MYCC Architecture Office

Urban House Installation

Urban House Installation
© Rubén P. Bescós

Urban House Installation 

MYCC

ARCHITECTS
Mycc

MANUFACTURERS
Garnica Plywood, Grupo Sider Panel, Trimble Navigation

AREA
194 Ft²

YEAR
2019

LOCATION
Madrid, Spain

CATEGORY
Installation, Temporary Installations, Residential Architecture

Urban House Installation
© Rubén P. Bescós
Urban House Installation
© Rubén P. Bescós

Text description provided by architect.

The project’s aim is to host an artist linked to the Conde Duque and provide a workplace as much as a temporary home.

Urban House Installation
© Rubén P. Bescós
Urban House Installation
© Rubén P. Bescós

It’s final location is a bright corner of only 18sqm, on theater's lobby at first floor.

In this hall’s enclave there are two windows overlooking the Liria Palace and Madrid skyline, a valuable asset to be incorporated into the project.

Urban House Installation
© Rubén P. Bescós
Urban House Installation
© Rubén P. Bescós

But before being moved to this final spot, the piece had to be built in the centre of the main courtyard so that the general public could visit it during the Madrid Design Festival.

The proposal consists in a minimum timber house where one can sleep, eat, work or relax.

A small cell introduced into a bigger and lighter house acting as intermediate space between the first and the outside.

Urban House Installation
© Rubén P. Bescós
Urban House Installation
© Rubén P. Bescós

A space full of light and nature where the ground can be hard, sloped or even unstable, where you can climb, change height, wander and even take ownership of a corner.

The house inside another house allows, by combining two very different materials such us polycarbonate and timber, to recreate two almost opposite environments.

Urban House Installation
© Rubén P. Bescós
Urban House Installation
© Rubén P. Bescós

One is the shelter, opaque, warm, and isolated. The second, luminous, bright and transparent is where vegetation finds its place and voids are openned to enjoy the view of the sunset in the city.

The tree, main character of this space, highlights the importance and beauty of the nature in combination with the architecture.

Urban House Installation
© Rubén P. Bescós
Urban House Installation
© Rubén P. Bescós

This, together with the possibility of changing spaces, having crossed views and manipulate the space through elements that pop up, multiplies the house's possibilities and the feeling of being in a bigger place.

It is a sequence and superposition of spaces with their own material qualities, versatile enough to accommodate a multitude of creative activities where the user decides, the architecture does not impose.

Urban House Installation
© Rubén P. Bescós
Urban House Installation
© Rubén P. Bescós

The volume’s silhouette is not casual. It deliberately recalls the house that a child would draw to evoke the home and gives the user the felling of “being at home” for a few days despite being placed in the lobby of a theater.

Furthermore, this simple and iconic shape bring us to childhood.

The idea of the dollhouse introduces a playful aspect that invites to have fun, to climb and reach the net and to discover yourself in the tree house.

Urban House Installation
© Rubén P. Bescós


Urban House Installation
Elevation 01
Urban House Installation
Elevation 02


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Section 01
Urban House Installation
Section 02


Urban House Installation
Ground floor plan
Urban House Installation
2nd floor plan
Urban House Installation
Roof plan
Urban House Installation
1st floor plan

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