00:00We wanted our home to be bright, spacious and as fluid as possible.
00:05A testing ground where I could experiment not only with the furniture I designed,
00:08but also with food and music.
00:11I think my favorite part of this house is how it feels like the atmosphere,
00:16the light, the space.
00:18We were inspired by Japanese architecture.
00:21Typically, in Japan, furniture is placed close to the floor.
00:25That's why we placed almost all the pieces lower than usual.
00:30It makes the high ceilings feel even higher.
00:33I am an architect and furniture designer,
00:36and the founder of Guillermo Trapiello Studio in Madrid.
00:39I co-designed this apartment with my good friend Ana Cubas,
00:42and I live here with my wife Elvira.
00:52The apartment is located in downtown Madrid.
00:54It is in a vibrant part of the city close to a park,
00:57and the Manzanar River.
01:00Our home is located on the top floor of a social housing building built in 1935.
01:07I am deeply interested in everyday objects and furniture,
01:11how their shapes, functions and material make us feel.
01:15This apartment is a space full of raw samples and prototypes.
01:20This helps me think and inspires me.
01:24Both Elvira and I are also very fond of cooking,
01:27and enjoy experimenting together in our free time.
01:30We also love music, and I myself play the bass guitar.
01:36When we first saw the apartment, it had been abandoned for almost ten years.
01:40Most of the windows were broken, and a flock of pigeons had made it their home.
01:46The house was completely divided into small rooms.
01:49There was a small entrance room that led to a narrow hallway, leading to a kitchen, bathroom and a strange
01:55living room.
01:57We removed most of the walls in the apartment.
01:59The kitchen was moved to a large space in the front of the apartment.
02:03The ochre hallway was converted into a laundry room.
02:07The living room, office and bedroom is now a large space connected to a small balcony.
02:12This created better flow around the apartment.
02:19So, the front door opens directly into the kitchen, so there isn't really a formal entrance.
02:25I added a piece of fabric as a countertop on top of the radiator to use an additional storage.
02:32After removing the false ceiling, we left the original wooden beams visible, so the space feels open and airy.
02:40The kitchen structure is actually from IKEA, but with custom doors and countertops from my friends at Cubro.
02:46I like using IKEA as a base because it is a cheap way to get a fully custom kitchen.
02:53I like to think about my kitchen as it was like my workshop, where the tools and the spices and
03:00the food is visible.
03:01That's how I get my ideas to make it more fluid.
03:06Instead of using the typical refrigerator magnets, we made a collection of objects.
03:10By sticking magnets on the back of the objects, we transformed them into meaningful souvenirs.
03:17We chose a pale green color because I didn't want it to be too vibrant, but still create a contrast
03:23with the white walls.
03:26The dining table and its chairs are pieces that I designed and built specifically for this space.
03:32I made it out of all extra materials from another client project.
03:36Due to my work, there are often a lot of spare materials and leftovers, and I try to use them
03:42as much as possible.
03:46In the kitchen, the lights are either on the wall or low pendant.
03:52The living room is at the end of the hallway. It is a calm, relaxing space that helps us unwind.
03:59We, particularly, chose low furniture to make the space feel larger.
04:04It is filled with objects that I have designed and built.
04:08Many of them are just prototypes that aren't entirely finished, and lacquered or incomplete.
04:14I also like to surround myself with many other objects.
04:17The stories behind them, where they're from, and what they represent.
04:22For example, the collector's table. This piece, I made to display collections.
04:28In my case, I've always been interested in the world of fishing, and have always been fascinated by fishing lords.
04:35And this is my collection.
04:39I designed the sofa using scrap wood.
04:42By removing the back cushions, it can be used as a guest bed.
04:47The centerpiece of the living room has to be the bookshelf.
04:51We wanted to integrate the bookshelf and blend it into the wall.
04:56My obsession with lighting continues into the living room.
04:59Some of these lamps, I have also designed myself.
05:03The sunset lamp is a design I made with Ines de Acera.
05:08We bent the material so it feels like it melted because of the heat of the bulb.
05:13It's hot as the sun.
05:15We wanted to recreate the atmosphere of the sunset using gradients of reds and yellows.
05:22So, the living room is constantly evolving.
05:25We are trying new things every day.
05:27And one thing we discovered recently is that we could use the beams to hang our laundry or the bed
05:34seats.
05:36The floor of this house is a composite of cement, resin and albero sand.
05:40Albero sand is a kind of sand you can find here in Spain.
05:45You can see it typically in bullfight pits.
05:49I like the idea that my furniture is like toys scattered in a sand pit.
05:56The shape of the floor plan is a little bit weird and what we did is to put like an
06:01island in the center of the room with the bed and also the desk.
06:05During the day we use the desk for work and at night it turns into our bedside table.
06:12The desk is a Frankenstein of a lot of leftovers I have in the workshop.
06:21The wardrobe is from IKEA.
06:23It's just a standard wardrobe but what we did was we rotated so it accommodates into the corner.
06:30And it's white so it's super neutral.
06:36The bedroom has probably the most beautiful light in the house.
06:39In the afternoon the acacia trees next to the windows create interesting shadows onto the walls.
06:48When we remove all the ceilings there was like an extra space we could use for storage.
06:55It's where we store our seasonal clothes and more of my designs.
06:59We have this ladder we can use everywhere and after that we just lean it in the wall.
07:06Our TV is on a small rolling stand of all IKEA pieces which makes it easier to move it around
07:13the apartment.
07:14We often have it in the corner of the bedroom to watch from bed but we roll it in the
07:18living room when we want to have dinner or have a movie night.
07:25The bathroom is in the center of the house.
07:27We continue the alberto sand over the walls so it feels like a cave.
07:33We try to use a few elements as possible to reduce visual noise.
07:37A single large mirror makes the space feel more spacious.
07:41For the shop holder I found a scrap of piece marble and fixed it into the wall.
07:46I like the contrast of the oddly shaped marble with the straight lines of the bathroom.
07:53In the corner of the bathroom we have two little wardrobes and what I did was to customize the storage
08:00with a marble I found in the streets.
08:04I also designed the temple lamp prototype here in this space.
08:08The light is much more comfortable and cozy.
08:12The bathroom has no windows.
08:14In order to brighten it up we added circular windows to either ends to pass the light from the kitchen
08:20and living room.
08:22As a result the bathroom doesn't feel dark and we often use it without turning on the lights during the
08:27day.
08:29Across the hallway from the bathroom is our laundry and tool storage.
08:33It is so nice to have a dedicated space inside our home for the washing machine and cleaning supplies.
08:39It was designed as a closed space but once we used it we realized that it was much more efficient
08:45to leave it open.
08:49The small balcony is a great place to have breakfast or have aperitivos when the weather is nice.
09:01I have always been fascinated by both designs where every last space is optimized and ergonomic.
09:08I like to find specific solutions to specific problems.
09:12I like to operate in a manner contrary to standardization.
09:15I really hate standard.
09:17Just like in nature some of the values I try to pursue are diversity, adaptation, balance, functionality, versatility.
09:25And above all I will try to provoke emotion and wonder.
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09:47the shelf.
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09:47Theед drawing is more detailed.
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09:48The main layout is also the main layout of the operating system.
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