Following her desire to live in a garden, the client found what she was looking for in the center of the Spanish capital, and set out to build her first home there. The garden was hidden to the street behind an apartment block, and had a small volume in ruins at the back of the plot, which in the past contained a community laundry room. The property also comprised part of the ground level of the building. The extensive program of requirements, which could not be fitted into the section located at ground level, made it necessary to include the volume harboring the laundry room. This circumstance determined the initial concept of the project: a dwelling divided into two parts, connected via the garden. An elongated pool crosses this transition space – which becomes the symbolic and functional center of the project – and stretches along the path that connects either end of the complex, so that both parts are somehow linked by water. The result is a changing house that can be inhabited in many different ways, and which adapts to the owner’s mood, the seasons of the year, and the number of people sharing the space...[+]