This renovation venture in Madrid incorporates a trendy and inventive inside renovation with a number of placing design parts. Glass bricks are used to diffuse pure gentle whereas sustaining privateness, including a retro but modern contact. The roof has been reconstructed, exposing the white-painted beams to emphasise peak and house. The colour palette consists of comfortable pastels mixed with daring accents, making a playful but subtle ambiance. The kitchen stands out with its smooth metallic cupboards and curved stainless-steel particulars, mixing industrial aesthetics with minimalist performance.
This renovation venture in Madrid was fairly an uncommon case. A poorly deliberate building had left the roof on the breaking point. We proposed including a second ground that might clear up the structural points whereas additionally creating a brand new livable house.
The largest problem was designing a roof that might operate as a big inhabitable truss. It needed to be light-weight, in order to not overload the construction, but additionally sturdy. Along with our structural engineer, Manuel Ocaña, we arrived at a extremely exact resolution: a light-weight tubular construction with anchor factors distributed throughout the whole floor. By “atomizing” the helps, we averted stress concentrations and gained rigidity, as if stitching the roof collectively.
The consequence was a construction that’s each stable and lightweight, whereas additionally including a brand new house to relaxation or unwind, with out compromising the house’s stability. The construction evoked a way of weightlessness for me, like a kite floating within the air. That picture impressed all the things: the title, the supplies, the colours… That’s how Casa Cometa was born. The thought of weightlessness guided all materials selections.
Upstairs, we used sky blues and luminous lotions to reinforce the sensation of lightness. Downstairs, deeper, heavier tones—darkish blues, wooden, terracotta—visually anchored the house. In between, we launched cool, reflective supplies like mirrors, glass bricks, and metal to amplify the sunshine and intensify the feeling of a home that floats.
Architects: bardo; Space: 63 m²; 12 months: 2024; Pictures:Germán Sáiz; Lead Architects: Emiliano Domingo;
Supply: Inside Zine
