Revista Interiores has published the renovation of a 90 m² home in Madrid's Prosperidad neighborhood, signed by María Elizalde of MOME Estudio, together with Estudio Arturo López Ayala. The project turns a previously hidden 1960s structure into the home's central argument.
The intervention starts from a clear premise: reveal what was already there. Rather than concealing the building’s original structure, the concrete portal frames that have supported it since construction are brought into the open, becoming undisputed protagonists of the space. Building on that structural base, MOME Estudio and Estudio Arturo López Ayala trace three architectural gestures — a V, a diagonal, and a curved volume — that give the project both its name and its logic, organizing the floor plan and dissolving the boundaries between rooms.
Three Gestures That Organize the Space
Rather than isolated formal devices, each of these gestures performs a precise spatial function. The V articulates the living area, welcoming visitors with a geometry that organizes the space without ever closing it off: the concrete portal frames visually frame the living room and give it character, while the plaster partitions, positioned with millimetric precision, reinforce the sense of fluidity that defines the whole home. Natural light travels through the living room unobstructed, enhancing the continuity between the different spaces.
The diagonal and the curved volume complete this system, proposing a spatial experience in constant transition — dynamic and open — that turns moving through the home into something closer to choreography than a simple sequence of rooms.
A Container for Art and Light
One of the project’s key achievements is the coexistence between the exposed solidity of the concrete and lightweight partitions that never touch the slab above, preserving the full legibility of the original structure. This decision allows for a material palette that is expressive, warm, and functional at once, capable of hosting artworks without competing with them. The result is, in the publication’s own words, “a container for art and light”: a home that is not only lived in, but that engages in dialogue with whoever moves through it.
About the Project
The renovation was developed jointly by María Elizalde (MOME Estudio) and Estudio Arturo López Ayala, with photography by Juan Baraja. The project was featured by Revista Interiores as an example of how a domestic-scale intervention — just 90 m² — can become an architectural manifesto when it starts from an honest reading of what already exists.
You can view the full feature, with all the project’s photographs, on Revista Interiores.