MIMOA Guide Madrid

photo: Mieke Vullings .

photo: Mieke Vullings.

photo: Mieke Vullings

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. How to get thereArrival by car Take the M-40 road in the direction of Hortalezasuburb, and follow the exit to Sanchinarro suburb. When youreach that district you will see the building in the skyline. Arrival by bus Routes 173, 174 departing from Plaza de CastillaBus / Metro Station

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El Mirador de Sanchinarro.

AddressCalle Princesa de Éboli 2128050 MadridSpain

. This 22 level building, called Mirador, is located in Sanchinarro, aresidential suburb on the north east edge of Madrid surrounded byhighways and with views towards the Guadarrama Mountains. The most impressive element of the building is the incredible gapof it shape, which acts as a frame for the distant landscape. Thelarge communal plaza and lookout at 40 m above the ground ismeant to be used by the neighborhood as a meeting area andplayground. The Mirador contains a wide variety of compacthousing types, in total 156 units. The architects created adistinctive silhouette by grouping nine blocks. The articulation ofthese blocks is apparent in the exterior palette, equal partsstone, concrete and tile. The strips of red indicate the corridors.The way the nine blocks are stacked and glued together, theymake up a new towering impressive 'superblock' (MVRDV). Blanca Lleó asociados from Madrid were responsible for directingthe works.

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Project is not public!.

Completion.

4-2005. Floor area/size.

25393 m².

Architect.

Blanca Lleó asociados. Architect.

MVRDV. Technical engineer.

Apartec Colegiados S.L.. Project manager.

Blanca Lleó asociados. Contractor.

Dragados y Consytucciones. Services engineer.

JG & asociados. Structural engineer.

NB35. Client.

EMV del Ayuntamiento de Madrid.

Contributed by.

Mieke.

http://www.mimoa.eu/users/retarde_blonde/Guides/madrid/. this page is part of Mi guide 'madrid' made by ksenija pantovic, belgrade, Serbia.

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photo: Puerta America Hotel . photo: Puerta America Hotel.

photo: Puerta America Hotel

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Puerta America Hotel.

AddressAvenida de América 4128002 MadridSpainwww.hotelpuertamerica.com/

. "Nineteen of the world's best architects create the hotel of thefuture in Madrid" according to the hotel's own website. Aspresident of the Silken Hotel Group (a business venture by thecompanies Escampa and the Hotel Group Urvasco S.A) explained:“the Hotel Puerta America is a dream come true. A project whereacclaimed architects and designers have conveyed their dreamsto us. It is a homage to the world of architecture, design and tothe freedom”. Each of the hotel's 12 floors bears the imprint of adifferent design talent. Each floor measures 1300 m2 and the onlyconstraint was that each had to contain 28 rooms and two juniorsuites. The external structure was developed by SGA Studio andis a fairly standard rectangular tower block. John Pawson did thecommon areas, while Jean Nouvel designed the cladding on thefacade and the 12th floor with 12 luxurious suites (as anexception on the 28-room-rule). For the others ... go see byyourself.

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Project is public!.

Completion.

5-2005.

Main designer, Interiorarchitect, Architect

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Jean Nouvel.

Interior architect.

Arata Isozaki. Interior architect.

Christian Liaigre. Interior architect.

David Chipperfield Architects. Interior architect.

Foster & Partners. Interior architect.

Harriet Bourne & Jonathan Bell. Interior architect.

Javier Mariscal. Interior architect.

John Pawson. Interior architect.

Kathryn Findlay. Interior architect.

Marc Newson. Interior architect.

Plasma Studio. Interior architect.

Richard Gluckman. Interior architect.

Teresa Sapey. Interior architect.

Victorio & Luchino. Interior architect.

Zaha Hadid. Lighting designer.

Jason Bruges. Landscape designer.

Harriet Bourne & Jonathan Bell. Lighting designer.

Arnold Chan. Client.

Silken Hotel Group.

Contributed by.

MI_MOA.


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photo: Emilio P. Doitza . photo: Emilio P. Doitza.

photo: Emilio P. Doitza

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Eco Boulevard.

