Casa Estudio emerges from the transformation of a former penthouse apartment located in Fuente del Berro, a quiet and domestic neighbourhood in the centre of Madrid, where peacocks can still be seen wandering through gardens and interior courtyards. The project begins with a dwelling that was excessively compartmentalised, dark, and disconnected from the way its inhabitants wanted to live.

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The proposal seeks to create a more open, luminous and serene home, understanding natural light as the project’s primary material. The new layout removes many of the existing boundaries, allowing the different spaces to relate to one another continuously, accompanying the everyday life of a young couple.

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The intervention also embraces the apartment’s existing condition, leaving the original beams and columns exposed, understanding that the renovation should reveal what already belonged to the place. The palette of materials is reduced to only a few elements: a continuous microcement floor, natural stone, and coloured tiles that appear at specific moments, bringing depth and a certain domestic intensity to the space.

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At the centre of the apartment, a transitional room separates the public and private areas. More than a simple passage, this intermediate space aims to become a place where things also happen: where routine, pause, and small everyday memories become part of the architecture itself.

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Casa Estudio understands renovation not as an imposed gesture, but as a sensitive process of transformation, where the home ultimately finds a new way of being inhabited through light, continuity, and calm.