Abandoned hayloft now small cube home on Costa Brava estate

David Pou van den Bossche's grandparents and father were born and raised in their 16th century masia (Catalan Villa) on the Costa Brava, but when David came of age, the family had grown too large for the estate. To make room for David's generation, they turned to outbuildings like an abandoned hayloft and horse stable.

All of these structures were located on the northern side of the property, which lacked good solar orientation and were highly exposed to the strong winds

David's sister inherited the old home of the family horse (Nino), his brother received an upstairs hallway/porch area and David was given the hayloft. Since David and his partner Estel Ortega are architects they volunteered to make these spaces liveable.

Nearly windowless and covered in cement, back in 2005, the hayloft was an inhospitable storage shed. The architect couple (partners in life and in work with their firm Cubus Taller d'Arquitectura) wanted to preserve as much as possible so they stripped the structure down to its original stone and left this outer "box" nearly intact (except for one landscape window).

More info on original video: http://faircompanies.com/videos/view/abandoned-hayloft-now-small-cube-home-on-costa-brava-estate/

CUBUS Taller d'Arquitectura (Cubus Architects): http://www.cubusarquitectura.com/cubus/HOME.html

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