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House and Atelier in El Escorial

This is a project by dosmasuno arquitectos and it is located at Madrid, Spain. There are eight images for House and Atelier in El Escorial.

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Designer's statement

Leandro Antolí’s house and atelier rests in the slope of Mount Abantos, in San Lorenzo de El Escorial. The local topography and the required programme suggested slivering the building into four stripes in order to allow specific envelopes to wrap each activity. Sleeping, eating, working and dwelling wrinkle below a layer which loses its planar condition as it adapts to the different residential activities.

The result is a continuous element which finds an ideal orientation, gets shelter and pokes over the hillside.

These folded stipes stand over a stone plynth, featuring different accesses from the outside, as well as a continuous interior space. In their materialization, the stripes have stolen the mountain’s colours in order to merge with the surrounding landscape.

Details/Credits

Location: El Escorial, Madrid, Spain
Client: Leandro Antolí
Design team: Ignacio Borrego, Néstor Montenegro, Lina Toro (dosmasunoarquitectos)
Project start: 1998
Completion: 2000