Le studio de design graphique Relajaelcoco a imaginé avec Walk with Me ce projet de carte et guide de poche de la capitale espagnole. Des créations d’une grande qualité, utilisant pour l’occasion des couleurs vives et des éléments visuels à la fois simple et impactant, donnant encore plus envie de découvrir Madrid.
Irma Gruenholz est une artiste madrilène qui possède non simplement un grand talent pour l’illustration, mais aussi pour la création de sculptures en argile. Elle façonne de ses mains des compositions très poétiques qu’elle prend ensuite en photo. Un univers d’une grande beauté à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
Mélangeant photographie, retouches et modélisation 3D, cette création de Noelia Lozano intitulée « Chulapo » impressionne par sa qualité d’exécution. Une installation colorée qui se dévoile en images et à travers une video en making-of à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
The resident of a compact apartment in Madrid demonstrates how she can rearrange walls and pull furniture out of the ceiling in this movie by photographer and filmmaker Miguel de Guzmán.
Designed by Spanish studio Elii Architects, the Didomestic apartment occupies the loft of an old building, so it was designed to make optimal use of space by creating flexible rooms that can be adapted for different activities.
Sliding pink partitions allow the main floor to be either opened up or divided into a series of smaller spaces, while a new mezzanine loft provides a bedroom where floor panels hinge open to reveal a vanity mirror, toiletry storage and a tea station.
The architects also added several fun elements to tailor the space to the resident’s lifestyle; a hammock, playground swing and disco ball all fold down from the ceiling, while a folding surface serves as a cocktail bar or ironing board.
“Every house is a theatre,” explained the architects. “Your house can be a dance floor one day and a tea room the next.”
The movie imagines a complete day in the life of the apartment’s inhabitant, from the moment she wakes up in the morning to the end of an evening spent with a friend.
“The idea was to show all the different spaces and mechanisms in a narrative way,” said De Guzmán.
Getting dressed in the morning, the resident reveals wardrobes built into one of the walls. Later, she invites a friend round for a meal and they dine at a picnic table that lowers down from the kitchen ceiling.
A rotating handle on the wall controls the pulleys needed to bring this furniture down from overhead, while other handles can be used to reveal shelving and fans.
A metal staircase connecting the two levels is contained within a core at the centre of the apartment and is coloured in a vivid shade of turquoise.
A shower room lined with small hexagonal tiles is located to the rear of the kitchen, plus there’s a bathroom on the mezzanine floor directly above.
Photography is also by Miguel de Guzmán.
Here’s a project description from Elii Architects:
Project for the complete refurbishment of an attic in downtown Madrid
The scope of the project covers from the development of a customised functional proposal for a user that is turning a new leaf to the rehabilitation of the structure, the insulation, the facilities and the modernisation of the existing construction systems.
The selected approach removes all obstacles from the floor to provide the greatest possible flexibility. Two basic elements are used: firstly, the central core, comprising the staircase, some shelves and the larder. The core is at the centre of the main space under the mansard roof. It connects the access floor and the space under the roof and allows the natural lighting coming through the roof into the living room. Secondly, there are two side strips for the functional elements (kitchen, bathroom, storage space and domestic appliances).
This basic arrangement is complemented by two strategies that provide flexibility to the domestic spaces.
Firstly, the moving panels that are integrated into the core and run along guide rails. These panels can be used to create different arrangements, such as adding an extra room for a guest, separating the kitchen from the living room area or opening the whole floor for a party. The panels have transparent sections so that the natural lighting coming through the mansard roof can reach this space.
Secondly, the secret trap doors that are integrated into the ceiling of the access floor and into the floor of the mezzanine and that house the rest of the domestic functions. The ceiling doors are opened with handles fitted on the walls. These handles actuate pulleys that lower part of the furniture (such as tables and the picnic benches, a swing or the hammock) or some complementary functions and objects (such as the disco ball, the fans to chill out on the hammock or an extra shelf for the guest room).
In addition, the floor of the space under the roof has a series of invisible doors that can be opened to alter the functionality of the raised space where the bedroom area is (these spaces house the dressing table, the tea room and the storage spaces for the bathroom).
