PDLL70: Studio Plutarco Reimagines a 1934 Madrid Villa as a Manifesto for Colour and Form
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When Arana and Ventosa first encountered the three-storey property, it had been abandoned for years and was in a state of severe disrepair.
Rather than restoring the house to a specific historical condition, the architects approached it as a blank canvas while remaining attentive to the era in which it was built.
Research into modernist villas from the 1930s informed a design language that draws inspiration from figures such as Robert Mallet-Stevens and Piero Portaluppi without ever slipping into nostalgia.
Throughout, a vocabulary of curves, circles and graphic motifs lends the house a distinctive visual identity.
Arched openings, rounded corners, cylindrical volumes and circular cut-outs recur from room to room, softening transitions and establishing a sense of continuity.