ANANDA BUILDING
Espegel - Fisac Arquitectos
ARCHITECTS
Espegel - Fisac Arquitectos
AREA
2302 m²
YEAR
2012
LOCATION
Spain
CATEGORY
Apartments
"The greatest freedom is born of the greater rigor" Eupalinos or the Architect, Paul Valery. A private developer on the outskirts of Madrid
An expanded typical residential area of the golden years and a retrofit project to withstand the crisis, are the seeds for this work.
The new condition requires a fierce draft dehydration of the first proposal whose most representative architectural space.The core communications materialized by a single vertical space
That stretches across the floor, organized the staircase, plateaus, common courtyard terraces, balconies and bridges connection between dwellings.
After the adjustment, this space was reduced without losing their fundamental status as a backbone and visual and social relation ships connector.
The space, which invades the whole building with color and light, through a visual diagonals leading to community courtyard Terraces where you can see the sky and the garden, is achieved through the non-sectoring of the stairs.
Serious, measured, rigorous and economical elevation configured by the unique group of dwellings, draw a slice, a slip strips ribbon windows and a single opening in the NE and SW elevations. The dominant material is face-brick,
Two colors that draw the diagonal typological grouping.a third brick, black, configures the basement dwellings that open to the garden. The dark metal carpentry and blinds and the setback of the dark brick column, emphasize the horizontal stripes.
The access porch from the street, atrium of the building, garden umbracle becomes a veranda to the pool.
In the limited space of the sunny setback generously offered by the legislation stands an efficient pool, narrow and long with sporty character
