The open indefinition of domestic space. Loft I by Coll-Barreu arquitectos
21/09/2023.
[MAD] Spain
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The architect Juan Coll - Barreu, was commissioned to design the renovation of this loft, located on Paseo de la Castellana, the main artery of mobility and structuring of Madrid. The building was built in 1955 and with the passage of time and the passing of its different owners, the house has been used for different uses (previously it was an office) accompanied by successive renovations.
The project aims to express the idea of spatial continuity and functional in definition, capable of absorbing transitions and the flow of new occupants, for which a dialogue has been established in which different identities, materials, and textures coexist, achieving the perception of a space. open and unlimited.
The project aims to express the idea of spatial continuity and functional in definition, capable of absorbing transitions and the flow of new occupants, for which a dialogue has been established in which different identities, materials, and textures coexist, achieving the perception of a space. open and unlimited.
Loft I by Coll-Barreu arquitectos. Photograph by Coll-Barreu arquitectos
Loft I by Coll-Barreu arquitectos. Photograph by Coll-Barreu arquitectos
Loft I by Coll-Barreu arquitectos. Photograph by Coll-Barreu arquitectos
Loft I by Coll-Barreu arquitectos. Photograph by Coll-Barreu arquitectos
Loft I by Coll-Barreu arquitectos. Photograph by Coll-Barreu arquitectos
Loft I by Coll-Barreu arquitectos. Photograph by Coll-Barreu arquitectos
Loft I by Coll-Barreu arquitectos. Photograph by Coll-Barreu arquitectos
Loft I by Coll-Barreu arquitectos. Photograph by Coll-Barreu arquitectos
Loft I by Coll-Barreu arquitectos. Photograph by Coll-Barreu arquitectos
Loft I by Coll-Barreu arquitectos. Photograph by Coll-Barreu arquitectos
Loft I by Coll-Barreu arquitectos. Photograph by Coll-Barreu arquitectos
Loft I by Coll-Barreu arquitectos. Photograph by Coll-Barreu arquitectos
Loft I by Coll-Barreu arquitectos. Photograph by Coll-Barreu arquitectos
Loft I by Coll-Barreu arquitectos. Photograph by Coll-Barreu arquitectos
Loft I by Coll-Barreu arquitectos. Photograph by Coll-Barreu arquitectos
Loft I by Coll-Barreu arquitectos. Photograph by Coll-Barreu arquitectos
Loft I by Coll-Barreu arquitectos. Photograph by Coll-Barreu arquitectos
Loft I by Coll-Barreu arquitectos. Photograph by Coll-Barreu arquitectos
Loft I by Coll-Barreu arquitectos. Photograph by Coll-Barreu arquitectos
Loft I by Coll-Barreu arquitectos. Photograph by Coll-Barreu arquitectos
Loft I by Coll-Barreu arquitectos. Photograph by Coll-Barreu arquitectos
Loft I by Coll-Barreu arquitectos. Photograph by Coll-Barreu arquitectos
Loft I by Coll-Barreu arquitectos. Photograph by Coll-Barreu arquitectos
Loft I by Coll-Barreu arquitectos. Photograph by Coll-Barreu arquitectos
Loft I by Coll-Barreu arquitectos. Photograph by Coll-Barreu arquitectos
Loft I by Coll-Barreu arquitectos. Photograph by Coll-Barreu arquitectos
Loft I by Coll-Barreu arquitectos. Photograph by Coll-Barreu arquitectos
Loft I by Coll-Barreu arquitectos. Photograph by Coll-Barreu arquitectos
Loft I by Coll-Barreu arquitectos. Photograph by Coll-Barreu arquitectos
Loft I by Coll-Barreu arquitectos. Photograph by Coll-Barreu arquitectos
Axonometry. Loft I by Coll-Barreu arquitectos.
Axonometry. Loft I by Coll-Barreu arquitectos.
Coll-Barreu arquitectos, design a house without limits towards the city and leaving behind the idea of the public and the private. The interior division leaves nothing hidden so that rest, work, air, and the city coexist in the same space.
The house has a reinforced concrete structure, giving the impression of belonging to the building. With the refurbishment, the terrace and the façade are recovered, which thanks to the use of elements from the 50s, also recover the original appearance, an example of this is the lacquered steel railing or the ceramic cladding.
The house has a reinforced concrete structure, giving the impression of belonging to the building. With the refurbishment, the terrace and the façade are recovered, which thanks to the use of elements from the 50s, also recover the original appearance, an example of this is the lacquered steel railing or the ceramic cladding.
Loft I by Coll-Barreu arquitectos. Photograph by Coll-Barreu arquitectos.
Description of project by Coll-Barreu Arquitectos
Loft I is the renovation of an apartment completely disfigured after decades of interior demolition and use as an office. It is located in a 1955 concrete-framed building that was one of the first to frame the stretch of Madrid's Paseo de la Castellana north of Nuevos Ministerios.
The house blurs the boundaries between housing and city in the same way that are now intermingled urban and domestic dynamics, genders, and generations. The materials and the organization of the dwelling avoid the old separation between inside and outside, public and private. It is a continuous space that leaves nothing hidden, suitable for the activities and connections of the contemporary user, for whom production, resting, meeting, the air and vegetation of the city, art, and the body do not reside in separate rooms.
The project intertwined the spatial continuity present in the origin of modernity, the kindness of transatlantic domesticity that inhabited the building for the first time, and the world of transitions, such as the change from the commercial to the domestic that originated the lofts, or the transformation of borders nostalgia into openness and a coexistence of identities, materials, and textures.
Loft I by Coll-Barreu arquitectos. Photograph by Coll-Barreu arquitectos.
The times of construction also overlap. The reinforced concrete structure has been stripped and reveals the apartment's belonging to a collective framework, while the back of the formwork accurately displays every instant of the manual labor that made it possible. The old terrace and the initial facade had completely disappeared; the renovation recovered them by meticulous restorations of elements from the 1950s, such as the unique lacquered steel railing and ceramic claddings of different qualities and sheens that have been restored to their original appearance and location.
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Architects
Coll-Barreu Arquitectos. Lead architect.- Juan Coll - Barreu.
Area
273.66 sqm.
Dates
2023.
Location
Av. Paseo de la Castellana, Madrid, Spain.
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JUAN COLL-BARREU COLL-BARREU ARQUITECTOS
COLL-BARREU ARQUITECTOS, founded by Juan Coll - Barreu in 2001, the office is based in Madrid and Bilbao They are devoted to researching on, designing, and building architecture. Besides, they work in theory, culture, art and communication.
Their work and theoretical production has been widely published, and exhibited in the best architecture galleries in the world, such as the Skyscraper Museum in New York, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Canada's Design Museum in Toronto, Archizoom in Lausanne, and in Spain at the Arquerías in Nuevos Ministerios and the Conde-Duque Center in Madrid, MACBA and the Barcelona Conference Center, Bilbao Fine Arts Museum and numerous chapters of the Spanish Associations of Architects.
Currently, COLL-BARREU ARQUITECTOS develops human environments for public and private functions in different locations and diverse dimensions.
Their work and theoretical production has been widely published, and exhibited in the best architecture galleries in the world, such as the Skyscraper Museum in New York, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Canada's Design Museum in Toronto, Archizoom in Lausanne, and in Spain at the Arquerías in Nuevos Ministerios and the Conde-Duque Center in Madrid, MACBA and the Barcelona Conference Center, Bilbao Fine Arts Museum and numerous chapters of the Spanish Associations of Architects.
Currently, COLL-BARREU ARQUITECTOS develops human environments for public and private functions in different locations and diverse dimensions.
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