Zigzag Arquitectura studio toghether with Rodrigo Delso designed, in the heart of Madrid, the renovation of an old laundry converted into a new functional workspace with a minimal ecological footprint.

This space was abandoned after being used as a car workshop, becoming an urban ruin, degraded due to its misuse, and with little natural light.
The Zigzag Arquitectura team and Rodrigo Delso approached the project intending to turn the basement back into a comfortable and habitable place with the maximum possible light and ventilation, creating double heights and gaps through the slab.

Also, an open plan system was proposed in which the different areas and uses are separated through large flowerbeds full of vegetation, allowing the office to be perceived as an outdoor space similar to the street.
 

Description of project by Zigzag Arquitectura and Rodrigo Delso

We think of cities as always full, frenetic and crowded, but there are still voids abandoned by the voracity of new construction; pockets of air forgotten in a system that prefers the new to making the existing sustainable.

One such place is in the center of Madrid, in the courtyard of a historic building dating from 1859. Originally a beautiful washing place, it ended up as the abandoned ruin of a car workshop: degraded, damp and without natural light.

3D3N project gives a second chance to this urban ruin, giving value to its existing heritage with a new ecological awareness that considers it essential to reduce the ecological footprint of architecture. 3D3N is a workspace that revolves around the introduction of the natural into the working world, through the following strategies:

1. Cutting through the existing floor slab to make the basement habitable, giving it as much natural light and ventilation as possible, creating courtyards. Now, from the basement it is possible to see the clouds in the sky.

2. Creating hybrid devices around the courtyards through the aggregation of simple elements (stairs, table, bench, patio or planters). These new spatial entities-islands are capable of keeping the building as clean, luminous and diaphanous as possible.

3. Developing an open plan system with privacy zones between the different work groups through the use of vegetation, allowing the interior space to be perceived as if it were an exterior. The walls are plants with different degrees of density and opacity.

4. Multiplying the uses of the spaces that transforms the former vehicle ramp, a place with an intense relationship with the street, into an urban filter and a grandstand for holding events, exhibitions and collective projections.


From a new ecological awareness, 3D3N works in the center of a congested city with a limited budget and sustainable materials from the creative reinterpretation of historical heritage and the construction of oases outside the urban frenzy that bring the city closer to sustainability and nature.

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Zigzag Arquitectura. Bernardo Angelini, David Casino (project + construction phase). Rodrigo Delso (project phase).
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Clara Buenadicha. Quantity Surveyor.- Alberto López. Structures.- Jesús Crespo. MEP.- Juan Alacid. Landscaping.- Carmen Varela.
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Catorce.
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600 sqm.
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Comienzo Proyecto.- junio 2018. Comienzo Obra.- enero 2019. Fin de Obra.- noviembre 2020.
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Avenida Ciudad de Barcelona 47-49, Madrid, Spain.
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Zigzag arquitectura, is a Madrid-based architecture firm established by Bernardo Angelini and David Casino, in 2005.

Bernardo Angelini is an architect, Master in Advanced Architectural Projects from ETSAM and professor of projects at URJC. Previously, he also taught at IE University and UPSAM.

David Casino is Doctor in Architect, Master in Advanced Architectural Projects from ETSAM and professor of projects at the same school. He previously taught at UEM, IE University and ESNE.

Their work has been recognized with the Architecture Award at the XI BEAU Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism 2011 and other prestigious distinctions, among which are: AR + d Awards for Emerging Architecture 2011 (Highly Commended Project); Ugo Rivolta European Architecture Awards 2011 (Progetto Segnalato); V Enor Architecture Awards 2011 (Finalist); III Prize Arquía Próxima 2012 (Finalist); Triennal Architecture of Neccesity 2013 (Finalist); XVI COACAN Architecture Awards 2014 (Special Public Prize) and XIII BEAU Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism 2016 (Finalist I Call for Research, Product Category). It has recently obtained the First Prize in the competition for the new UC3M Biomedical Sciences building. His work has been published in numerous national and international media and has been part of various group exhibitions.
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Rodrigo Delso is a PhD in Architect from ETSAM and a Master in Research Architecture (Goldsmiths University. He is a professor in the Department of Architectural Projects at ETSAM and a researcher at the Hypermedia Group, having developed his academic activity also at Lund University, the Illinois Institute of Technology or the Royal Academy of Arts The Hague Together with Javier Argota, he is co-founder of the JARD studio (www.jard.us) dedicated to the investigation of artificial and automatic architectures, having been awarded in national and international architectural competitions and exhibitions.
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