On the northern edge of Madrid, in the secluded enclave of La Moraleja, this newly built villa stands as a study in precision and restraint. Designed by Fran Silvestre, the architecture privileges clean volumes and a deliberate relationship with the landscape, where exterior spaces are treated with the same rigor as the interiors. The home unfolds across multiple levels, each conceived to balance openness and privacy. A central void draws light deep into the house, connecting the living areas to the garden and terrace beyond. Materials—stone, wood, and plaster—are selected for their tactility and durability, applied with a consistency that reinforces the home’s quiet authority. The upper floors accommodate private quarters, while the lower level integrates service spaces without disrupting the flow of daily life.
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La moraleja
La Moraleja is technically not Madrid — it sits in the municipality of Alcobendas, about 15 km north of the city via the A-1 motorway — but it functions as the international corporate family's default answer to "where do we live while our kids go to school in English?" The district is a collection of gated residential estates developed from the 1970s onward, with villas on 1,000–5,000 m² plots, private gardens, pools, and the highest concentration of English- and other foreign-language international schools in all of Spain (ICS, Runnymede, King's College, Brewster, Colegio Base, the Lycée Français Saint-Exupéry campus — all within 1 km of each other). It is suburban in the American sense, not the Spanish: you drive everywhere, the streets are leafy, and the social fabric runs through the school gates and the Club de Campo La Moraleja golf clubhouse.