ZISSOU
The project transforms a commercial space in Madrid’s Tetuán neighborhood into the workspace of a production company. The starting point lies in the opportunity to work with an already fragmented geometry—ground floor, mezzanine, and basement—which allows the program to be organized without the need for additional partitions.
The overall strategy is to establish a neutral base that lets activity and people take center stage. This base is materialized through a continuous linoleum floor and white walls and ceilings that act as a backdrop for the production company’s program.
Inserted into this neutrality is the project’s main operation: a continuous table-furniture piece that runs through the space and takes on multiple roles—desk, meeting table, kitchen, and planter. This element organizes the plan without imposing rigid hierarchies. Vegetation, integrated into the table itself, acts as a spatial filter: it separates without dividing and introduces depth.
The vertical connection is reworked to lighten it. The existing stairs are transformed with grating treads and a perforated metal railing, seeking minimal presence and transparency so that light and views can pass through the levels unobstructed.
The basement houses the mixing and production area, conceived as a technical cave: an acoustically isolated and controlled space. The atmosphere shifts here—this is a dark, listening-oriented place where the production company can showcase its work in a setting that feels intimate, almost introspective.
In the mezzanine, designated for the management area, a specific operation is introduced: cladding the slab with technical carpet, which acts as an acoustic cushion and improves the overall sound comfort of the office. This level also incorporates a continuous table with planters, similar to the one on the ground floor, reinforcing the idea of a continuous piece of furniture that articulates the space and maintains material and functional coherence throughout the project.
The result is a space that does not seek to impose a closed aesthetic, but rather to activate a flexible working ecosystem where the neutrality of the architectural backdrop coexists with the vitality of the furniture and plants, the lightness of the vertical elements, and the intensity of the continuous table.
