A-cero Architects have sent us photos of a house they designed in
Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid.
The balance on which rest the three principles defining this
construction, beauty, firmness and utility give us the key to confront
its forcefulness, which emerges as a great sculptural work. It is a
plastic reality: the singularity of the house defines a researching
purpose that places value on aesthetic originality and artistic
excellence. It stands out for its geometric purity, material
sophistication and compositional elegance. The travertine marble shell
is understood as a refuge and protection of identity. The purity of
shapes creates a complex that is consistent with a structure formed
only by concrete walls with an absence of intermediate pillars. It
stands on a plot situated on a longitudinal north-south axis that
brings sunlight into all the rooms. The slope of the land allows all
the storeys to have an issue to the outside. The entire architecture
appears framed within an exceptional environment: a garden of generous
dimensions continues the harmonious lines of the construction, like a
soft rug dotted with abundant planters and flowerbeds. A large steel
beam marks the entrance via a colossal door. Inside, the window concept
disappears and turns into openings. The size is suitable, proportioned
and appropriate, thus conferring importance to the open spaces, the
soft colours and the clean lines of the finishes. Beauty is localised
in essential and simple minutiae and finds emotion in the detail,
becoming the axis on which its logic turns and the point of support for
its aesthetic projection. The visual experience of brightness and
colour impregnates the architecture with its placid and unanimous
sensibility. There is an evident link between the rooms and their
outward continuity, with routes marked by the absence of doors, which
are replaced by panels. Noteworthy in this line is the 17-metre window
that shifts inwards, opening up the living room to the garden via one
of the laterals. The rooms are comfortable, ample, with slight
decorations and everything reduced to essentials, through volumes
situated on two axes and two floors with a basement housing the garage
in a startling design, the gym, a cellar, the music room and the indoor
swimming pool. Revealing great skill in the layout, we find on the
ground floor a large cylinder in marble, a material present in all the
rooms on this floor, which organises what develops around it: the
living rooms, dining rooms and service zone joined via a staircase with
a magnificent red backdrop from which hangs a work of art in grand
display and with the upper floor housing the bedrooms, the bathrooms
finished in ash wood and the library, arranged as a great box of books,
around a glass walkway overlooking the main drawing room.
from contemporist