All these elements are integrated within the floor and the ceiling and they appear and disappear at the user’s whim. The secret trap doors and the sliding panels complement the basic configuration, fit the needs of the moment and provide different home layout combinations.
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Focus sur la nouvelle installation et intervention du street-artist Spy à Madrid avec plus de 150 fausses caméras de surveillance sur la façade de cette maison en Espagne. L’artiste espagnol est connu pour son appropriation des éléments urbains pour faire connaître son message. Plus d’images dans la suite.
The owner of this Madrid apartment moves between living and working spaces like a character in a computer game, using ladders that connect platforms inserted in a single tall, narrow space.
“[It] leads to an image that looks like those old computer platform games,” said Spanish architects MYCC, who created the live-work space in a 100 cubic-metre volume.
The architects described the volume as “an empty box waiting to be filled,” adding: “The idea of light and simple floors where it could be possible to easily jump from one to another was always in mind from the very first sketches.”
A mixture of ladders and staircases connect each of the platforms in the space, which is just 20 square metres in plan.
“Size, both horizontal and vertical, of every part gives a non-lineal path,” added the architects. “So, moving from one room to another is a kind of small physical effort.”
The entrance lobby steps up to the kitchen, then more stairs lead down to a living area on the opposite side.
A steel ladder mounted onto the side wall can be climbed to access a mezzanine study, while a sleeping area is tucked underneath.
A final set of stairs leads down from the living room into a bathroom located beneath the kitchen.
Walls, floors and ceilings are all finished in white, so the only splashes of colour come from items of furniture and framed artworks.
Photography is by Elena Almagro.
Here’s a project description from MYCC:
100m3 apartment
This singular urban shelter is just twenty square metres and nevertheless is one hundred cubic metres of volume. In such an enclosed space should a single person live and work. He will use his creativity and dynamism to make it his own sweet home.
A longitudinal section defines the project. The space highness has been used to accommodate several pieces, which are limited in volume but at the same time all are visually connected to each other. Even the bathroom is within sight.
The necessity to hold the programmed uses, each of them with specific characteristics and size, leads to an image which looks like those old computers platform games. The idea of light and simple floors where could be possible even easily jump from one to another was always in mind from the very first sketches.
Size, both horizontal and vertical, of every piece gives as a result a non lineal path. So, moving from one room to another is a kind of small physical effort.
Going up to the kitchen or getting down to the bedroom offers a stressed change and different sensation of the space, both any different unit and the apartment as a whole.
The apartment, even with its small size, wants to offer generous spaces and a big quantity of different pieces of use. The pieces that make it up, does not really have a fixed clearly defined use: the kitchen is a walk-through room to get the living. There are stands rather than stairs to go down the living, which is over a cellar-storage room. Then, it is possible to get the ladder to go up to the indoor sunny terrace, a place to be used as a study or a chill out. Also the central living room connects through four steps to the bathroom. This is an oversized kind of luxury room that holds even an in-situ cosy kind of hamman bath.
Construction and finishing are made in a direct and unadorned way and all is full of bright white.
Architects: MYCC (Carmina Casajuana, Beatriz G. Casares, Marcos Gonzalez)
Location: Madrid, Spain
Area: 21m2
Volume: 100m3
Date: 2012
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Colour-coded meeting rooms and private workspaces are tucked behind wooden arches at the Google offices in Madrid by London practice Jump Studios (+ slideshow).
For Google‘s headquarters in the Spanish capital, Jump Studios fitted out two floors of the Torre Picasso – a high-rise to the north of Madrid city centre.
“The office spaces now boast a higher degree of flexibility and functionality, which fulfil the aspirations of the client who wanted a unique and friendly workplace with local character,” said the studio.
The lower level houses the reception area, lecture theatre and canteen, as well as office space.
Graphics and patterns are printed on the walls, ceiling and around the front of the reception desk.
The kitchen serving the canteen is surrounded by a curved wall clad in cork, which contains storage shelves and cabinets.
On the floor above, timber arches designed to reflect traditional Spanish architecture separate the workspace around the outside of the floor from meeting rooms and cubicles for private work.
There’s also a multi-functional recreation area with a ping-pong table and self-catering equipment.
Google is springing up new offices across the globe. Earlier this year Allford Hall Monaghan Morris applied for planning permission to construct a 27-hectare headquarters for the company in London’s King’s Cross.
