Salud

In this 170 sqm flat situated in the centre of Madrid, with 4 east-facing and 4 westfacing balconies, we project a layout that visually connects both facades in order to cross the light, the ventilation and the circulation of the house. This connection must be generous, avoiding a corridor.

In the eastern face, we dispose the living room with 3 balconies and the master bedroom; and in the western face we place 2 more bedrooms.

In order to open the space we decide to place the kitchen- dining room in the centre of the layout plan with natural light from 2 interior patios. This gives life to the kitchen turning it into the neuralgic centre of the house.

This project mainly focuses on the ceilings. We decided to create a ceiling project due to several constraints, such as different heights, main beams in the transitions…so this would create a neat and calm feeling in the different spaces. Each space remains still and static, and the time stops.

This is, surely, the most important goal in our project: to stop the time and to create calm and visual comfort spaces, where the dynamism and diagonals are excluded. The material selection must also add to this goal. This way, a monochrome ambience in bone colour provides visual peace due to the fact that our view hardly comes to an end, and it generates a unique built object in terms of architecture and decoration, where the air, the emptiness, the light and the shadows define the spaces.

Mixed lime finish in the ceiling, textile in the walls, wooden carpentry and travertine counters provide quality, craftsmanship and warmness for a house that invites us to think, due to its introspection, achieving a disconnection between its aesthetics and its context (centre of Madrid), but simultaneously, it remains connected with its 8 balconies to the metropolitan chaos, turning the house into an own personal temple. A house.

OOAA Arquitectura
Styling and focus: Iker Ochotorena