madrid.projects 31 Plaza de la Luna El Mirador de Sanchinarro Madrid, Spain Blanca Lleó asociados housing, social housing, square Puerta America Hotel

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1 madrid Projects 31 Created 05-Aug-10 By ksenija pantovic, belgrade, Serbia El Mirador de Sanchinarro Madrid, Blanca Lleó asociados housing, social housing, square Puerta America Hotel Eco Boulevard Atocha Monument Museo Nacional Reina Sofia El Croquis Carabanchel Social Housing Atocha Train Station extension 7 Pradolongo Social Housing Caixa Forum Madrid 14 Madrid Public Housing 15 Hexágonos Pavilion towers in Vallecas 17 Madrid, nodo 17 Arquitectos housing, social housing 8 Puerta de Europa 18 Madrid, Philip Johnson office 9 Villaverde Social Housing 19 Madrid, David Chipperfield s housing, social housing 10 Sede de la Cámara de Comercio 20 Madrid, Rafael de la Hoz office 11 Madrid, Rafael Moneo train station Madrid, Ramón Vázquez Molezún & José Antonio Corrales exposition space, pavilion Madrid, Foreign Office s housing, social housing 6 Madrid, Fernando Marquez Cecilia exposition space, gallery, office 13 Madrid, Thom Mayne housing madrid, BOPBAA museum 5 madrid, Jean Nouvel museum Museo Thyssen Bornemisza Plaza de la Luna Madrid, Herzog and De Meuron Madrid, FAM memorial space, monument 4 Madrid, Ecosistema Urbano Arquitectos meeting room, pavilion, square Madrid, Brut Deluxe park, square Madrid, Jean Nouvel hotel 3 Usera Public Library 21 Madrid, Ábalos & Herreros library 12 Madrid, Wiel Arets s social housing Carabanchel Housing 22 Madrid, Dosmasuno Arquitectos housing, social housing 1

2 170 social houses in Sanchinarro Madrid, Burgos & Garrido housing, social housing Panorama building Spanish National Statistics Institute Torre Caja Repsol Tower housing in the PAU of Carabanchel 25 4 towers in Parla 29 Vallecas 51 Social Housing 30 Vallecas 11 Social Housing 31 Madrid, Somos Arquitectos social housing 26 Embajadores Social Housing 32 Madrid, Somos Arquitectos garage, housing, social housing 27 Madrid, Ruíz-Larrea & Associates dwellings, housing, social housing Celosia Madrid, Somos Arquitectos housing, social housing Madrid, Foster & Partners office 24 Madrid, Ruíz-Larrea & Associates office, renovation Madrid, MVRDV housing Madrid, Junquera Arquitectos housing 23 Vallecas Social Housing 33 Madrid, Estudio Entresitio social housing 28 Madrid, Ruíz-Larrea & Associates dwellings, housing 2

3 photo: Mieke Vullings photo: Mieke Vullings El Mirador de Sanchinarro Calle Princesa de Éboli Madrid This 22 level building, called Mirador, is located in Sanchinarro, a residential suburb on the north east edge of Madrid surrounded by highways and with views towards the Guadarrama Mountains The most impressive element of the building is the incredible gap of it shape, which acts as a frame for the distant landscape The large communal plaza and lookout at 40 m above the ground is meant to be used by the neighborhood as a meeting area and playground The Mirador contains a wide variety of compact housing types, in total 156 units The architects created a distinctive silhouette by grouping nine blocks The articulation of these blocks is apparent in the exterior palette, equal parts stone, concrete and tile The strips of red indicate the corridors The way the nine blocks are stacked and glued together, they make up a new towering impressive 'superblock' (MVRDV) Blanca Lleó asociados from Madrid were responsible for directing the works Project is not public! Floor area/size m² Technical engineer Project manager Contractor Services engineer Structural engineer Blanca Lleó asociados MVRDV Apartec Colegiados SL Blanca Lleó asociados Dragados y Consytucciones JG & asociados NB35 EMV del Ayuntamiento de Madrid Mieke photo: Mieke Vullings Arrival by car Take the M-40 road in the direction of Hortaleza suburb, and follow the exit to Sanchinarro suburb When you reach that district you will see the building in the skyline Arrival by bus Routes 173, 174 departing from Plaza de Castilla Bus / Metro Station 3

