Casa Nube is a renovation of a home next to Retiro Park in Madrid for a woman and her son.

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 corridors. In short, a medium-sized, highly compartmentalized flat without any space quality.

So 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 client.

To do this, the residential typology is reviewed in search of the radical disappearance of server spaces and corridors, through a device that would give the house a strong identity, and that would allow it to establish an emotional bond with its inhabitants.
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 from the main façade and the patio, considerably improving the comfort conditions of this space. Adjacent to this public area appears the private spaces, composed of two twin and symmetrical bedrooms. Unlike the neutral and white public space, each of the bedrooms is completely bathed in a color: each bedroom is colored according to its inhabitants' preferences, reflecting the power of color in personalizing and defining spaces.

Between both spaces, public and private, an elongated and narrow space acts as a filter and packs 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.

"The natural light, enhanced by the monochromatic white in the main room, brings psychological and physiological benefits – exposure to natural light has been linked to improved mood, productivity, and overall wellbeing. Furthermore, the emphasis on cross ventilation in the main room reduces the reliance on artificial climate control systems, minimizing energy consumption and environmental impact".