Villa San Miguel: Restoration and Reconstruction of a Recreational House in Los Carabancheles, Madrid

Abstract

This article reviews the main work undertaken to restore Villa San Miguel in the district of Carabanchel (Madrid), built in the early twentieth century by the architect Francisco Andrés Octavio Palacios. The project was founded on prior historical and architectural research and used only bricks, lime, and timber as building materials. The villa had largely collapsed and become overgrown, with no roof or floors remaining and only fragments of walls still standing. The work has reinstated the facades, stabilized the remaining walls, and replaced the floors and roofs so as to restore the building’s original plan and volume, up to its initial elevations (basement, ground and upper floors, and loft).