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Entwurf • Design gon-architects + Ana Torres, ES-Madrid
Bauherr • Client Carlos de Vega, ES-Madrid
Standort • Location Calle Espíritu Santo 33, ES-Madrid
Wohnfläche • Living space 124 m 2
Fotos • Photos Imagen Subliminal, ES-Madrid
Mehr Infos auf Seite • More info on page 126
BACHELOR APARTMENT
IN MADRID
Rebellious, diverse and creative are attributes that are
willingly associated with the Malasaña district in Ma-
drid. The atmosphere of the trendy quarter was the star-
ting point for the architects Gonzalo Pardo and Ana Tor-
res to realize a colourful apartment conversion in a
dense city location, which in its unconventional way is
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perfectly tailored to the client's personality!
F velopment, alternating sandstone façades and French balconies, it
rom the street, which is characterised by a small-scale perimeter de-
is almost impossible to imagine the loft character of the newly designed
124-square-metre apartment on the third. What one would actually ex-
pect behind the typical Madrid façade is a multitude of small rooms,
which often only receive daylight from narrow and high inner courtyards
and are lined up along a dark and winding corridor. Thus, by Madrid
standards, the bright and open-plan apartment, in which all areas of
life—from the spacious living room, to the dining and guest room, the kit-
„Nach der Ent kernung der chen and bathroom, through to the bedroom and dressing room—are se-
Wohnung wurde das amlessly connected, is quite an exception. This is exactly what the client
wanted when he commissioned the architects Gonzalo Pardo from gon-
entstandene Kontinuum mit architects and Ana Torres to carry out the conversion. The client is a ba-
Sequenzen und Szeno graphien chelor and evidently not interested in traditional family planning. What
he envisioned instead was a flowing sequence of bright rooms with op-
des Lebens gefüllt.“ portunities for development. This was no uncomplicated undertaking!
The architect duo had the existing, small-scale apartment almost com-
gon-architects pletely gutted. Load-bearing walls were supported and wooden columns
formerly embedded in the walls were reinforced with new steel structu-
res. In this way, Pardo and Torres opened up the apartment across its en-
tire depth of 21 metres. They then filled the resulting spatial continuum
with "sequences and scenographies of life", as they described it them-
selves—with open-plan areas for relaxing and entertaining, working, ea-
ting, cooking and sleeping. Colour fields ingeniously applied throughout
the apartment underline the individual "scenes". Moreover, the coloured
areas deliberately extend across corners and edges of the room and
thus—together with mirror elements and mirror surfaces—cover up the
boundaries between the individual areas of life. Even the most conven-
tional of all dividing lines, which for example separates a "public" hall-
way from a "private" bathroom, is intentionally counteracted by semi-
transparent glass walls. Only concealed sliding elements—for example
Grundriss • Floor plan those used to separate the guest room—provide some privacy if required.
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