The Jaume Bach Esteve house is an early 20th-century building in Poblenou, Barcelona. Architect Raimon Batlle i Magañas designed it in 1903 in an austere modernist style. Its façade stands out for sculpted lintels and corbels with floral reliefs, wrought-iron grilles, cast-iron railings, and wooden doors.

Aramé Studio (Andrea Arriola Fiol and Adrián Mellado Muñoz) approached the renovation without competing with what was already there. The house, originally two separate apartments, spans 250 m² (2,691 sq ft.) and is reimagined as a single-family home with a studio across two floors.

Inside, a decorative silence prevails, almost monastic. Light, fluid, generous spaces through which air seems to circulate. Stainless steel, wood, custom-made elements, and a neutral palette extend through the rooms. In the stairwell, whitewashed vaults hold the building’s original memory. Upstairs, the terrace follows the same logic: unfinished walls and adjustable shutters. The project reads as a continuous sequence of rooms without fixed partitions, where furniture defines the use of each area.

Above the wooden table, a Lámina Mayor by Antoni Arola. A thin white sheet, an underline of light that structures the room without announcing itself.