Blasón | Madrid, Spain | 2022
[BURR]
Blasón is part of a project series called “Elements for industrial recovery” a strategic toolset to protect the city’s industrial heritage. Industrial activity in the center of the city of Madrid has gradually decreased in the last 30 years to end up in the current situation: a foreseeable disappearance.
Blasón is organized along a large wall: a central spine that separates the more public areas from the more private ones. It is also a large servant element, which contains all the facilities of the building and supports other objects and functions required to live in this space. As different elements adhere to the wall, they cause ledges, gaps, abutments and buttresses. All these projections adapt to the functions that each space requires, becoming for example a support structure for the kitchen or a platform on which two sections of a metal staircase lean to give access to a study.
Despite the interior divisions that the intervention generates, Blasón is a single air volume that connects all the spaces at different heights.
Blasón is the home and studio of the writer Juan Ramón Silva Ferrada. Text description by the architects.
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Photography by: Maru Serrano