One morning a client stopped into our office, he said loved the space we were working in. He
and his partners had bought an old coffee factory in the south of
Madrid. He wanted us to prepare a project
to build office spaces like CAMAROTE in that plot. First we had to demolish the
factory and DESIGN a project plan. The plot laws said we could make a 20m
high building with no more than 3 floors. So we already knew height was
decided, the building had to shrink 3m meters from the neighbouring line
and the maximum area to build was about 4000m2, excluding an
underground garage and a space for machines. We
drew a building that would be a new icon in the neighbourhood, a new
diamond in an ocean of dull brick buildings. In the summer we
presented the project for license in the municipality. It took more than
a year to fix details and we accepted to do some changes to pass the law filters, especially the fire
regulations, which are very strict in offices and factory lofts.
