The starting point is an extraordinary space on the corner of Calle Barquillo and Fernando VI, on the ground floor of a classic building in the center of Madrid.  It has a closed V shape, with access from the corner. Four openings to Barquillo, eight to Fernando IV. Once stripped of cladding, a structure of brick load-bearing walls appears. They are thick and supported on granite on the facade, thinner and framed with pine columns and beams inside. 

It has an impressive character, each side of the v with a square section of four meters wide by four meters high, which offers a very rare spatial quality. It has the solid quality of the permanent, but also reveals a vulnerable side in the modifications and scars it has suffered over time. It is powerful and calm at the same time. Plantea Estudio see no better solution than to reinforce this clearly perceived character.  

The height of the existing openings is increased to the original height. The walls are cleaned of superfluous materials or elements, leaving the essential repairs or remains. It is necessary to touch a lot so that it seems that nothing has been touched. The dividing walls of lesser material quality are covered with a rough spray of plaster and perlite mortar, which accentuates the irregularity of the base. The floor is treated with a high quality cement mortar, which provides a continuous surface, except in the entrance hall, where it is paved with a straight-cut klinker cobblestone of elongated proportion.

With these operations we try to elevate, complete and enhance the qualities of the existing, to achieve a container toned in the red of the brick and the color of the plaster, in different textures and variations, which tries to link the traditional architecture of Madrid with the abstract condition, denuded, of modern architecture.

In this container the minimum possible elements are arranged. On each side of the V, a few central pieces and a linear shelf fixed to one of the walls. They have opposing characters. The former are built with cast-in-place concrete, on a lost mold and with a formwork of old wooden board. They speak the language of the unalterable, the profound, made with 'earth', like the brick of the structure.  They serve as bench, support, display or counter. The shelves are light, made of folded steel sheet, and float without touching the walls. The main collection is displayed on them, illuminated by its own light, brighter than the general light.