Villain House
by Architecture Office Clàudia Raurell

Architecture Office Clàudia Raurell has designed Villain House in Barcelona, Spain.

Villain House is a radical makeover of a self-built shack in Barcelona’s hills on the slopes of Montjuïc.

Preserving only the original street-facing wall, this project replicates the former volume in concrete, inserting a glazed skin and a climate-regulating patio. Inside, a scattered arrangement of volumes generates open flows and varying degrees of intimacy, without doors.

The material duality – beige masonry outside, raw grey concrete inside – frames a space that questions domestic conventions.

Embracing ambiguity, imperfection and spatial uncanniness, the house constructs a dialogue between the familiar and the improper, reframing what a home can be and how it might be inhabited.

This project has been longlisted in the house urban category of Dezeen Awards 2025.

Studio: Architecture Office Clàudia Raurell
Project: Villain House