El Biombo

Japanese architect Arta Isozaki, who holds numerous international awards, including a Pritzker Prize, is the architect of this original building commissioned for Madrid’s public housing developer (EMVS), inaugurated in 2013.

In this residential project, Isozaki proposes a new construction model for the twenty-first century, moving away from the dominant skyscrapers of the twentieth century. On this occasion, he designed a chain of parallelograms that create a screen facing Avenida de los Poblados, using the Penrose Pattern, a model of geometric tiling with drawings that are not reproduced periodically, but are random. The design of the buildings, according to the architect, follows the "Fibonacci sequence" (Italian mathematician from the thirteenth century), which fixes the numerical sequences of spirals. Each property looks out on two aspects, and the result has a different rhythm than the usual approach.