I Premio de Arquitectura Miguel Martín-Fernández de la Torre

kitchen area by means of a glass hallway. However, these
actions are only developed in a scope of a correct building
space.
In addition, the project aims at becoming a mechanism to
intensify some of the situations that can be appreciated
in the surrounding area: inhabit the neighbouring garden
by building a concrete platform between the nearby palm
trees and cacti; offer a varied spatial repertoire to the
assiduous visitor in order to make their daily visit more
intense; open the space up to the outside by means of a
glass diaphragm that reflects the vegetation; and open
up towards the sky by perforating the pyramids to create
skylights that will filter different plays of light throughout
the day. The new holes will be lowered so that we can look
out while sitting and the artificial lighting adopt the aspect
of mutant artefacts that live in the empty spaces above our
heads.
The spatial experience is horizontal most of the time,
except in the main patio area where the new roof folds
upwards to break away from the isotropy of the ground
plan. It is finished in tensilized PVC with a reflecting
finishing, the central volume works as a spatial McGuffin,
trapping the most subtle variations of the intensity and
colour of daylight on its inside surface.
The other vertical space is the emptying of the tower where
a sculptured–looking metallic lightshade gives value to the
recovered space. From the nearby School of Architecture,
the building mimics the sky behind it. The lacquered
metallic finishing in ice white reverberates with the light
nuances of the air, where sometimes it is only possible to
spot the space above the building as the floating grin of
the Cheshire cat...
153