Islas Británicas
Madrid
Renovation of a house on the street Islas Británicas. The project focuses on the rehabilitation of a traditional semi-detached house in the urban centre of the Fuencarral neighbourhood in Madrid. The main intervention of the project was to connect the two-storey house with the workshop area at the back of the courtyard. A corridor connecting the two volumes was built using an existing clothesline.
All daytime activities take place on the ground floor, while the upper floor houses the night areas. On the ground floor, a third bedroom space is incorporated as a guest space, directly connected to the patio.
All the common areas open onto the courtyard on two levels, which represents the centre of the entire home. The connecting corridor is narrow to take up as little space as possible from the courtyard. This space widens into the office-library area. These two spaces are completely camouflaged with the courtyard. The same flooring and large sliding windows were used to merge them and expand the interior. The intention was to make the intervention at a spatial level imperceptible. In this way we have a courtyard exactly like the one we found here and a hybrid interior-exterior space as the centre of the intervention.