Achitecture practice, Pulso Estudio, has renovated an office in the Salamanca neighbourhood, one of the most expensive in the centre of the city of Madrid. The project overlooks Calle Serrano, the main avenue of the Castro expansion. The arteries of this neighbourhood are structured in the form of a grid following the guidelines proposed by Ildefons Cerda.

Originally, the renovated floor was a home that was transformed into an office and that had reached the present day with a compartmentalized and hierarchical distribution common in offices in the 1990s. The studio has decided to renovate the spaces to reorganize them, generating open-plan rooms that adapt to current needs.
The floor plan, where the office is located, has been reorganized by the architecture studio Pulso Estudio. He has designed a lobby that is accessed by three elevators. It is connected to a distributor with partitions with LED screens that can change colour and project audiovisual content, that serves to welcome new customers, adapting to company needs.

Users are led to an open space in which work environments are organized. A table with an organic shape, that contrasts with the monotony of classic tables, with a rectangular or circular shape. A three-step circular step presides over the centre of the room, becoming a space for rest and disconnection. This central element is surrounded by more conventional work tables and offices. All the furniture is custom-made and is mobile to allow events and conferences to be held.



Office renovation on Serrano street by Pulso Estudio. Photograph by José Hevia.

Project description by Pulso Estudio

Renovation of a complete floor of offices in a building in the heart of the Salamanca neighborhood in Madrid that involves the reinterpretation of traditional work spaces and the claim of comfort and versatility of creative and collaborative areas.

The plant is distributed in a large open-plan warehouse with office meadows with wide views of Serrano Street and natural lighting throughout the day, connected to a package of offices, meeting rooms and toilet and warehouse areas, with clear and clean circulations through a catalytic element in the main entrance, orbiting all these spaces around the central agora.

The powerful access threshold is a chameleon element made up of special partitions and backlit screens and LED projectors. It can change color and audiovisual content according to the needs of the company, according to the changing uses of the office and the type of event being held. developing inside, in addition to being able to welcome new clients and corporations with its colors and identity.


Office renovation on Serrano street by Pulso Estudio. Photograph by José Hevia.

The central agora with custom-made mobile furniture allows the organization of events and conferences of different levels of formality, both internal and developed as larger events, and also offers the possibility of generating work and relaxation spaces during the working day where they do not exist. events. Furthermore, the curved shapes of this central agora dialogue and coexist with other types of custom furniture that are also sinuous and organic, generating varied situations for different types of meetings and work.

The intervention reorganizes and rationalizes an old, more compartmentalized and hierarchical layout, typical of office spaces from the 90s, and converts the spaces into more pleasant and logical contemporary work areas.

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Custom furniture.- Naturact.
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Harmon Corporate Affairs.

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Gabiteco.

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2024.

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Serrano Street, Salamanca neighborhood, Madrid. Spain.

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José Hevia.

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Pulso Arquitectos is an architectural studio based in Madrid, Spain, founded in 2020 by Juan Aguilar, Carlos Antón, and Miguel López.

Juan Aguilar is an architect by the University of Alcalá (Madrid) and Universitá degli Studi di Sassari (Italy). In 2013 he was part of the Dutch studio Carve.nl, based in Amsterdam. From 2015 to 2019 he worked at Pentamera studio in Madrid and since 2020 he is a partner of Pulso Arquitectos.

Carlos Antón is an architect by the University of Alcalá (Madrid) and Universitá degli Studi dell'Aquila (Italy). After working for 2 years at JMSG Arquitectos (2013-2015), he enjoys an international experience at the hand of Erick van Egeraat in Rotterdam for a year (2015-2016). Since the same year, he collaborates as an architect in Ripoli-Tizón (Mallorca). From 2015 to 2019 he worked at Pentamera studio in Madrid and since 2020 he is a partner of Pulso Arquitectos.

Miguel López is an architect by the University of Alcalá (Madrid) and Warsaw University of Technology (Poland). From 2013 to 2020, he collaborated as an architect at GarcíaGermán Arquitectos (Madrid). From 2015 to 2019 he worked at Pentamera studio in Madrid and since 2020 he is a partner of Pulso Arquitectos.
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Published on: July 13, 2024
Cite: "Decompartmentalize the space. Office renovation on Serrano street by Pulso Estudio" METALOCUS. Accessed
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