Matilde Peralta del Amo creates, in one of the military homes, characterized by “their conceptual pragmatism and the kindness of the two community gardens”, a workshop/office being a good environment for new workers.
It is a project that has been created over a period of time, completing it with the work done in it. As architectural works, tapestries and lamps…
Project description by Matilde Peralta del Amo
In the 50’s, in the North of Madrid, the Bazán National Company of Military Naval Constructions built this housing community for its employees. The houses are arranged around two courtyards/gardens and in the middle of these there is a small school for the children of the workers.
The houses are built with a very clear structure some 5-floor combs with reinforced concrete structure on the facades and another central structural line.
More than 70 years later, these homes with their conceptual pragmatism and the kindness of the two community gardens remain attractive to the new workers of the 21st century.
This workshop/office is installed in one of these homes, it deals with different types of work. Architecture projects, tapestries, lamps are made… All the intervention has been developed over time. A period from 2013 to February 2019, has continuously been restructuring, integrating the traces of the work that is done in it and other circumstances and needs that have implications in the space and its materiality.
