Tactile bricks and pinewood partitions decorate the La Nave apartment, which Nomos has slotted into the concrete shell of a disused workshop in Madrid, Spain.
La Nave was developed by Nomos as a family home for two of its partners, Ophélie Herranz and Paul Galindo, who head up its Spanish office.
The project has since been shortlisted for apartment interior of the year at Dezeen Awards 2020.
Wood and brick partitions divide the old workshop's concrete shell
La Nave was originally used as a large, open-plan printshop arranged around a structural concrete grid measuring 34 metres in length and 10 metres in depth.
Nomos' intervention retains this structure but converts its open layout into a continuous loop of living areas, arranged around enclosed private rooms. The new partitions are positioned at angles to the outer walls
"La Nave is the transformation of an industrial space into a place for life, which takes place as a continuous sequence, with very little difference between work and family leisure," said the studio, which also has offices in Geneva and Lisbon.
"La Nave's plan escapes any typological definition. It results from the search for new spatialities required by existing constraints."
Bricks and wood were used to warm the existing concrete structure
Nomos' initial plan for the apartment was to position the enclosed spaces and wet areas on the rear wall ? opposite to the only facade with windows.
However, La Nave's existing plumbing is attached...