This week’s House of the Week takes us to Spain, where despite continuing economic gloom and housing crises, young architects are producing innovative and joyful designs for houses. This house, designed by Bosch Capdeferro Arquitectures for themselves, is located in Girona, about an hour’s drive north-east from Barcelona in Catalonia. The architects, who established their practice in 2003 in the same town, renovated a gothic house – planned around two courtyards – that had suffered neglect for over a century. Bosch Capdeferro’s approach to the renovation was to retain original features – chimneys, portals, windows, staircases – and enhance their presence through the use of adjacent and contrasting stuccoed walls, encaustic, ceramic tiles and fabric sunshades. These new interventions provide the comfort and character befitting the new use of the house, as well as being a bold statement of the ambitions of Spanish design. The tiles are particularly impressive for their modern interpretation on traditional patterns and colours. For more about the architects, visit:Bosch Capdeferro. To see other period buildings with exceptional modern interiors, as well as superior conversions and extensions, penthouses and loft apartments, visit: The Modern House