Vertical garden and sleeping pod feature in small Madrid apartment
Spanish studio Husos Arquitectos has created a 46-square-metre plywood-lined apartment in Madrid for a young doctor and his pet bulldog.
The apartment is located within a 1960s housing-block in Madrid's Acacias neighbourhood, which is described by the architects as a modern take on the traditional Spanish corrala ? blocks of flats linked by external corridors that look out over a shared interior courtyard.
The apartment's owner is a young doctor who works in the local hospital and shares the apartment with his pet bulldog Albóndiga, which means meatball in Spanish.
Both the doctor and his dog had a number of requirements that the architects noted after observing their daily activities.
Both are very sensitive to the heat, so needed a well-ventilated apartment that could stay cool during Madrid's hot summer months.
In addition, the living room needed to be large enough to enable a variety of activities such as stretching out and watching TV, writing up medical reports and entertaining friends.
The home also needed to be spacious enough for the doctor to invite friends to stay over without having to open out a sofa bed, which would take up a lot of space in the living room.
"The original layout of the apartment had a double east-west orientation, but the excessive compartmentalisation of the spaces obstructed the cross-ventilation in the bedrooms, which meant that the west-facing spaces were excessively hot in summer," explained the Madrid-based architects.
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