A Drab Attic in Madrid Undergoes Colorful Renovation

Within the metropolis heart of Madrid, Spain, Casa Flix is an attic renovation close to Calleo sq. that turned a darkish compact area into a versatile, light-filled residence for city life. The 42-square-meter house (roughly 452 sq. toes), overhauled by gon architects, presents a novel vantage level hovering above town on the sixth ground in a historic constructing relationship again to 1900. With its sloped roof and unconventional format, it introduced each challenges and alternatives for transformation. The general imaginative and prescient was to maximise area whereas enhancing performance and aesthetic enchantment. The unique format, consisting of two rooms, was reimagined to create 4 distinct spacial areas which might be visually linked: the bed room/dressing space, entrance, workspace/lavatory, and the kitchen/residing/eating room.

The doorway, harking back to a ship’s inside, units the tone for the remainder of the attic. A blue tunnel leads into the house, flanked by a steel shelf and round window, creating a way of transition and a style of what’s to return. The toilet, nestled within the heart of the house, separates the sink and bathroom from the bathe. Mirrored panels, which conceal the sink and bathroom half, cleverly broaden the notion of area by providing reflections that change relying on if the door is open, half open, or closed. A glass block wall within the bathe permits pure gentle to filter via, balancing privateness with luminosity.

A partial wall painted inexperienced is the backdrop for a triangular desk that juts out from the wall and paired with an orange chair from Moustache.

The pale yellow kitchen cupboards run alongside the upper finish of the sloped ceiling with the colourful blue eating desk positioned beneath the decrease aspect. Along with storing varied kitchen equipment, cleansing merchandise, and home equipment, the cupboards additionally maintain the proprietor’s garments.

To counteract the inherent challenges of attic residing, gon architects introduces methods to maximise pure gentle and air flow. Extra skylights are put in within the bed room and front room, flooding the inside with daylight and creating an ethereal ambiance. A clear glass door on the entrance additional enhances the sense of openness, permitting gentle to permeate all through the house.

When evening falls, the glass-blocked bathe turns into illuminated like a lantern, casting a glow all through the whole area.

Whereas daring colours combine with principally white surfaces in the remainder of the house, the bed room is void of all hues for leading to a serene, minimalist area.

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Images by Imagen Subliminal (Miguel de Guzmán + Rocío Romero).

Caroline Williamson is Editor-in-Chief of Design Milk. She has a BFA in images from SCAD and might often be discovered trying to find classic wares, doing New York Occasions crossword puzzles in pen, or transforming playlists on Spotify.