400 sq ft, though they have a number of larger projects as well).

Given that most of the pictures are of unfurnished spaces, we do wonder how some of these apartments live. Do people put much furniture in them? (We’d keep em pretty bare) Are people living in them full-time? What were the budget constraints? Regardless of the answers, we appreciate BBA’s talent for making the most of small space. See more on their website.

This tiny loft in downtown Madrid by Beriot Bernardini Architects is filled with clever ideas. BBA exploits the 301 sq ft former office space’s 12′ high ceilings, inserting a multi-functional, two story structure that houses a sleeping loft, 6′ high-ceilinged changing area, bathroom, ample storage and mini kitchen. The whole structure looks out toward the windows, both promoting ventilation and giving the illusion of more space.

We especially appreciate the staircase; it sits on casters and rolls out to reveal a large hanging rack and other storage.

Like the Specht Harpman and Jordan Parnasse apartments we looked at in the past, BBA’s apartment foregoes transforming furniture in favor of creating discreet spaces like bed and changing rooms. This strategy seems to work best in spaces with high ceilings, where vertical volume can be removed with fewer functional consequences than if you took it from usable floor space.

Though we don’t have an exact figure, BBA says the project was done very affordably out of plywood.

If you want to see more of the apartment, check out this video below. There is also an interview about the space with the architect (in Spanish without subtitles).

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