The relationship between architecture and the city defines the identity of this project. Trihedron Apartment is based on the affirmation that the traditional spatial typology is changing and the user, due to the lower purchasing power that gives access to living in fewer square meters, must innovate, through “another” architecture, in more flexible rooms and with overlapping uses.
Trihedron Apartment starts from the imposed reference of a Mondrian painting. This germ, together with other references that were put on the table, builds the spatial geometric world that responds to the needs of the vital change that our future tenant needed. From the monumentally domestic space of the Katsura Imperial Villa to the surreal sets of the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, the apartment translates, through a smooth and hygienic materiality, an expanded space.
The designed space, raised 70 meters above the street, faces the Europa Tower, the Picasso Tower, and the old Madrid financial area using a materiality that empathizes with the environment and introduces it into it. The gray ceramic of the floor, the metallic black profiles of the geometry, and the wood in its different finishes, seek to provide an expressive quality that is transmitted and evidenced through the large rectangular frame that breaks the previous partition into two windows.
The domestic condition is acquired through the different finishes of the wood carpentry that hides the storage spaces, as well as the technical and physiological needs of a 21st-century dwelling conceived in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Architect: Ignacio HornillosDesign Team: José Rueda and Nacho VillalbaClient: RosarioPhotographer: Victor de la Fuente and Asier Rua
