On February 15 2005, an agreement was signed between the City of Madrid and the Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid (COAM) to coordinate a set of actions towards the restoration of the complex of Escuelas Pías de San Antón, that had suffered a fire few years before. It included an architectural competition and the subsequent development of the winning project.
The programme of the new local Social Services Center in Móstoles is strongly conditioned by two facts: on the one hand, it hosts many identical spaces –single, unipersonal offices- and it is placed within a new, aseptic urban fabric –currently being developed- which features no constraints but the street network and the plot orientation. On the other hand, the building’s relationship with its close and distant surroundings is based upon environmental respect, achieved –in this case- by means of traditional procedures, instead of throughout advanced technological systems.
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Architects:dosmasunoarquitectos – Ignacio Borrego, Néstor Montenegro y Lina Toro
Name of Project: Social Services Center
Location: Móstoles, Madrid, Spain
Collaborators: Begoña de Abajo, Sálvora Feliz, Marko Ličen, Marie Persson and Carlos Ramos
Developer: Arpegio – Comunidad de Madrid
Surveyors: Dirtec.at – Javier González, Javier Mach.
The project had to face two preliminary constraints: a surrounding area burdened by the aesthetic and cultural tradition of the Spanish row-house concept and, on the other hand, the plot’s exposure to solar radiation during the hottest months of the year.
Flying across the Madrilenian mountains, we chose a hill to land on. Its slope enabled us to establish a visual relationship with the surroundings, gazing Colmenar Viejo, the mountains and Madrid’s metropolitan area in the horizon.
The local topographic and geologic conditions are preserved and used as the main leit-motivs of the intervention. Its rocky, naturally-pitched substratum suggested hovering on top of it instead of altering its original features.
PRE-COMPETITION IN IDEAS FOR EMVS VALLECAS 39, MADRID
The city is a focal point of relations in the territory, but within it are pockets of extreme privacy with maximum expression in the family home. We propose a privacy transition between the city public and more private garden where they have room for another series of spaces.
A dynamic counterpoint to the serene Sabatini Building, a new visual identity for the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, instantly recognisable like the objects it will contain: contemporary, distinctive and vivid in its individuality. A new stage for future exhibitions, offering a palette of choice in both size and typology.
The whole proposal for the eco-boulevard in Vallecas can be defined as an urban recycling operation consisting of the following actions: insertion of an air tree-social dynamizer, over an existing urbanization area, densification of existing alignment trees and reduction and asymmetric arrangement of wheeled traffic circulation. Superficial interventions reconfiguring the existing urbanization (perforations, fillings, paint, etc.) that defaces the executed kerb development.
LOCATION: Eco-bulevar de Vallecas. PAU de Vallecas: Vial C-91.Madrid, Spain
CLIENT: EMVS – MADRID CITY COUNCIL
YEAR: PHASE I 2004-05 / PHASE II 2006-07
PROJECT TEAM: BELINDA TATO, JOSE LUIS VALLEJO, DIEGO GARCÍA-SETIÉN, IGNACIO PRIETO, MARIA EUGENIA LACARRA, DAVID DELGADO, DAVID BENITO, JAIME EIZAGUIRRE, PATRICIA LUCAS, ANA LOPEZ, ASIER BARREDO, LAURA CASAS, FABRICIO PEPE, MICHAEL MORADIELLOS.
Soft, dynamic tectonic turns establish the new Civil Courts of Justice as a pivotal point for an urban masterplan – horizontal shifts in mass generate ‘elasticity’, drawing visitors to a structure which ‘floats’ above ground plain – shifting metallic panels animate the façade – a spiraling atrium within curls around a public courtyard.
The proposal is not built from the review of the traditional housing block but from the attributes of the slab of minimum width perforated with through holes.
This project is the result of the winning 1st prize in a competition promoted by the Municipal Housing Agency in Madrid, to build 168 social dwelling. The strong sloped plot was placed in the very edge of the city.
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