AddressBulevar de la naturaleza 128031 MadridSpain

. This is a series of sustainable public spaces, a meeting point forthose who live in the area of Vallecas, a suburb of Madrid. It is ona 500 x 50 m road, a pilot experience for the climatic adaptationof outdoor spaces, awarded in 2004 at the Eco-Boulevardcompetition organized by the Residential Innovation managementoffice within the Municipal Housing Corporation of Madrid andfunded by the European Union (LIFE programme). The tree of airis a light structure that is self-sufficient and can be dismantled.It consumes only what it can produce through photovoltaic solarenergy collection systems. Selling this energy to the powernetwork generates a superavit on the annual balance sheet andthis is reinvested in the maintenance of the structure. “ThreePavilions, or air-trees, work as supports, open to multipleactivities chosen by the users. Installed in the non-city astemporary prostheses, they will be used only until the inactivityand climatic adaptation problem is corrected.”

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Project is public!.

Completion.

2005. Floor area/size.

314 m².

Architect.

Ecosistema Urbano Arquitectos. Client.

Municipal Housing CorporationMadrid (EMVS)

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.MI_MOA

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photo: FAM . photo: FAM.

photo: FAM

Opening hours24/7 in public space.

. How to get thereAvenida Ciudad de Barcelona right at the crossing at Atocha.Accessible from underground, from inside the Atocha trainstation, or above ground.

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Atocha Monument.

AddressAvenida Ciudad de Barcelona 28012 MadridSpain

. This is a monumental tribute to the victims of the terroristattacks on March 11th, 2004. It consists out of 2 parts, intimatelyrelated: the glass cupola and the room underneath it. From thisroom, visitors can watch the inside of the cupola, wheremessages are visible, printed on the glass. These messages werewritten in the successive days after the bombing. The 11 m highglass cupola is formed by 2 different layers: transparentcolourless glass blocks and an ETFE membrane. The blocks areglued together with acrylic glue that hardens when exposed toultraviolet light. The glue is still transparent, but the ETFE foilcontains a 97% transparency, subject to change, according to thepressure within the room. The messages will be seen through theglass skin during the day, and appear different during the night.The room is accessed directly from the main lobby of the stationof Atocha. The blue coloured space is like “an empty space, insilence, with the light as a protagonist”.

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Project is public!.

Completion.

3-2007.

Architect.

FAM. Client.

City of Madrid.

Contributed by.

Naomi.


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photo: Carlos Dias .

photo: Thomas Bögl.

photo: Carlos Dias

Opening hoursmo.- sat. 10.00 - 21.00. sun. 10.00 - 14.30. tue. closed.

. How to get theremetro Atocha.

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Museo Nacional Reina Sofia.

AddressCalle Santa Isabel 5228012 madridSpainhttp://www.museoreinasofia.es

. One of the three major museum extensions taking place in Madridthe last couple of years. For sure this one is the most expressiveone. Very spacious set up with a interesting inner courtyard. Theroof combines all the different parts to one building whichcleverly connects it to the existing building structure

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Project is public!.

Completion.


23800 m².

Main designer, Architect.

Jean Nouvel. Interior architect.

Vidal y Asociados arquitectos. Client.

Museo Nacional Centro de ArteReina Sofia + Ministry of Culture

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.Thomas_Boegl

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photo: Sergio Padura . photo: Paul Riddle.

photo: Paul Riddle

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Carabanchel Social Housing.

AddressCalle Tubas 28044 MadridSpain

. Foreign Office Architects gave bamboo a leading role in theirlatest housing scheme in Spain. There were two main reasons fordoing so: it's eco-friendly and it's comfortingly cosy. Bamboolouvres mounted on folding frames cover the façades of thebuilding in Madrid's Carabanchel public housing development inthe city's southern suburbs. The basic parallelogram blockcontains units of different shapes and sizes which, thanks to theirtube-like interior, all have a dual east-west orientation as well asaccess to a private garden on the eastern side. The louvres notonly provide the necessary protection from the blazing summersun, but also enhance security and, because they are completelyunder the control of each unit's occupants, they also highlight thelatter's spatial independence.

