A House Between A Museum And A Kitchen

A House Between A Museum And A Kitchen
Montse Zamorano

A House Between A Museum And A Kitchen

The renovation considers to divide the apartment into two areas: the servant and the served spaces. The first one is developed in the rear area of the house, taking advantage of the lighting and ventilation through the interior patios of the building. The only room structured with furniture is located along the main façade and facing to the most important art gallery since the XVIII century in Madrid.

photo_credit Montse Zamorano
Montse Zamorano

The intervention wants to put in value the many positive pre-existent elements that the apartment had: a main total space, an important clear height and the reinforced concrete structure of beams and columns.

photo_credit Montse Zamorano
Montse Zamorano

The remodelling has strengthen the museum presence in the apartment’s interiors and maintained the maximum ceiling height, showing the structure where it had a special meaning. As a background of this scene, all the house has been covered with a white oak hardwood flooring.

photo_credit Montse Zamorano
Montse Zamorano

In short, this renovation is an apartment which is tighten by two opposite main rooms: a living room with a view, in front of the museum, and a bright kitchen which take profit of an existent skylight and pre-existent high hollows. 

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