4 photo: Puerta America Hotel photo: Nazar Leskiw Puerta America Hotel Avenida de América Madrid wwwhotelpuertamericacom/ "Nineteen of the world's best architects create the hotel of the future in Madrid" according to the hotel's own website As president of the Silken Hotel Group (a business venture by the companies Escampa and the Hotel Group Urvasco SA) explained: the Hotel Puerta America is a dream come true A project where acclaimed architects and designers have conveyed their dreams to us It is a homage to the world of architecture, design and to the freedom Each of the hotel's 12 floors bears the imprint of a different design talent Each floor measures 1300 m2 and the only constraint was that each had to contain 28 rooms and two junior suites The external structure was developed by SGA Studio and is a fairly standard rectangular tower block John Pawson did the common areas, while Jean Nouvel designed the cladding on the facade and the 12th floor with 12 luxurious suites (as an exception on the 28-room-rule) For the others go see by yourself photo: Puerta America Hotel Project is public! Main designer, Interior architect, Interior architect Interior architect Interior architect Interior architect Interior architect Interior architect Interior architect Interior architect Interior architect Interior architect Interior architect Interior architect Interior architect Interior architect Lighting designer Landscape designer Lighting designer Jean Nouvel MI_MOA Arata Isozaki Christian Liaigre David Chipperfield s Foster & Partners Harriet Bourne & Jonathan Bell Javier Mariscal John Pawson Kathryn Findlay Marc Newson Plasma Studio Richard Gluckman Teresa Sapey Victorio & Luchino Zaha Hadid s Jason Bruges Harriet Bourne & Jonathan Bell Arnold Chan Silken Hotel Group 4

5 photo: Emilio P Doitza photo: Emilio P Doitza Eco Boulevard Bulevar de la naturaleza Madrid This is a series of sustainable public spaces, a meeting point for those who live in the area of Vallecas, a suburb of Madrid It is on a 500 x 50 m road, a pilot experience for the climatic adaptation of outdoor spaces, awarded in 2004 at the Eco-Boulevard competition organized by the Residential Innovation management office within the Municipal Housing Corporation of Madrid and funded by the European Union (LIFE programme) The tree of air is a light structure that is self-sufficient and can be dismantled It consumes only what it can produce through photovoltaic solar energy collection systems Selling this energy to the power network generates a superavit on the annual balance sheet and this is reinvested in the maintenance of the structure Three Pavilions, or air-trees, work as supports, open to multiple activities chosen by the users Installed in the non-city as temporary prostheses, they will be used only until the inactivity and climatic adaptation problem is corrected Project is public! Floor area/size m² Ecosistema Urbano Arquitectos Municipal Housing Corporation Madrid (EMVS) MI_MOA photo: Emilio P Doitza 5

6 photo: FAM photo: FAM Atocha Monument Avenida Ciudad de Barcelona Madrid photo: FAM This is a monumental tribute to the victims of the terrorist attacks on March 11th, 2004 It consists out of 2 parts, intimately related: the glass cupola and the room underneath it From this room, visitors can watch the inside of the cupola, where messages are visible, printed on the glass These messages were written in the successive days after the bombing The 11 m high glass cupola is formed by 2 different layers: transparent colourless glass blocks and an ETFE membrane The blocks are glued together with acrylic glue that hardens when exposed to ultraviolet light The glue is still transparent, but the ETFE foil contains a 97% transparency, subject to change, according to the pressure within the room The messages will be seen through the glass skin during the day, and appear different during the night The room is accessed directly from the main lobby of the station of Atocha The blue coloured space is like an empty space, in silence, with the light as a protagonist Project is public! FAM City of Madrid Naomi 24/7 in public space of the blue room: Tuesdays to Sundays: 11am till 2pm and from 5pm till 7pm Closed on Mondays Free entrance Avenida Ciudad de Barcelona right at the crossing at Atocha Accessible from underground, from inside the Atocha train station, or above ground 6

