{"id":454,"date":"2025-03-24T15:33:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T16:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.camperscorner.net\/?p=454"},"modified":"2025-03-28T18:08:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T18:08:16","slug":"how-do-you-define-spaces-in-a-tiny-apartment-this-madrid-flat-has-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.camperscorner.net\/index.php\/2025\/03\/24\/how-do-you-define-spaces-in-a-tiny-apartment-this-madrid-flat-has-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Define Spaces in a Tiny Apartment? This Madrid Flat Has Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The 430-square-foot plan has an angled yellow ceiling that shapes the kitchen and a curtain that closes off a desk area, to start.<\/p>\n

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Project Details:<\/h4>\n

Location: <\/b>Madrid, Spain<\/p>\n

Architect:<\/b> Gon Architects<\/a> \/ @gonarchitects<\/a><\/p>\n

Footprint: <\/b>430 square feet<\/p>\n

Builder: <\/b>Orfisa<\/a>
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Photographer: <\/b>Imagen Subliminal<\/a> \/ @imagensubliminal<\/a><\/p>\n

From the Architect: <\/b>“Casa Costa is located on the top floor of a three-story linear block in a 1980s urban development, situated in northern Madrid next to the A1 highway. Our challenge was to transform a 430-square-foot pass-through dwelling (complete with a terrace and four rooms) into an open, boundary-free space. To do this we relied on the true protagonist of this site, which are the views on both sides of the house.  Overlooking a grove of cedar and tall poplar trees, the views create an environment that feels as if one is floating among the treetops from inside the house. T<\/i>he owner, Costa, is a visual designer for a consulting firm who works from home. Like Cosimo, the main character in Italo Calvino\u2019s 1957 novel \u2018The Baron Rampant,\u2019 Costa lives in the heights, surrounded by vegetation and nature.<\/i><\/p>\n

“The house is defined by two terraces: a public one facing north and a private one facing south. The layout revolves around a central volume, a box that contains a pass-through bathroom and storage. It also creates a double circulation path, enhancing the home\u2019s flexibility and permeability with views and cross ventilation, and the possibility of circular paths.<\/i><\/p>\n

“In this way, Casa Costa is proposed as a house that rotates around a bathroom. On one hand it allows nature and the landscape to pass through, and on the other, it seeks to organize it into two distinct areas, according to a private-public vector. The private area at the house\u2019s entrance contains the bedroom. The public, on the other side of the volume, includes a single room. It is delimited by a diagonal in the false ceiling, constituted by a kitchen with a living room.<\/i><\/p>\n

“In contrast to the idea of a compact volume, we opted for a fragmented design, with different materials, colors, and textures that multiply the number of \u2018faces\u2019 in the apartment.”<\/i><\/p>\n

“The material and finishing system used in both the horizontal and vertical planes reinforces the ideas of continuity, flexibility, and exteriority in the house. The pavements are designed as a continuous element that blurs the boundary between what is inside and what is outside. The floor-to-ceiling curtains offer the image of a mutable space. The painted color planes on walls and ceilings define specific spaces within the house.”<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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See the full story on Dwell.com: How Do You Define Spaces in a Tiny Apartment? This Madrid Flat Has Ideas<\/a><\/b>
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