Renovation of the Official College of Technical Architects of Madrid

The project for the Official Association of Quantity Surveyors and Technical Architects of Madrid (COAATM), developed in collaboration with Naiara Montero Viar, is based on the rehabilitation and complete interior refurbishment of an early twentieth-century building under full heritage protection, located in central Madrid and adjoining the Convent of the Descalzas Reales.

The rehabilitation was approached through the structural and formal recovery of the building and the enhancement of its architectural value. Originally designed as a residential building, it had gradually been transformed into the Association’s headquarters without ever acquiring a clear administrative typology. The project also sought to provide COAATM with a functional and representative headquarters: a modern administrative centre capable of embodying the institution’s identity and the image it projects to society.

The intervention had to be viable from both a construction and regulatory perspective, providing a feasible and technically robust solution that ensured high construction quality and ease of maintenance, while complying with all applicable regulations, particularly those concerning accessibility, habitability and fire safety.

To achieve these objectives, the project established a clear and decisive circulation system that allows the interior of the building to be understood as an integrated whole, creating a unified and versatile space. Toilets and service shafts are vertically concentrated along the long party wall, freeing the remainder of each floor and allowing the creation of open, transparent, flexible and functional spaces.