The Espacio D project involved turning a 33 m² space in Madrid’s Prosperidad neighborhood into a studio, workshop, and store for the jeweller Deassín. What was a dry cleaner’s is now a multipurpose space, but preserving memories of the original use.

As part of the Non–Binary Space research of Pachón–Paredes, the premises that can be adapted to different phases of jewelry-making: design, fabrication, display, and sale, plus events. Narrow and elongated (10 × 2.16 m), the space opens up to 50% of its facade to the street and eliminates existing architectural barriers. The layout creates a gradient of privacy: the more public activities are next to the facade, and the most private ones are at the back.

The scheme is trans-scalar: from jewel to object, object to furniture, furniture to space, and space to city. Everything is articulated through two elements which are essential to a jeweller: table and drawers. The carpentry and furniture, created in collaboration with Pedro & Alejandro, are based on a system of tables that can be transformed in surface area and height, reinterpreting the traditional jeweller's table and allowing integration of design, fabrication, and sale. At the same time, a continuous side unit provides storage in the form of hidden drawers and cabinets, and incorporates three mirrors that act as indoor ‘windows.’ This element corrects the irregularities of the premises and includes everything from a hidden bathroom to the air-conditioning system. Transparent display cases hang from each ‘window.’

Other objects complete the identity and flexibility of the space: the staircase to the loft, designed with craftsman Fran FFFF, and the liftable tramex trays that evoke old dry-cleaning bars.

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