Without pillars and with the entrance to the roof: the peculiar house that floats very close to Barcelona

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“Just brush the floor,” says Raúl Sánchez about his latest creation, Casa Magarola, a 175 square meter house in the municipality of Sant Cugat del Vallès, just a short distance from the centre of Barcelona. The “float” building on thin concrete screens, thus avoiding over-perforating the slate rock that covers the bulk of the plot. “It has no pillars and no apparent structure,” explains the architect, “only that pair of legs that serve as a dim …