This project is located in a residential area in the center of Madrid, near AZCA financial center. The house replicates the preexisting volume, building a light-weight house which extends an existing 1920s basque-style listed house. Early 20th Century traditional building techniques give way to contemporary ones. The original load-bearing high thermal-inertia walls are extended with a steel lightweight multilayered façade, which interact thermodynamically to produce a variety of climates.
A technical core is added which reactivates the existing building, introducing a vertical shaft which enhances the natural ventilation of the whole house, acting as a climatic mixing chamber.
A new outdoor lightweight ramp is superimposed over preexisting constructions creating a new entrance to the house. This ramp casts shadows over outdoor areas which, together with a new vertical garden and a water-spray system, contributes to create comfortable and intense summer indoor-outdoor atmospheres.
The new vertical garden adds biological density to the small-sized existing garden. The limits of the garden are extruded vertically, creating a tridimensional mesh which will promote the growth of creepers. The aim is not to seclude the garden but to enhance its biological interconnection to neighboring gardens.
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Location: Colonia Bellas Artes y Prensa, Madrid
Date: 2010-2012
Client: Private
Area: 880 m²
Project architects: TAAs (Javier García-Germán + Alia García-Germán)
Project team: Alia García-Germán,Ignacio González Carriles, María Purriños, Jesús Sanabria, Encarna Serna, Zhou Zewo
Site supervision: Javier García-Germán
Consultants: GARVAL ingenieros
Quantity Surveyor: Alfonso Barrón, Joaquín Riveiro + Martín Bilbao
Contractor: FMS construcciones
Budget: 1.900.000 €
Photography: Miguel de Guzmán