In Madrid’s Chamberí district, espacio DIIR redefines the architecture studio as a public gesture—a space where a monumental table becomes both a workspace and a statement of intent, bridging process, material, and form.
The workspace - espacio DIIR is a public-facing statement of purpose. Designed as a hybrid between studio and cultural platform, the space rejects the idea of the architecture office as an opaque or insular environment. Instead, it positions daily creative work—model-making, sketching, conversation—as something worth displaying, not hiding. Street-facing windows frame the monumental table like a theater set, inviting the neighborhood to observe the studio’s rhythm in real time.
The gesture recalls precedents like the Eames Office or Olafur Eliasson’s Studio Kitchen—creative environments where architecture and process are indistinguishable. Here, the table isn’t simply furniture; it’s infrastructure. A site of production, collaboration, and performance. It functions as both a literal and metaphorical bridge, connecting the pragmatic and the conceptual, the professional and the cultural.
Material choices reinforce this duality. The space is built from an intentional collision of textures—raw brick, exposed pine, vibrated aluminum—carefully composed into what DIIR calls a “neutral and homogeneous environment.” There’s a tension here between the humble and the refined, a studied balance that reflects a distinctly European ethos: that elegance can emerge from economy, and beauty from clarity.
