西班牙馬德里 卡斯特拉住宅
歷史建築的價值常被忽視，不是被過度開發，就是被僵化地保存，卻未能給予建築自然延續生命的機會。為此，本案旨在探索如何將建築中的材料、結構與人文轉化為嶄新語彙，不僅是一場修復工程，更是重新賦予年長建築生命的實踐。
Cities and buildings have many lives. For decades, overlooking existing structures as vessels of collective memory led to the loss of built heritage. The reaction has often been the opposite extreme: sacralizing what remains and freezing it in time, sometimes without the rigor such preservation demands. Casa Castelar proposes another path — integrating the memory and entropy of the existing into a contemporary project, not through dogma, but through the intelligent reuse of thermodynamic and informational capital.
基地是十九世紀花園城市式住宅的少數倖存建築，原以衛生主義思潮規劃、強調與自然相依，量體雖已破損，仍保留受保護的古蹟立面。團隊不僅重視此立面或觀景陽台，而是著重整體格局與其歷史脈絡。因此，他們回溯建物原貌，剝除後期增建，讓 1890 年L形庭院的初始佈局重現，並在其中融入當代生活調性。屋內空間以一連串調性統一的空間展開，樓梯與開口串連垂直動線，使居者在移動時能感受空間交錯的視覺效果，亦保持清晰的方向感與空間記憶。外觀則以「雙語」形式呈現建築的多重生命：正立面採古典方式修復，從模板重繪到木作皆以精準工藝完成；後立面則導入當代語彙，使用回收鋁材CNC切割成穿孔外皮，搭配大面窗，呈現輕盈通透的質感。新舊並置，一面凝望過去，一面放眼未來。
Casa Castelar's typological revival begins with its context: Madrid Moderno, a 19th-century hygienist garden-city once composed of ninety-six houses, of which barely fourteen survive after late-20th-century development. The project refurbishes one of these remnants, whose deterioration required rebuilding everything behind the protected façade. Understanding that its heritage value lay in both its neo-Mudejar detailing and its original spatial logic, the design reinstates the 1890 L-shaped courtyard layout through strategic demolitions. The interior is characterized by the concatenation of regular rooms connected by large voids to the stairwell, generating crossed views as one ascends but without causing any loss of visual references, which remain constant.
歷史建築作為時間的容器，凝聚著能源、材料與人力痕跡；延續其歷史價值不只於修復，亦是生態責任。在保留既有結構的前提下，團隊以設計策略減少能源負荷，包括增設保溫層、汰換節能門窗與優化通風等，大幅降低耗能。同時，整體編排也易於施工與維護，並預留未來拆卸回收的可能。全案精湛演示古蹟如何跳脫被僵化封存的宿命，以新穎的輕盈姿態與文化並存。
A second theme emerges: artisanship vs. technology. The street façade was restored through traditional craft — manual carpentry, drawn templates — while the rear was built with a lightweight industrial system that accelerates construction, simplifies maintenance, and allows future disassembly and reuse. This duality produces a Janus-like building: one face anchored in the past, the other looking forward. The project also advances an ecological ethic essential to contemporary practice. Buildings contain stored energy, materials, and human labor; transforming them becomes an environmental imperative. Beyond preserving what exists, the design introduces bioclimatic measures — improved insulation and joinery, aerothermal systems, optimized cross ventilation — reducing energy consumption by more than 70%. Casa Castelar shows that memory and innovation can coexist: the past can be respected, reactivated, and leveraged to produce architecture that is lighter, wiser, and more attuned to ecological and cultural continuity.