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Completion.

2007.

Architect.

Foreign Office Architects. Client.

GMU.

Contributed by.

Gonzalo_Herrero_Delicado.


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photo: Estudio BD .

photo: Roland Halbe.

photo: Miguel de Guzman

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Plaza de la Luna.

AddressPlaza Santa Maria Soledad Torres Acosta) 28004 MadridSpain

. This is a renovated square in the historical centre. A largecentral space, a perfect setting for urban life; a multi functional,indeterminate and free. Steps accommodate and applygeometrical order to the trees and architectural elements such asramps, stairs and ventilation towers, made out of naturally rustedcorten steel, either punched or stamped with a floral motif. Inthe lowest point of the square a water fountain that doubles as agame for children provides a refreshing counter point and at theother end in the highest point of the square, a child’s play areawas placed close to an area where seniors can exercise in theshade. The vegetation was doubled, large chestnut trees greatlychanged the overall appearance. New lighting was installed thatprovided a higher level of illumination under the arcades makingthem safer at night and more adequate for all kinds of activities.Granite paving with different contrasted colours allows for aclear lecture of the topography.

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Project is public!.

Completion.

8-2007.

Architect.

Brut Deluxe. Client.

City Council of Madrid.

Contributed by.

Brut_Deluxe.


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photo: Carlos Dias . photo: Carlos Dias.

photo: goa

Opening hoursEvery day from 10.00 - 20.00.

. How to get thereLocated near Atocha metro station.

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Caixa Forum Madrid.

AddressPaseo del Prado 3628014 MadridSpainhttp://obrasocial.lacaixa.es/centros/caixaforummadrid_es.html

. Caixa Forum Madrid is a cultural centre, offering two floors ofexhibition space, a restaurant, an auditorium and an excellentbookshop. The structure is a conversion of a former power stationand is located in the cultural heart of Madrid, near some ofSpain's most important museums. The visual image of the Forumis determined by the two façades facing the Paseo del Prado. Oneof these is covered by green plants, creating a vertical garden.The other façade consists of a Cor-ten steel addition, built on topof the existing brick complex.

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Project is public!.

Completion.


1720 m².

Architect, Urban planner.

Herzog and De Meuron. Client.

'La Caixa' Foundation.

Contributed by.

goa.


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photo: Javier Vázquez Moreno .

photo: Javier Vázquez Moreno

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Madrid Public Housing.

AddressCalle del Patrimonio de la Humanidad 228054 MadridSpain

. This project in Spain consists of public housing with 141 two-,three- and four-bedroom units, designed by Thom Mayne andbuilt by the EMT in the PAU of Carabanchel, Madrid. It is locatednear other recent housing projects by Isozaki, Alejandro Zaera,Sancho and Madridejos and others. The structure consists of anhorizontal and a vertical element, built perpendicular to eachother to create an L-shaped housing block with a view of thesurrounding landscape.

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Completion.

2006.

Architect.

Thom Mayne. Client.

Empresa Municipal de Vivienda.

Contributed by.

javivazquez.


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photo: Amparo Garrido . photo: Amparo Garrido.

photo: Amparo Garrido

Opening hoursThe project is officially not public, but the gates to the courtyardare open quite often.

. How to get thereThe location is between the Av. del Mayorazgo; Av. del Ensanchede Vallecas; Av. De la Gavia and Calle de Peñaranda deBracamonte (Ensanche de Vallecas)

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12 towers in Vallecas.

AddressAv. del Mayorazgo 28031 MadridSpain

. As opposed to the great operations of the periphery, werecovered the scale and the density of the historical center. Howmany vestibules you cross in 10 minutes walking by the PAU ofEnsanche de Vallecas, as opposed to which you cross in the sametime in the historical center of Madrid?. Perhaps 5 as opposed to50. A block, halfway between the periphery and the historicalcity. We are interested on the fragmentation and thecompactness, two terms in principle opposed but compatible. Acompact project formed by different fragments: a closed blockthat is diluted in small towers. A project that is looking for itsposition as it changes of level, the fragmentation of the groundfloor, to the compactness of the plants first and second,dissolving in independent pieces in the superior plants. Weengage in a dialog between two systems, the group and theindividual thing. Between the collective and massive system ofthe first plants, and the towers: almost single houses.

