OOAA Arquitectura’s Salud, A Minimal Renovation Of A Madrid Apartment

The two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment is located in a classic building with long, vertical windows, and load-bearing walls. “We faced the project with the aim to not preserve the interior, but to still continue with the classic language of the building,” explains OOAA’s director, Iker Ochotorena. The apartment’s emphasis is on the contrast of textures and lines, to balance what he says is the “classic language” of the building with the firm’s modernist intervention. A notable feature of ‘Salud’ is its textured ceiling with curved edges, and the curved bathroom surfaces that are distinct from the apartment’s prevailing straight lines. “We designed the curves to become an abstraction of the preexisting architecture,” continues Ochotorena, “and now it tidies up the ceilings, creating a horizontal height where the window apertures and wardrobes end.”

As for the interior finishes, the firm’s aim was to homogenize them in a beige palette, “so that they express their texture with no help, and so that they provide a calm interior, where the light rests.” The firm has shared with IGNANT a series of renders of the home, that will be completedlater this year. “In every project we pursue a calm, protective atmosphere,” explains Ochotorena. “We create geometric vacuums and volumes carved in noble materials to achieve a silent, serene and warm architecture.”