Within the Minimalist stylea steel kitchen, the latest novelty to gain space and light in your home.
The Irish writer George Bernard Shaw said that «there is no more sincere love than the love of kitchen.» That central space of every house, warm, tasty and contemporary, is the most domestic of all, also the most technological. The winning commitment of all reform. And that is known by the study Donaire Milans Architects, formed by Jesús Donaire and María Milans del Bosch, who in his last project has opted for this common place and have taken the prize with their minimalist style.
Juan Baraja
The kitchen is the most sensitive to the spaces of a home, providing it with a powerful personality is to change the course of a reform. In this house in the Malasaña neighborhood of Madrid, the architects decided to give them the central place, taking advantage of the diafanity they had previously created after transforming the four original bedrooms into one. «The kitchen is a key element of the main space of the house, both for day to day and for social moments, so it was incorporated into the main space that captures all natural light,» they explain. Won the luminosity of the outside, we had to look for a material that raises it even more: steel. “It was designed with this material that captures the light and sometimes makes it disappear with the reflexes; It had to be an element of care designoffers a very expressive light vibration when between the light on the balconies. ”
Juan Baraja
The kitchen consists only of an island that was designed by the architects themselves, in collaboration with a carpenter and a metallist: «It has a vibrated steel finish that works very well, because it avoids spots and is cleaned perfectly.» Vertical furniture where the refrigerator is integrated, a upper lamp with rods finished in the same metallic material and iconic brand taps closed the circle, it did not need more.
The rest of the house is a space that geometrically acts as a funnel that collects the light of the three balconies until it takes inside. Pillars and original wooden beams Between the brick walls and no conventional doors, only sliding panels that achieve continuity to the roofs in the house. A project where all the formal details, and even the furniture, are designed to go unnoticed and integrate with the tone of the walls. Here, they send the stoves.