Casa Costa / gon architects

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Text description provided by the architects.In the north of Madrid, next to the A1 highway, CASA COSTA is located on the top floor of an urbanization of the eighties of linear blocks of three floors. Our challenge was the transformation of a 40 m2 pass-through dwelling, with a terrace and four bedrooms, into a space of undefined limits. To do this we relied on the true protagonist of this site, which are the views that open on both sides of the house. A mass of cedar and tall poplar trees makes it seem as if one is floating among the treetops from the inside. Costa, the owner of this particular Atalaya, is a visual designer of Dominican descent who works from home in a consulting firm. Like Cosimo, the main character in Italo Calvino's 1957 novel The Baron Rampant, Costa lives in the heights, surrounded by vegetation and nature, among branches, always in a constant outdoors.