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Completion.

2008.


nodo 17 Arquitectos. Architect.

Bunch, arquitectura y proyectos. Contractor.

Fercaber.

Contributed by.

Nodo17.


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photo: Marco de Trizio .

photo: Manuel González Olaechea y Franco

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Puerta de Europa.

AddressPlaza de Castilla 28046 MadridSpain

. These two office towers flank the Paseo de la Castellana,Madrid's most important boulevard. The location of a subwayinterchange made the placement of the two towers near thestreet impossible. Their bold design is in part a response to theneed for the footprints of the towers to be set back from theinterchange while at the same time bringing the towers togetheras a single compositional whole. The towers lean towards eachother and over the plazas, ensuring their visibility from up anddown the Paseo and creating a portal which, being at theNorthern end of the business district of Madrid, has been called ametaphorical gateway to Europe. The façade of each tower is acomposition of a major grid -clad in stainless steel conforming totheir structure-, a minor grid of red mullions, and a third gridcomprising the light grey mullions of the curtain wall (text fromwebsite architect).

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Public access unknown!.

Completion.

1995.


Philip Johnson. Architect.

John Burgee.

Contributed by.

Marco_De_Trizio.


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photo: José F. García Martín .

photo: José F. García Martín.

photo: José F. García Martín

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Villaverde Social Housing.

AddressCalle del Berrocal 28021 MadridSpain

. This project is located in a new development area in theVillaverde district of southern Madrid. Comprised of 176 one-,two-, and three-bedroom apartments, it responds to an overallmasterplan for the site which requested a single U-shaped blockof eight storeys high and which has the appearance of a pitchedroof. Within the confines of this brief, the design attempted tomanipulate these architectural restrictions so as to abstract thenormative idea of an apartment block. So whereas otherneighbouring buildings adopt a symmetrical, double-pitchedsilhouette, here the traditional relationships of wall and roof areabstracted into a low, single pitch for the bulk of the block, and asmall secondary pitch at the building´s front edge. The materialschosen are earthy-pink concrete for the façade panels andslate-blue concrete for the courtyard portico. A dense band oflandscaping is located in between, to reach the effect of a richpanel of colours radiating outwards.

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Completion.


11698 m².

Architect.

David Chipperfield Architects. Associate architect.

José María Fernández Isla. Associate architect.

Manuel Santolaya Heredero. Client.

Empressa Municipal de la Vivienda.

Contributed by.

Jose_Garcia.


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photo: David Baugh . photo: David Baugh.

photo: David Baugh

Opening hours

. How to get thereNearest Metro station is 'La Peseta' (Line 11).

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Carabanchel Housing.

AddressAvenida de la Peseta MadridSpain

. This scheme for 102 units by Dosmasuno Architects, has twodistinct sides. It comprises of two blocks (forming an 'L-shape'),occupying two sides of a rectangular site on the Avenida de laPeseta, following two of the site's boundaries. The southern blockis the shortest. On the outer face, the elevations are formed bywhite polyester coated panels of expanded metal, spanningvertically from floor to ceiling. Some panels are fixed, whilstothers slide to one side or the other. Thus the occupiers of theapartments are capable of creating random variations in theelevation. On the inner face of the scheme, large boxes arecantilevered off the sides of the elevation to provideaccommodation beyond the building line. These spaces arearranged in an apparently casual, un-ordered fashion. Whilst theaccommodation hugs the sides of the site, virtually the whole ofthe ground floor is given over to parking. However this has beenroofed over to provide a useful amenity for the occupants.

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Completion.

2008.

Architect.

Dosmasuno Arquitectos. Services engineer.

JG asociados. Structural engineer.

