The perfect combination of knack, style, and class. Office for XEITO Investments by ENORME Studio
27/09/2020.
[MAD] Spain
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The Spanish studio Enorme Studio has concluded the project for the Madrid office of the company XEITO Investments a company focused on investing in industrial companies and sustainable mobility.
The elaborated project shapes a multi-function space with the ability to evolve. This means that it is both an office, a project showroom, and a place for exchanging ideas and events in the heart of Madrid.
The elaborated project shapes a multi-function space with the ability to evolve. This means that it is both an office, a project showroom, and a place for exchanging ideas and events in the heart of Madrid.
Office for XEITO Investments by ENORME Studio. Photograph by Javier de Paz García
Office for XEITO Investments by ENORME Studio. Photograph by Javier de Paz García
Office for XEITO Investments by ENORME Studio. Photograph by Javier de Paz García
Office for XEITO Investments by ENORME Studio. Photograph by Javier de Paz García
Office for XEITO Investments by ENORME Studio. Photograph by Javier de Paz García
Office for XEITO Investments by ENORME Studio. Photograph by Javier de Paz García
Office for XEITO Investments by ENORME Studio. Photograph by Javier de Paz García
Office for XEITO Investments by ENORME Studio. Photograph by Javier de Paz García
Office for XEITO Investments by ENORME Studio. Photograph by Javier de Paz García
Office for XEITO Investments by ENORME Studio. Photograph by Javier de Paz García
Office for XEITO Investments by ENORME Studio. Photograph by Javier de Paz García
Office for XEITO Investments by ENORME Studio. Photograph by Javier de Paz García
Office for XEITO Investments by ENORME Studio. Photograph by Javier de Paz García
Office for XEITO Investments by ENORME Studio. Photograph by Javier de Paz García
Office for XEITO Investments by ENORME Studio. Photograph by Javier de Paz García
Office for XEITO Investments by ENORME Studio. Photograph by Javier de Paz García
Office for XEITO Investments by ENORME Studio. Photograph by Javier de Paz García
Office for XEITO Investments by ENORME Studio. Photograph by Javier de Paz García
Office for XEITO Investments by ENORME Studio. Photograph by Javier de Paz García
Office for XEITO Investments by ENORME Studio. Photograph by Javier de Paz García
Office for XEITO Investments by ENORME Studio. Photograph by Javier de Paz García
Office for XEITO Investments by ENORME Studio. Photograph by Javier de Paz García
Office for XEITO Investments by ENORME Studio. Photograph by Javier de Paz García
Office for XEITO Investments by ENORME Studio. Photograph by Javier de Paz García
Office for XEITO Investments by ENORME Studio. Photograph by Javier de Paz García
Office for XEITO Investments by ENORME Studio. Photograph by Javier de Paz García
Office for XEITO Investments by ENORME Studio. Photograph by Javier de Paz García
Office for XEITO Investments by ENORME Studio. Photograph by Javier de Paz García
Office for XEITO Investments by ENORME Studio. Photograph by Javier de Paz García
Office for XEITO Investments by ENORME Studio. Photograph by Javier de Paz García
Ground floor plan. Office for XEITO Investments by ENORME Studio
Section. Office for XEITO Investments by ENORME Studio
Axonometry. Office for XEITO Investments by ENORME Studio
Axonometry. Office for XEITO Investments by ENORME Studio
Axonometry. Office for XEITO Investments by ENORME Studio
The main objective of the ENORME Studio project is, on the one hand, to reinforce awareness of the importance of human-centered design and how spaces are capable of triggering collaboration and teamwork as the fundamental engine of projects.
The design is projected around a central circle, through which the different programs and gradients required by the company, ranging from the most collective to the most individual activities, are concatenated and sometimes overlap.
The design is projected around a central circle, through which the different programs and gradients required by the company, ranging from the most collective to the most individual activities, are concatenated and sometimes overlap.
Description of project by ENORME Studio
The world seems to have changed a lot since we started the project of this office space until it has finally come to light, with pandemic included in the middle of the building proc
However, all our inicial ideas prove us once again that thinking about spaces in terms of flexibility permit projects to be reborn stronger than before.
Xeito investments, a Family Office of the Mahía Solís family, co-founders of the CAAMAÑO group, is a company orientated towards investing in industrial businesses and sustainable movement. With its Galician DNA but an international projection, their work philosophy is to do things “with xeito”, which in Galician means doing things with a combination of knack, style and class.
