Home for Three by Jota Jota+ centres domestic life around a sculptural timber element that does more than divide space. Conceived as an equipped wall, its composition of solids and voids filters views, organises the daytime and nighttime areas, and becomes the home’s defining architectural core. A dark-toned interior contrasts with natural timber edges, while the same language extends into the bedroom, creating a sense of spatial unity.
Located in Madrid’s Chamartín district, Home for Three by Jota Jota+ is set within a predominantly residential urban fabric shaped by successive layers of domestic development. From early low-density housing colonies to the apartment buildings that define much of the contemporary district, Chamartín reflects a diverse tradition of urban dwelling.
Within this context, the project turns its attention inward, reorganizing the domestic interior through a single architectural gesture: a bespoke carpentry element that structures the relationship between collective and private life.
The intervention establishes a clear distinction between the daytime and nighttime areas without reducing the dwelling to a sequence of enclosed rooms.
Instead, a large equipped wall occupies the center of the plan, assuming the role of partition, storage and spatial organizer.
Through its position and configuration, the element articulates circulation while allowing the different areas of the home to remain visually and spatially connected.
This logic becomes apparent from the entrance, where a translucent glass-block wall filters light and directs the gaze toward the central carpentry piece.
Rather than operating as a continuous, opaque surface, its elevation is composed through a calibrated sequence of solids and voids.
Openings, recesses and closed volumes give depth and rhythm to the structure, transforming what might conventionally be understood as built-in furniture into an architectural element around which everyday domestic activities unfold.
Colour contrast further accentuates this composition.
The interiors of the recessed volumes are finished in a dark tone, emphasizing their depth and reinforcing the alternation between open and closed elements. In contrast, the edges and doors of the principal plane retain the natural appearance of the wood, making the construction and thickness of the piece perceptible.
The resulting interplay of darker interiors and exposed timber surfaces lends the central element a graphic clarity while establishing the material identity of the home.
The same constructive vocabulary extends into the nighttime areas, where Jota Jota+ translates the logic of the central piece into a bespoke headboard and dresser. The headboard also acts as a subtle visual screen, protecting the resting area while maintaining the overall coherence of the interior.
Through this repetition and adaptation, carpentry becomes the connective tissue of Home for Three, operating across different scales and domestic conditions.
Furniture and architecture are deliberately brought together: storage becomes partition, cabinetry defines circulation, and a headboard assumes a spatial role.
By concentrating these functions within a consistent constructive system, Jota Jota+ gives the dwelling a legible order while preserving a sense of openness between its different zones.
Home for Three builds its identity around the precision of a single architectural element.
The central carpentry piece brings together function, circulation and material expression, transforming an equipped wall into a spatial device that organizes the home and shapes the experience of everyday life.
Facts & Credits
Project title Home for Three
Typology Interior, Residential
Location Chamartín, Madrid
Area 110 sqm
Status Completed, 2025
Architecture Jota Jota+
Photography Hiperfocal
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