Casa C
Joao Morgado

The Swiss Army Knife House

OOIIO Architecture as Architects

This great family house is located in one of the most exclusives neighborhoods in Madrid, Spain.

photo_credit Joao Morgado
Joao Morgado

The client came to the architects with a large brief to consider in the design, including a place for a car collection, cinema, game room, interior and exterior pool, library and study room, etc.

photo_credit Joao Morgado
Joao Morgado

His only desing condition was to get an unique house were you don´t have the feeling of live separate from the other family members when they were using another wing house.

photo_credit Joao Morgado
Joao Morgado

This is why OOIIO Architecture design team came with the idea of create a "Swiss Army Knife" concept for this house, where every brief activity has its own place but at the same time all the spaces join together into a central communications core.

This space is the heart of the house, and is presided by a spectacular helicoidal stair, that works as a sculpture pointing the architectural importance of this space.

photo_credit Joao Morgado
Joao Morgado
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