Designer / Agency
Miguel Crespo Picot
Categpory
Restaurants, Cafe, Bars
Award
- 2024, Nomination Award
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La Maruca Lopez de Hoyos
Project Présentation
If in other times the city of Madrid had a beach – on the Manzanares’ bank and ten minutes by bus from the center -, today, the new restaurant of La Maruca draws a nautical club in the heart of the capital, paying homage to the great rationalist jewels of Santander’s architecture, such as the “Isla de Torre” Sailing School or its Royal Maritime Club. Through a process of abstraction, the project plays with the exterior-interior dualism, generating exteriors within interiors, and recreating open and nautical environments, in which the sea is perceived, but not seen. Thanks to the use of bands, the interior volumetry is molded, expressed through multiple facades, curved and friendly, inviting the visitor to walk and observe, as a sort of pilgrimage through the landscape with traditional images of the Cantabrian city. The materiality of the project is closely related to the marine character: nautical teak wood with black polymer-based joint, used on the decks of ships, as flooring in the passage areas of the project; micro terrazzo with minerals in earth colors, for floors in living rooms; white polished cement as the finish of all volumes that create the interior building; teak wood slats for the vertical elements of the project, such as columns and pillars; finally, smooth white ceilings, with a very high degree of sound absorption.
Designed by Miguel Crespo Picot
Zooco is an architectural studio founded in 2009 by Miguel Crespo Picot, Javier Guzmán Benito and Sixto Martín Martínez, architects by the School of Architecture of Madrid. The study covers a wide spectrum from the design perspective. From large-scale building to furniture design. The adapted solutions to the client and their needs, and the use of a timeless language, are the hallmarks of a studio in permanent search of new challenges. Currently, we have offices in Madrid and Santander, where we develop projects both nationally and internationally. The work during these ten years covers more than 50 works published in national and international specialized media, some of which have been recognized in various awards such as the prestigious Design Vanguard 2019, NAN Construction 2019 + 2020, Frame Awards 2020, or the European 40 under 40 2020. Recently, Zooco has been chosen by Forbes magazine as one of the 100 most creative Spanish people in the business world. Our philosophy consists into approach any type of assignment, regardless of its scale, budget and program, with the same attitude and creative ambition. Applying the same process searching the most appropriate and valuable solution, both from an artistic and functional point of view. In a world as changing and fleeting as today, we look for architectural and spatial solutions that stand the pass of time, that endure through the constant irruption of trends and fashions, which is the phenomena that cause an immediate expiration of most creative proposals. One of our main objectives is to present design as an added value. We support the client throughout the process of creation and construction of the project, from the first contact until the start-up of the business, advising on all aspects that interfere in the final result.