Paraisa House by Manuel Ocaña
25/10/2016.
[MAD] Spain
metalocus, ÁLVARO LAMAS
metalocus, ÁLVARO LAMAS
This reform of a Madrid apartment was on a very curious premise, disorient the visitor.
Inside view. Paraisa House by Manuel Ocaña. Photography © Miguel de Guzmán.
Inside view. Paraisa House by Manuel Ocaña. Photography © Miguel de Guzmán.
Inside view. Paraisa House by Manuel Ocaña. Photography © Miguel de Guzmán.
Inside view. Paraisa House by Manuel Ocaña. Photography © Miguel de Guzmán.
Inside view. Paraisa House by Manuel Ocaña. Photography © Miguel de Guzmán.
Inside view. Paraisa House by Manuel Ocaña. Photography © Miguel de Guzmán.
Inside view. Paraisa House by Manuel Ocaña. Photography © Miguel de Guzmán.
Inside view. Paraisa House by Manuel Ocaña. Photography © Miguel de Guzmán.
Inside view. Paraisa House by Manuel Ocaña. Photography © Miguel de Guzmán.
Inside view. Paraisa House by Manuel Ocaña. Photography © Miguel de Guzmán.
Inside view. Paraisa House by Manuel Ocaña. Photography © Miguel de Guzmán.
Inside view. Paraisa House by Manuel Ocaña. Photography © Miguel de Guzmán.
Inside view. Paraisa House by Manuel Ocaña. Photography © Miguel de Guzmán.
Inside view. Paraisa House by Manuel Ocaña. Photography © Miguel de Guzmán.
Inside view. Paraisa House by Manuel Ocaña. Photography © Miguel de Guzmán.
Inside view. Paraisa House by Manuel Ocaña. Photography © Miguel de Guzmán.
Axonometric. Paraisa House by Manuel Ocaña.
Main floor plan. Paraisa House by Manuel Ocaña.
The architect Manuel Ocaña is responsible of this project. Using wood and ceramics by decision of the owner, the rooms and bathroom are put in glass cases and service areas are hidden behind mirrors.
Description of the project by Manuel Ocaña
One. It is a refurbishment work for an especially dear, single woman. The apartment is located where the sun sets in Madrid. The space is interior, configured by three bays of 17 m².
Two. She is determined about what she wants. Authentic wood pavement, geometrical floors, a tatoo as Beyonce´s and gentrifying environment with all the clichés that it involves.
Three. We decide three things. First, there should not be conventional partitions nor doors. Second, never reaching the ceiling with anything opaque. Third, and most difficult one, getting disoriented in 50 m².
Four. Spatially. Compartimentaticion is made only by furniture disposition or glass partitions. A mirroring volume with 500x221x221 cm. dimensions allows hiding, misleading and amplifying the space.
Five. Materiality. IKEA furniture is packaged into formwork board boxes. The structure of glass partitions is made out of crude steel material, 10.10.1 mm. “U” shaped profiles and 30.15.1 mm tubes. All 166 glass pieces embedded in those air-walls are all the same size, fixed with old black putty glazier. They are 3 mm. thick, which increases transparency and anti-reflection issues that are not achieved with common and thicker laminated glasses.
Six. Three sixes, Three Facts. At this housing scale is better not to project installations along the ceiling, but getting them through the floor and out on the walls. The encounter between baseboards bouxes and these hydraulic tiles with geometric and coloured patterns has to be mirrored, anyting else just doesn´t make sense. And once again, it is confirmed that a centered column into a space is always desirable and useful.
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Architects
Manuel Ocaña del Valle with Miguel Molins and Yolanda Arranz.
Owner
Isabel Ocaña del Valle.
Propucción
Manuel Ocaña, Fast&Furious Production Office.
Date
January- March 2016.
Cost
€35,000.
Area
51 sqm.
Photography
Manuel Ocaña
Manuel Ocaña. Born in Salamanca (Spain) in 1966, being transferred to in the same year to Madrid. Architect from Madrid Technical School of Architecture (ETSAM), where he graduated in 1992, founded the practice Manuel Ocaña Architects in Madrid in 2000.
In addition to working as an architect, he has also worked as a road manager for a pop group from the 90s, as well as a steelworker, carpenter, and photographer. He has been an associate professor of architectural projects and a member of the Master Habilitation Committee at the Technical University of Madrid, where he has published books such as “Madrid Monumental: Exorcity”. He has also taught and served on juries at the European University, IE University, the School of Architecture at the University of Alicante, and PUCP in Lima, Peru. He has published his texts and projects in national and international architecture magazines. The Foundation of the Official College of Architects of Madrid has published a monograph on his work entitled "Risky Business", and the Coam-EA Cultural Foundation (Ediciones De Arquitectura) a compilation in the monograph "eXcepto 18".
Among his projects, the Santa Rita Geriatric Center in Ciudadela stands out, an assisted housing building configured on one floor with 60 rooms arranged in a clover shape that face a system of gardens, Ocaña de España, a controversial housing development with a dramatic scenography in Ocaña, Toledo, and the headquarters of Casa Mediterráneo in the former Benalúa station in Alicante (2010-2013). Ocaña also represented Spain at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia.
In addition to working as an architect, he has also worked as a road manager for a pop group from the 90s, as well as a steelworker, carpenter, and photographer. He has been an associate professor of architectural projects and a member of the Master Habilitation Committee at the Technical University of Madrid, where he has published books such as “Madrid Monumental: Exorcity”. He has also taught and served on juries at the European University, IE University, the School of Architecture at the University of Alicante, and PUCP in Lima, Peru. He has published his texts and projects in national and international architecture magazines. The Foundation of the Official College of Architects of Madrid has published a monograph on his work entitled "Risky Business", and the Coam-EA Cultural Foundation (Ediciones De Arquitectura) a compilation in the monograph "eXcepto 18".
Among his projects, the Santa Rita Geriatric Center in Ciudadela stands out, an assisted housing building configured on one floor with 60 rooms arranged in a clover shape that face a system of gardens, Ocaña de España, a controversial housing development with a dramatic scenography in Ocaña, Toledo, and the headquarters of Casa Mediterráneo in the former Benalúa station in Alicante (2010-2013). Ocaña also represented Spain at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia.
