García Marcos House

Alberto Campo Baeza – Casa Garcia Marcos, Valdemoro, Madrid Spain, 1991

A single-family house in a traditional suburb on the outskirts of Valdemoro, Madrid, is located on a 15 x 21 meter plot, on a corner with two street frontages.
The site is enclosed by walls, like a box open to the sky. In the center, a white prism with a rectangular base of 8 x 14 meters is placed.
This container has a double-height central space that is crossed diagonally by the convergence of Light; a vertical light that enters through a skylight in the ceiling that extends from one side to the other, and a low horizontal light that enters through a large window that also extends from one side to the other.

Through Light and Proportion, a small and simple closed house is transformed into a large and open house, where, with almost nothing, everything is possible. “Une boîte à miracles”, a miraculous box.