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Flat renovation in the Malasaña neighborhood, Madrid

The traditional structure of apartments in Madrid, a system of load-bearing walls parallel to the facade that enclose a set of rooms of different sizes that revolve around interior courtyards and are isolated and at the same time connected by a corridor, is the starting point for this house for a single person located on the third floor of an apartment building in the Malasaña neighborhood. The most singular physical and measurable characteristic of the apartment is its length: from one end of the house to the other there are 21 linear metres that give the hints for an adequate intervention. The project's floor plan is the result of a complete emptying of the house that organizes the domestic space into a single environment in which it is compatible with the spatial strategy of walls of the initial state. In other words, the pre-existing system of contiguous rooms is re-established only in this second life, larger and connected to each other ensuring that the unity and continuity between the parts is recovered. Consequently, new topological and programmatic relationships result in a free and fluid domestic space, liquid,where the concept of a living space is investigated through the construction of scenographies of the habitat vinculadas a las acciones básicas de cocinar, dormir, descansar, trabajar, relacionarse y de limpieza y cuidado del cuerpo, ya que las esquinas de las habitaciones, antes fondos de saco (cul de sac), se entienden como áreas de oportunidad donde experimentar a través de elementos visuales que giran el espacio curvándolo y constituyen, mediante el uso del color y la iluminación, de forma simbólica, el lugar en el que se desarrolla una acción, y que conforman una producción escénica doméstica que, sobre un suelo de madera continuo, además de entender y potenciar la vivienda como un lugar estancial, también permite explicar la casa como una sucesión de narrativas contemporáneas que articulan los recorridos transversales y longitudinales, públicos y privados, susceptibles de ser constantemente reconfigurados en función de las necesidades de Carlos, su dueño, que, frente al exclusivo funcionalismo doméstico, facilitan el sueño de habitar.

Built work

FINALIST. FAD de Arquitectura y Diseño 2020 Prize

Credits

Location Madrid, Spain

Year 2020

Built area 124m2

Client private

Architecture gon (Gonzalo Pardo) + Ana Torres

Team Alejandro Sánchez, Carol Linares, Carlos Barranco, Clara Dios, Iván Rando

Construction Serviteco Obras s.l

Carpentry Alma Ebanistería s.l

Kitchen Barronkress s.l