Here’s the information sent to us by the designers:
Google Madrid HQ
The extensive fit out and refurbishment of Google’s Madrid HQ sets new standards in office interior design on the Iberian peninsula.
Jump Studios, a London based architecture practice with a recently launched satellite office in Lisbon, has completed Google’s new Madrid office using advanced materials to deliver a highly sustainable and inspiring new workplace for the company’s Iberian operations.
Jump Studios is currently shortlisted for the BD Architect of the Year 2013 Award in the Interior Architecture category for a range of projects including Google Madrid.
Overview
The Google Madrid project comprises the fit out of two floors in one of Madrid’s most prestigious high-rise buildings – Torre Picasso.
Working with the concept of a timber arched core element – a reference to the spatial and material qualities of traditional Spanish architecture – the scheme has greatly improved the efficiency of the floorplate and created a highly characteristic ambience that is relaxed and sophisticated at the same time.
The office spaces now boast a higher degree of flexibility and functionality, which fulfil the aspirations of the client who wanted a unique and friendly workplace with local character.
Now an approachable and usable space with a strong identity, productivity has greatly increased.
Project Details
The lower of the two adjacent levels occupied by the client houses the main reception, lecture theatre, canteen and a multi-functional area with fully equipped kitchen catering for the entire office.
On the upper level can be found the bulk of the office space as well as more extensive breakout spaces with room for games, additional informal presentation areas, shower facilities, a massage room and hammock area.
The overall layout and arrangement of particular spaces and elements has been carefully considered and developed to suit the working style of the company in general while meeting the more exact needs and requirements of the local workforce.
The very specific acoustic requirements of the project for both the meeting rooms and the individual video conferencing cabins necessitated the careful selection of subcontractors and the very close co-ordination of all the teams involved to provide both robust and aesthetically pleasing solutions and details.
The use of sustainable materials contributed to the project’s LEED Gold rating.
Project Delivery and Sustainability
The project was delivered in five separate phases, which allowed the offices to remain open throughout.
It involved a high level of co-ordination and collaboration between the architectural, engineering and contracting teams – Jump Studios, Deerns and Construcía with strong project management from Artelia Spain.
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The rooms of this wooden house in a forest near Madrid by local architects FRPO branch off in different directions to slot into gaps between the trees (+ slideshow).
FRPO was asked to design a family home that was sensitive to its natural environs and chose to distribute the rooms across the site in a series of interconnected boxes.
“The powerful presence of the trees and the wish to have a house integrated in the woods led to a disaggregated solution,” said the architects.
Several possibilities for the position of the various boxes were explored before the architects settled on the most suitable solution.
The boxes nestle beneath the branches of the trees, which also occupy spaces between the numerous angled external walls.
The building is constructed from cross-laminated wood panels that remove the need for destructive foundations and provide excellent thermal insulation.
FRPO explained that the choice of wood allowed them to create a structure that is “insulating, continuous, lightweight, precise and extremely thin,” and described it as “wood in the woods.”
The wooden theme continues inside the building, where painted timber panelling covers the walls, and a table with a thick wooden top occupies the dining room.
From an entrance at the centre of the plan, corridors branch off towards the master bedroom and two rooms for the family’s children at one end of the house, and a kitchen, dining area and living room at the other end.
A single taller box contains a study space that is accessed by a spiralling staircase.
Photography is by FRPO, Miguel de Guzmán.
Here are some more details from the architects:
MO House by FRPO
Systematic freedom
In 2010 we received a commission to design a single-family house in a forest in the outskirts of Madrid. Although the programmatic requirements were conventional, the site would demand a complex geometry. The powerful presence of the trees and the wish to have a house integrated in the woods led to a disaggregated solution. The program was transferred in a very direct and natural way to a number of simple rectangular pieces. The different topological relations between the pieces determined a series of useful solutions, 24 in the end. The optimal version was selected and the plan of the MO House was this way defined.
