Developing over time. Renovation of an office by Matilde Peralta del Amo
05/03/2020.
[MAD] Spain
MARYAN RODRÍGUEZ BUERGO
MARYAN RODRÍGUEZ BUERGO
The Spanish architect Matilde Peralta del Amo was commissioned to site a workshop/office in one of the homes of the housing community done for the employees of the Bazán National Company of Military Naval Constructions.
Renovation of an office in Madrid by Matilde Peralta del Amo. Photography by Luis Asin.
Renovation of an office in Madrid by Matilde Peralta del Amo. Photography by Luis Asin.
Renovation of an office in Madrid by Matilde Peralta del Amo. Photography by Luis Asin.
Renovation of an office in Madrid by Matilde Peralta del Amo. Photography by Luis Asin.
Renovation of an office in Madrid by Matilde Peralta del Amo. Photography by Luis Asin.
Renovation of an office in Madrid by Matilde Peralta del Amo. Photography by Luis Asin.
Renovation of an office in Madrid by Matilde Peralta del Amo. Photography by Luis Asin.
Renovation of an office in Madrid by Matilde Peralta del Amo. Photography by Luis Asin.
Renovation of an office in Madrid by Matilde Peralta del Amo. Photography by Luis Asin.
Renovation of an office in Madrid by Matilde Peralta del Amo. Photography by Luis Asin.
Renovation of an office in Madrid by Matilde Peralta del Amo. Photography by Luis Asin.
Renovation of an office in Madrid by Matilde Peralta del Amo. Photography by Luis Asin.
Renovation of an office in Madrid by Matilde Peralta del Amo. Photography by Luis Asin.
Renovation of an office in Madrid by Matilde Peralta del Amo. Photography by Luis Asin.
Renovation of an office in Madrid by Matilde Peralta del Amo. Photography by Luis Asin.
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.
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Matilde Peralta del Amo
Matilde Peralta del Amo was born in Madrid, in 1966, in a family dedicated to puppets. At eleven the was already part of the family company, with which she toured, many theaters in Spain and Europe. She studied architecture at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, where she later did the master’s degree in Bioclimatic Architecture and Environment.
Matilde Peralta has had great teachers, worked with Víctor López Cotelo and for sixteen years in the office of Mansilla y Tuñón, architects. She has been a professor at the Toledo School of Architecture at the University of Castilla La Mancha and at the Superior School of Design in Madrid.
She has been commissioned with projects and rehabilitation works mainly, such as the Navalmoral de la Mata Market Theater (Cáceres), the Reading Room of the Bank of Spain and the Archive of San Fernando (currently under construction) and many competitions of architecture.
She coordinates her work in the architecture office with other experiences in the field of architecture, design and research with fabrics and tapestries. Between 2005 and 2012 he has taken summer courses on textiles at Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design (London).
Matilde Peralta has had great teachers, worked with Víctor López Cotelo and for sixteen years in the office of Mansilla y Tuñón, architects. She has been a professor at the Toledo School of Architecture at the University of Castilla La Mancha and at the Superior School of Design in Madrid.
She has been commissioned with projects and rehabilitation works mainly, such as the Navalmoral de la Mata Market Theater (Cáceres), the Reading Room of the Bank of Spain and the Archive of San Fernando (currently under construction) and many competitions of architecture.
She coordinates her work in the architecture office with other experiences in the field of architecture, design and research with fabrics and tapestries. Between 2005 and 2012 he has taken summer courses on textiles at Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design (London).
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