The architecture studio A-cero, led by Joaquin Torres & Rafael Llamazares, presents one of its last one family housing projects, a home located in a residential complex in northern Madrid...
A-cero ltd, architecture and town planning studio, is a company created in 1996. The team, led by Joaquin Torres, has grown in proportion to the activity, and today it is a brand of its own, with facilities in Madrid, A Coruña, Dubai and soon in the Dominican Republic.
The house is located in a rectangular plot of 2,800 m2, where there are plenty of pines and oaks. Since A-cero aims to preserve these Mediterranean species, the housing project pretends to live with them so much so that both embrace in the facade. The low slope plot follows the existing urban parameters with the curving shapes characteristic of the Studio.
The house is built of ventilated stone white marble real cream combined with bamboo wood, giving it character and sobriety. Suggestive forms of architecture are introduced into the interior of the house thanks to a furniture design with plenty of curves.
Inside, the spaces are wide and full of light in every room of the house. For the floor, cream polished marble for the living room and Havanna oak for the bedrooms, are chosen. The finishing is made of wood and White Corian.
The furniture in the house combines the A-cero designed ones with other elements chosen by the property, where simplicity and elegance are the general trend. The white color, flooding the room, is mixed with warmer tones in browns and grays.
The distribution of the house is done in three levels. The first floor has three en suite bedrooms, while the ground floor houses a large living room, a guest toilet, kitchen with storage area, and a spacious master bedroom with dressing room. In the basement floor is situated the garage, service area and other facilities.
On the outside, A-cero respects the existing vegetation on the plot and makes a pool with changing room.
A-cero working method is the deep study of the needs of the client. There are problems at length; they study all possibilities to solve problems, and possibilities of building materials judgments. The materials and details are developed simultaneously to their ability to imagine, design and persuade. In this process, the architecture appears alone.
The key to their work is to keep the thread of the idea throughout the entire process, from start to the crucial phase of the project management. In this sense the "what" is as important as "how." The project must be developed based on the more general concept to complete the definition of the last detail that materializes.
They currently operate throughout Spain, Europe, North Africa, Dubai, Dominican Republic and Cuba…
Project by: A-cero, Joaquin Torres arquitectos s.l.p.
Joaquín Torres, director
Rafael Llamazares, partner architect