The MO House project belongs to a family of projects developed in the office beginning in 2005. These projects explore the possibilities of generating architectural complexity out of the combination of simple elements. Throughout this process of projects, conditioned by a large number of specifications settled by the clients, we have been forced to systematize every design decision in order to simplify the process to its full capacity. The results produce a nice surprise: the combination of a number of extremely simple spaces offer an extremely rich spatial experience. We have found a powerful tool to work with. We can use this system in very different situations. Some very simple basic rules and a series of pieces with adequate proportions will result in an endless range of solutions.
Wood in the woods
The final arrangement of the MO House plan opened two technical issues that put the solution into question: the high variety of angles in the joints between pieces and a penalized shape factor that would result in a negative impact on the energetic performance of the house (an elevated façade-volume ratio). In addition to that, another key issue aroused: proximity of trees required a little aggressive foundation system.
The technical solution adopted in a first approach – steel skeleton with concrete slabs – did not seem viable. We needed a lighter system that could be assembled in a more accurate way. It had to be simple – like the plan – and thermally favourable. On a visit to his studio, a friend showed us a cross-laminated wood panel by KLH. The product met all the requirements: a solid structural material with high insulating performance and CNC manufactured at their Austrian factory. The house would be solid wood. Wood in the woods. 72 mm thick walls. Slabs from 95 to 182 mm.
The total weight of the structure would not reach one third of a conventional system. The foundations could therefore be made of galvanized steel micropiles only 2 meters long. The panels would be manufactured by numerical control cutting, ensuring accuracy at all angles. The structure would be insulating, continuous, lightweight, precise and extremely thin. The floor of the house could be a direct transposition of the work scheme. The installation process would be fast and accurate.
The nature of the project remained intact and its technical requirements had led us to the discovery of a new field of project possibilities.
Location: Madrid, Spain
Program: housing
Project start: 2010
Project completion: 2012
Surface: 295 m2
Architecture: FRPO Rodriguez & Oriol ARCHITECTURE LANDSCAPE, Pablo Oriol, Fernando Rodríguez.
Collaborators: Pastora Cotero, Inés Olavarrieta, Cornelius Schmitz, Cristina Escuder
Contractor: Alter Materia, Grupo Singular
Consultants: KLH, Alter Materia, Miguel Nevado
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Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza has extended a house he completed 25 years ago in Madrid by adding a boxy white studio in the garden.
First completed in 1988, Turégano House was designed by Alberto Campo Baeza as the home for graphic designer Roberto Turégano and his partner, actress Alicia Sánchez.
The couple requested the addition of a small garden studio to serve as a workplace for Turégano.
Campo Baeza’s concept for the main house had been to create a simple white cube, so for the extension he decided to create a volume that appears to be an exact quarter of the existing structure.
“Next to the ‘cubic white cabin’ we built a little white box,” he explained.
Glazing is positioned at the two ends of the building, offering residents a view right through, while the two long elevations are left as austere white surfaces.
To strengthen this relationship with the house, the architect installed an identical stone floor inside the studio. “Thus the two pieces are in complete harmony,” he added.
The final addition to the space is a circular skylight, intended as a counterpoint to the strict rectilinear arrangement maintained elsewhere.
Campo Baeza has also recently completed a pair of houses in Spain – a poet’s residence with a secret garden in Zaragoza and a concrete hilltop house in Toledo.
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Photography is by Miguel De Guzmán.
Here’s a project description from Alberto Campo Baeza:
Little White Box
Next to the “cubic white cabin” we built a little white box.
Some time ago I wrote a text entitled “Boxes, little boxes, big boxes”. And my first box-project that I created and built was Turégano House, in Pozuelo-Madrid, almost 25 years ago. A white cube measuring 10x10x10 metres: a “cubic white cabin”.
So now to celebrate the event after all these years Roberto Turégano y Alicia Sánchez, who are now more friends than clients, have asked me to build this new piece. Alicia Sánchez is one of the leading actresses of the Spanish stage and Roberto Turégano one of our foremost graphic designers. And this little piece will be his studio at the foot of his house.
The result is very simple: a little box measuring 10x5x3 metres, as if it were a quarter of that cube. The new piece is in line with the existing one in its external walls and the use of the same stone floor ensures continuity with the house inside and outside. Thus the two pieces are in complete harmony. The short external walls of the new white box are entirely open, transparent and continuous. A large circular skylight in the ceiling is the counterpoint to this spatial arrangement.
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