The Xeito team gets in touch with us to shape a multifunctional space with capability to evolve with time but at the same time be an office, project showroom and a space to exchange ideas and events in the heart of the city of Madrid with views of the Retiro park.
This is why the heart of the project revolves around a circle, a complete viewing angle of 360º, a central meeting point that articulates the space and also welcomes future visitors.
Xeito is a meeting place that is transparent, open and dynamic, linked to projects that support innovation applied to the improvement of people’s wellness in living, work or comercial spaces.
The individual workspace is situated in the first level, in which the arch of the circle offers the possibility to have a clean vision of the space without the interference of other people, to try to achieve the greatest level of concentration without the need of creating separated spaces while assuring the safety distance needed in these times.
Next we find the auditorium for presentations of informal projects, a library and a central space with can be used for conferences, exhibitions, events and presentations.
The closed spaces are reduced to the minimum, like the isolated telephone booth, designed in glass to be always visible or the meeting rooms, one more formal and representative, presided over by a misty Galician forest and a smaller dynamic one that incorporates into the common space with a system of sliding doors.
All of the open areas articulate with a double curtain system, each presenting a different gradient of transparency and opacity that enables the space to be configured for up to 10 different situations: when completely shut creating a blue cylinder that hides a model in its interior or closing only te first half of the perimeter separating the concentration zones from the more public ones.
The complete office uses partitions with pivoting and folding doors that can create, if necessary, a continuos room contemplating the 100% of the surface of the office as one sole space for celebrations for bigger crowds.
The materials, furniture and systems chosen all have the same common criteria: sustainability, design and durability.
The main objective of the project is on one hand reinforcing the awareness of the importance of design targeted towards the human being and how spaces are able to detonate collaboration and teamwork as the fundamental motor of projects.
More information
Architects
Collaborators
Project Manager.- PROJECT CONSORTIUM.
Client
XEITO Investments, Family Office of family Mahía Solís.
Builder
Grupo CAAMAÑO.
Dates
2020.
Manufacturers
Porcelain floors.- MUTINA Pico and 41 Zero 42 SOLO White / Black. Tiles.- 41 ZERO 42 Olive green biscuit / 41 Zero 42 SOLO White / Black. Wood carpentry.- Fibracolor Gray with FINSA Maple wood veneer, birch slats and birch wood carpentry. Pivoting doors with FRITJURGENS hardware. Wallpaper.- Yuconic from TECNOGRAFICA. Lighting.- I-GUZZINI. Curtains and upholstery.- VESCOM. Custom furniture.- CAAMAÑO. Furniture.- NORMAN CONPENHAGE / HAY Design.
Location
Street Alfonso XII, 32 Madrid, Spain.
Photography
Carmelo Rodríguez, Rocío Pina and David Pérez ENORME STUDIO
ENORME Studio is the evolution of three co-founders of PKMN Architectures, they're Carmelo Rodríguez, Rocío Pina and David Pérez. After having collaborated for ten years on more than one hundred projects they've just started with a new shared initiative that keeps the same radical approach to architecture. They design and build ARCHITECTURE PROJECTS based on industrial systems and typological innovation.
They're specialists in mobile systems design applied to housing, office design and retail. They have changed the traditional concept of room in architecture, creating spaces that are easily converted through simple gestures. They design and perform participation dynamics in the domain of city construction through their creative services platform CIUDAD CREA CIUDAD and the creation of CITIZENSHIP BRAND IDENTITIES. Their aim is to foster alternative ways to examine urban issues and to motivate the creation of a proactive citizen culture. They design and apply TACTICAL URBANISM tools that transfer teamwork strategies and collective thinking dynamics into public and private space design and management. Their aim is to give the city back to citizens as an emotional, plural and relational space.
They're specialists in mobile systems design applied to housing, office design and retail. They have changed the traditional concept of room in architecture, creating spaces that are easily converted through simple gestures. They design and perform participation dynamics in the domain of city construction through their creative services platform CIUDAD CREA CIUDAD and the creation of CITIZENSHIP BRAND IDENTITIES. Their aim is to foster alternative ways to examine urban issues and to motivate the creation of a proactive citizen culture. They design and apply TACTICAL URBANISM tools that transfer teamwork strategies and collective thinking dynamics into public and private space design and management. Their aim is to give the city back to citizens as an emotional, plural and relational space.
