The Turo Park apartment is a residential renovation by Sigla Studio in Barcelona’s Turó Park neighborhood. Turo Park spans 59 square meters and is organized around a central service core containing the bathroom, kitchen, and dressing room. The layout separates these functional spaces from the apartment perimeter, allowing natural light, views, and ventilation to reach the living areas. The design connects an open-plan living room to a more private bedroom while maintaining visual continuity throughout the home.
The bathroom features green ceramic tiles manufactured by Cerámica Ferrés and includes a bathtub positioned beside the living room. A motorized pivoting window system can enclose the bathing area when privacy is required. The kitchen uses plywood and aluminum finishes, while the dressing room is finished with walnut wood. Walls, floors, and ceilings around the apartment perimeter share a continuous mineral coating that reduces visual breaks between surfaces.
Open-Plan Spain Apartments
Turo Park uses a central core to organize a 59-square-metre home
Trend Themes
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Central Core Living — This layout strategy concentrates service functions in a core to free perimeter space for daylight and views, enabling new modular core systems that reconfigure small urban apartments.
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Perimeter Daylighting Design — Designs that prioritize continuous exterior surfaces and unobstructed window access promote uniform natural light and ventilation, creating demand for integrated facade-interior solutions that enhance well-being in compact homes.
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Adaptive Privacy Mechanisms — Movable glazing and motorized partitions permit selective enclosure of intimate zones, suggesting opportunities for seamless privacy systems that balance openness and seclusion within open-plan layouts.
Industry Implications
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Residential Renovation — Small-scale renovation firms can capitalize on reorganizing layouts around centralized cores to maximize light, airflow, and perceived space in legacy apartments.
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Smart Home Hardware — Manufacturers of motorized windows, pivoting glass, and integrated control systems stand to benefit from demand for responsive privacy and daylighting components tailored to compact living.
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Interior Materials Manufacturing — Producers of continuous mineral coatings, engineered plywoods, and specialty ceramics could deliver cohesive surface systems that simplify finishes and enhance visual continuity in tight urban residences.