Located on a characteristic street in Madrid’s Barrio de Salamanca, the attic is part of the seventh floor of a typical twentieth-century building. The project by Langarita Navarro Arquitectos followed two strategies. The first was to maintain all of the singular features that made the original space so unique: architects respected the original 7 meters high volume, the divided panes of the picture window, the old pine floors and the original wood doors.
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The second was to work on the space through specific operations that were coherent with the logic of the building of large-scale furniture or garden elements. In the main area, architects rebuilt a precarious loft using a solution that resolved both structural and air conditioning issues, minimizing its visual impact. In the rooms, a wall of closets and a window form a permeable border with the exterior. The south terrace was conceived of as another room, in which a network of climbing vines (roses, wisteria, ivy and jasmine) creates an aromatic and intimate oasis.
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- Project:
- Penthouse H
- Location:
- Madrid
- Program:
- apartment
- Architect:
- María Langarita and Víctor Navarro
- Collaborators:
- Policarpo del Canto, Havi Navarro
- Contractor:
- Manuel Ocaña Fast & Furious Production Office
- Structural engineering and installations:
- Mecanismo
- Completion:
- 2017