Escaravox in Matadero Madrid by Andrés Jaque Architects

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ESCARAVOX are assemblages of discarded rural infrastructures, reprogrammed as voice-giving-publicdevice.

The aim of this project is to endow Matadero Madrid, former slaughterhouse of the city and now an institution self defined as “public space for contemporary culture, with views on the river”, with the necessary material devices and institutional protocols to prompt a connection between the aforementioned models of intervention in the cultural field. To achieve this, the scheme proposes equipping the open spaces of the old abattoir with varied types of large-span mobile structures with sound amplifying systems, stage lighting and audiovisual projection systems, so that in combination with sliding stands, they may serve as auxiliary structures for any public performance held in this space.

Image Courtesy Miguel de Guzmán (central@migueldeguzman.com)

• Architects: Andrés Jaque Architects & the Office for Political Innovation
• Project: Escaravox
• Location: Madrid
• Project Team: Ruggero Agnolutto (Project Responsible), Fernando Arocha, Ángela Bailén, Almudena Basabe, Elisa Bua, Álvaro Carrillo, Catalina Corredor, Roberto González García, Michal Just, Jorge López Conde, Marco Marcelletti, Paola Pardo, Khristian Serena, Patrycja Stal, Dagmar Stéeova, Silvie Talackova.
• Structure: Bomainpasa
• Equipment: Juan Carlos Lafuente, Álvaro Zamora
• Photographs: Miguel de Guzmán (central@migueldeguzman.com)
• Sociological Research: Silvia Rodríguez
• Client: Matadero Madrid

Image Courtesy Miguel de Guzmán (central@migueldeguzman.com)

The use of these facilities would be organized in the same way as municipal tennis courts, which are booked by the hour. The materiality of the infrastructure is based on the idea of an odd assemblage of already inexpensive elements. Irrigating systems, Almería greenhouse fabrics, cheap plastic chairs… A short of composite of ready mades, using existing technologies in a different way of that they were produced for. It is a technological reapropiation process, the office relates with the possibility of queer uses of available systems.

Image Courtesy Miguel de Guzmán (central@migueldeguzman.com)

Image Courtesy Miguel de Guzmán (central@migueldeguzman.com)

Image Courtesy Miguel de Guzmán (central@migueldeguzman.com)

Image Courtesy Miguel de Guzmán (central@migueldeguzman.com)

Image Courtesy Miguel de Guzmán (central@migueldeguzman.com)

Image Courtesy Miguel de Guzmán (central@migueldeguzman.com)

Image Courtesy Miguel de Guzmán (central@migueldeguzman.com)

ESCARAVOX by Andrés Jaque Architects / Office for Political Innovation, Matadero-Madrid.

ESCARAVOX by Andrés Jaque Architects / Office for Political Innovation, Matadero-Madrid.

ESCARAVOX by Andrés Jaque Architects / Office for Political Innovation, Matadero-Madrid.

ESCARAVOX by Andrés Jaque Architects / Office for Political Innovation, Matadero-Madrid.

Tags: Matadero Madrid

Categories: Cultural Center, Educational Center

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