Jose Luis de Miguel. Client.

EMV.

Contributed by.

davidb.


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photo: Marco De Trizio . photo: Marco De Trizio.

photo: Marco De Trizio

Opening hours

. How to get thereMetro: Plaza de Castilla.

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Spanish National Statistics Institute.

AddressPaseo de la Castellana 18328071 MadridSpainhttp://www.ine.es/

. The Spanish National Statistics Institute is located in Paseo de laCastellana, Madrid, near Plaza de Castilla. It was recentlyrenewed by architect César Ruíz-Larrea. The original structurewas built in 1973, but what is now only visibile is the fresh newfaçade, composed of hundreds of coloured panels, whichrepresent the statistics itself. This curious façade is called'Diafragma Decafónico de Dígitos' and is an artwork by sculptorPepe Cruz Novillo. It is a transcription system that transforms colours into numbers (0-9). The equivalents for the colours andnumbers are: 1 Red, 2 Orange, 3 Green, 4 Rose, 5 Yellow, 6 DarkGreen, 7 Violet, 8 Blue, 9 Light Blue and 0 Brown. The 001 panelline for example symbolizes the Spanish area in squarekilometres: 504.645. The 002 is Spain's population: 44.108.523,and so on.

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Public access unknown!.

Completion.

2008.

Artist.

Pepe Cruz Novillo.

Contributed by.

Marco_De_Trizio.


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photo: Ángel Baltanás .

photo: Ángel Baltanás.

photo: Ángel Baltanás

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4 towers in Parla.

AddressAvenida de la Estrella 12-1428983 MadridSpainAvenida de las estrellas

. The rendering of a common strategy it lifts us to a saving of thecosts of performing derivative of the repetition in sequence andmass-production,at the same time that offers us the chance of adialogue between the two blocks which contain the housings,they lay in a lot of socles shape from the concrete walls of closingground floor throughout the removed band ventilation of them.The volumes of the housings are pierced with a set of clusterwindows in holes with meant plastical claim, making quiver thecrumbling of prefabricated panels of concrete.

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Project is public!.

Completion.

1-2007.

Architect.

Ruíz-Larrea & Associates.

Contributed by.

Ray007.


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photo: Alberto M. Sánchez .

photo: Carlos Dias.

photo: Alberto M. Sánchez

Opening hours

. How to get thereMetro ML 1 to Álvarez de Villaami

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Celosia.

AddressCalle de Isabel Clara Eugenia 28050 MadridSpain

. Edificio Celosia means Lattice building. This social housingproject is an alternative solution to the closed block. Theproposal aspires to be a construction system rather than a uniquebuilding. The block, in the form of lattice, mixes 30 constructedboxes and 30 empty spaces. Those empty spaces are forintermediate neighbourhood life. The volumes contain homes of1, 2 and 3 bedrooms and the vertical courtyards are commonspaces open to crossed perspectives in all directions. The birds,wind and the sun cut through the building. The mold buildingsystem tests the effectiveness and quality of a faster and moresustainable construction. (text from website Blanca Lleo)

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Completion.


18000 m².


MVRDV. Architect.

Blanca Lleó asociados. Client.

Ayuntamiento de Madrid and EVMS.

Contributed by.

MI_MOA.


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photo: Somos Arquitectos .

photo: Somos Arquitectos.

photo: Somos Arquitectos

Opening hoursWhen entering the gates, make either ask the guard or walk withan inhabitant.

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Vallecas 51 Social Housing.

AddressAvenida del Ensanche de Vallecas 45-5128051 MadridSpain

. This social housing project in Madrid has an original façade designwith polycarbonate panels in three hues of green. In fact, it isone of the first residential projects which features plasticmaterials as a skin. The programme, including 123 social housingapartments, is called to be one of the new urban icons on theoutskirts of Madrid.

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Completion.


1125 m².

Architect, Interiorarchitect, Landscapearchitect

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Somos Arquitectos.

Client.

EMVS (Empresa Municipal de laVivienda y el Suelo)

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.ESTUDIOSOMOS

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