The project in an exceptional place: Quinta de los Molinos, located in Madrid. Beyond its natural value, what makes it unique is its historical and architectural density. It is an old agricultural estate marked by unique elements—mills, pools, low walls, paths, Structures that shape a deeply evocative landscape. A landscape that speaks. My first gesture was to listen. To observe its traces, its silences, its rhythms, and to turn the project a respectful and silent response.

The intervention is located in the upper part of the park, almost hidden, to the right of the mansion. An enclave between agricultural terraces, remains of buildings, and old orchards. There I discovered a place that did not require anything to be imposed, but rather to continue what already existed. The building rises from the land itself, adapting to its contours and lines. It is mainly organized on a single floor on two levels, resting naturally on the ground without altering it.

The strategy consists of encapsulating existing moments of the place—terraces, uneven surfaces, Structures and, through them, constructing a sequence of experiences. It is not just a matter of walking around, but of allowing oneself to be affected by the fragments of the place, which generate spatial meaning. Like a wall that accompanies the terrain, the building extends along its lines, without interrupting them, intensifying what is already there.

The structure is also space. The project configured around 70 cm thick solid brick load-bearing walls, which not only support but also define, filter, and articulate the spaces that make up the cooking school. They are both tectonic and spatial elements: they create thresholds, cast shadows, and mark rhythms. Through them, subtle relationships are established between the open and the Closed, between the contained and the permeable.

The material—brick—is not only a resource , but also a tool . Historically present in La Quinta, it was the starting point for an architecture that dialogues with the existing structure. In the new building, brick is used continuously: in walls, Catalan vaults, floors, and facades. Its use gives coherence to the whole and provides unity, warmth, and a sense of permanence.

One of the central themes of project the relationship between interior and exterior. The building does not have a main façade: it is traversed. Each space opens onto the park, creating cross views, transparencies, and thresholds. The architecture thus becomes a permeable structure, open to change, time, and use.

At the heart of project conviviality. Not understood simply as the act of eating, but as a shared, physical, and relational experience. Visitors do not enter the dining room directly: they first pass through a sequence of spaces—gardens, kitchens, courtyards, galleries—where they see, smell, and hear the process. Eating thus becomes a daily ritual, a slow and shared experience.

This project aim to be an intervention on the site, but rather from the site. An architecture that allows itself to be touched by what already exists, that understands the report subject project. An architecture open to the passage of time, to transformation, to life. And one that recognizes, with deep emotion, that living, cooking, and eating are intimate acts, full of meaning, connection, and meeting.

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