Cuarto Bocel Renovation / Estudio Gonzalo del Val + Toni Gelabert Arquitectes

Andreas Luco — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 13:00:00 +0000

The residential building for the Marquis of Amurrio was built between 1925 and 1927 by the architect Gustavo Fernández Balbuena, founder and first director of the magazine Arquitectura in 1918, being one of the oldest active magazines in Europe. Due to the quality of its architecture and the relevance of the author, this building is included in Madrid's heritage list. Located in the Chamberí neighborhood, the volume of the complex, with an open courtyard to the outside, responds to hygiene strategies that were used at the time due to intensive urban planning, which resulted in dark and poorly ventilated interior courtyards. As a consequence of this urbanism, the living floors end up being long and with enclosed damp cores inside, always close to the secondary entrance where the service staff entered.

Tres Piezas Apartment Renovation / Estudio Gonzalo del Val + Toni Gelabert Arquitectes

Andreas Luco — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 15:00:00 +0000

This project responds to a social and urban context that has been revealed in the city after the confinement and the pandemic. On the one hand, certain investors have put up for sale tourist apartments in Madrid that they have not been able to amortize for months, and on the other, the return home of many migrants who worked abroad, thanks to the introduction of a labor market that is more open to online work. These two situations mark the beginning of this project: the purchase of two old tourist rental apartments by an owner who returns to Madrid after spending eleven years working between New York and Puerto Rico.

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Cuarto Bocel Renovation / Estudio Gonzalo del Val + Toni Gelabert Arquitectes

Tres Piezas Apartment Renovation / Estudio Gonzalo del Val + Toni Gelabert Arquitectes