The D + A House project transforms the ground floor of a 2000s family house in Las Rozas, Madrid. The property, built in the early 2000s, followed the conventional layout typical of residential developments from that period: a series of small rooms arranged around a central
corridor, with little visual connection between spaces or with the garden outside.
The intervention, carried out by the architect Daniel Gimeno, partner at Giro A6, proposes a complete reorganisation of the ground floor with a clear aim: to free up the perimeter along the facade and restore natural light and the garden to a central role.
The design concentrates the service program inside a compact central volume finished in vertical light timber slats. This piece acts as the organising core: it frees the whole perimeter facing the garden and creates a continuous circulation loop around it, so that no space is left
disconnected from the outside. The social programme unfolds across two dining areas at opposite ends of the plan, linked by the kitchen that sits between them, while a light-toned ceramic floor runs uninterrupted throughout, optimising the underfloor heating installed beneath it.
The photographic series by architectural photographer Xermán Peñalver show the space after the project was carried out.