CASA NUBE
Casa Nube is a renovation of a home in Colonia Niño Jesús, next to Retiro Park in
Madrid.
The original distribution presented the typical characteristics of 70’s homes: several small rooms, a service area connected to a kitchen isolated from the rest of the house, small bathrooms and narrow hallways. In short, a medium-sized, highly compartmentalized space.
The main objective of the project is to achieve an open space that makes the most of both the surface area and the potential climatic and lighting conditions of the property. It also pursues the construction of an intimate space highly differentiated from the public sphere of our clientele.
To do this, the residential typology is reviewed in search of the radical disappearance of server spaces and corridors.
On the one hand, a large space is proposed that houses all the public uses of the house and organizes them in a single white and bright room: living room, dining room, kitchen, reading. This also allows cross ventilation in that space and takes advantage of natural lighting façade from and community patio, considerably improving the comfort conditions of this space. Adjacent to this public area appears the private pillbox, composed of two twin and symmetrical bedrooms, one facing the main façade and the other facing the interior patio. Unlike the neutral and white public space, each of the bedrooms is completely bathed in a color chosen by its inhabitants.
Between both spaces, public and private, an elongated and narrow tablet acts as a filter and houses the wet areas of the house. As if it were a ritual, this humid 'cloud' is crossed to move from the most private spectrum to the public area. You wake up in the morning in your privacy, go through the cloud to clean yourself and prepare for the day that starts and goes out into public life.
This 'cloud' is elevated with respect to the ground level of the home to allow the passage of the facilities to the main downspout, but also to reinforce the transition from the public space, open and white, with a free height of 3 meters, to the private space colored and collected. Two large hidden curved doors give way to these rooms. All the interior surfaces of this 'filter space' are covered in vitrified ceramic, as if it were a single skin. They are finished in a glass mosaic of 2.5 x 2.5 cm pieces from the Hisbalit brand, installed on the curved walls using preformed meshes, and on the floor in an artisanal way, piece by piece aligned with the curve where they meet with the walls in
concentric circles.
The toilets belong to the Round collection, by Roca, and the taps are from the A
Collection by Icónico. Regarding lighting, all mechanisms are from the Font 5.1 series. The sconces in the public area are the Glo-Ball by Flos, designed by Jasper Marrison. While in the private rooms there are the Marset Funiculí, designed by Luis Porqueras. As for the furniture, the sofa is the Marenco, the stools are the Jamaica by Pepe Cortés and the armchair is the Coconut by George Nelson.
