The house is located on the margins of the linear city of Madrid, where Arturo Soria, at the end of the nineteenth century, carried out his urban ideal of urbanizing the countryside and “ruralizing” the city. The urban plan involved the incorporation of several rural areas into the city of Madrid, with buildings that gradually disappeared until today, leaving the trace of its urban fabric as the only vestige of its location. One of those areas was the town of Canillas, where the house is located and on whose rural fabric it is built. The main idea of ​​the project is developed from the dialogue between the traditional typology that the urban fabric confers and a contemporary housing program.

Starting from the clear definition of the volume that the urban layout dictates, the house, with an area of ​​220 sqm, is developed on three levels. The presence of a cantilever on the second level and the patios and terraces on the third, transform the volumetry, although avoiding altering its most characteristic prismatic proportions common to the rest of the buildings on the street.

The free composition of the façade, as well as the color and dimensions of the brick used, underlines the tension between a nineteenth century typology and a contemporary abstraction.

• Project date: 2020
• Status: Built
• Area: 260 sqm
• Client: Private