A bold gesture: opening a terrace along the entire perimeter of the building’s original roof, flooding the old attic with light, connecting it with the outdoors, and granting it new possibilities of inhabiting it.
A calm, neutral frame that activates the landscape, captures it, and turns it into an essential protagonist of the interior experience.
In keeping with this sought-after neutrality, the material palette—wood, lime mortar, metal cladding, and limestone—shapes an interior defined by sobriety, identity, and a continuous dialogue with the outdoors.
An inhabited perimeter that forges an intimate bond between the young aspiring golfer and that green horizon imagined as a place of aspiration
The construction of a short-stay sports residence for the Royal Spanish Golf Federation led us to explore, with deliberate precision, the relationship between interior space and a landscape that, though distant, is always felt as close. From this idea emerges an inhabited perimeter that forges an intimate bond between the young aspiring golfer and that green horizon imagined as a place of aspiration.
The building is structured around two main axes. The north–south axis opens towards the landscape through covered terraces, while the east–west axis establishes a gradient of privacy that begins with a pedestrian walkway linking the interior to the green of the ninth hole. From this threshold between public and private emerge two meeting rooms, each maintaining a direct and candid connection with the golf course. These versatile spaces reveal the building’s inherent flexibility, allowing for scalable configurations capable of hosting a wide variety of events.
From this shared zone unfolds the access to the short-stay residence, where a generous reception space forms the heart of the project. The covered terrace—conceived as a gentle dialogue between interior and exterior—bridges the connection to the ground-floor restaurant and to the eighteenth hole, reinforcing the visual and functional continuity with the surrounding landscape. From the dual character of this terrace, the room program unfolds along the western wing of the building in two longitudinal volumes that complete and give meaning to the inhabited perimeter.
Thus, the redefinition of an open perimeter transforms the project’s original premises, re-frames its past, and gives rise to a building capable of engaging naturally with its surroundings. A project that offers a contemporary lens for understanding the headquarters of the Spanish Golf Federation and its National Center.