7 photo: Dirk Verwoerd photo: Dirk Verwoerd Museo Nacional Reina Sofia Calle Santa Isabel madrid One of the three major museum extensions taking place in Madrid around 2005 For sure this one is the most expressive one Very spacious set up with a interesting inner courtyard The roof combines all the different parts to one building which cleverly connects it to the existing building structure Project is public! Floor area/size m² Main designer, Interior architect Jean Nouvel Vidal y Asociados arquitectos Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia + Ministry of Culture Thomas_Boegl photo: Dirk Verwoerd mo- sat sun tue closed metro Atocha 7

8 photo: Thomas Bögl photo: Thomas Bögl Museo Thyssen Bornemisza Paseo del Prado madrid The third of Madrid 's cultural institutions, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum will double in size to accommodate the nine-year loan of more than 700 masterpieces from the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection The extension also calls for the renovation of two late 19 th century buildings adjoining the Villahermosa Palace by BOPBAA Studio, a group of Barcelona architects Their design incorporates these 2 adjacent existing structures retaining their facades and links them to the museum with a new glass pavilion facing a garden terrace A new entrance court is created which also houses the museum café: an astonishingly spacious interior Madrid 's two other world class cultural institutions: the Museo Nacional del Prado and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía had extensive expansions also The 3 museums all housed in 18 th century secular buildings were built as part of Carlos III's campaign to transform the modest town of Madrid into the country's modern capital Project is public! Floor area/size m² BOPBAA Fundación Thyssen-Bornemisza Thomas_Boegl photo: Thomas Bögl tue - sun metro Banco de Espana 8

9 photo: Thomas Bögl photo: Thomas Bögl El Croquis Avenida de los Reyes Catolicos 9 E Madrid A small building in a typical suburban environment for one of the most well known publishers of architecture magazines in : El Croquis The plot is seen as landscape and the building mirrors one of the rock formations of the surrounding landscape Even the elevations are treated as layered structure A outstanding example how to build in a suburban structure The architects are the main editors and directors of El Croquis they built and designed this themselves The building is not only office space, but is also used a gallery for architecture expositions Project is public! 1998 Main designer, Fernando Marquez Cecilia Richard C Levene El Croquis ure Magazine Thomas_Boegl photo: Thomas Bögl The gallery is open to the public and the schedule is from 9:30 to 14:30 from Monday to Friday It is 5min walk from the train station, El Escorial Take the train from the Madrid centre 9

10 photo: Sergio Padura photo: Paul Riddle Carabanchel Social Housing Calle Tubas Madrid Foreign Office s gave bamboo a leading role in their latest housing scheme in There were two main reasons for doing so: it's eco-friendly and it's comfortingly cosy Bamboo louvres mounted on folding frames cover the façades of the building in Madrid's Carabanchel public housing development in the city's southern suburbs The basic parallelogram block contains units of different shapes and sizes which, thanks to their tube-like interior, all have a dual east-west orientation as well as access to a private garden on the eastern side The louvres not only provide the necessary protection from the blazing summer sun, but also enhance security and, because they are completely under the control of each unit's occupants, they also highlight the latter's spatial independence photo: Paul Riddle Project is not public! 2007 Foreign Office s GMU GonzaloHerreroDelicado 10

11 photo: Alberto M Sánchez photo: TomAs Martinez Vallerga Atocha Train Station extension Plaza del Emperador Carlos V Madrid The architect Rafael Moneo worked on the extension of the Madrid's first train station, with the intension of making it 4 times bigger and getting short and long distance rail network, together with buses and subways The new building is located behind the old station, which now is the Main Entrance Lobby, that has an Impressive 4000 m2 Tropical Garden with commercial area and restaurants photo: Alberto M Sánchez Project is public! 1992 Rafael Moneo City of Madrid MVar Take the subway to Atocha Metro Station, or just go there by train 11

12 photo: Federico Guardabrazo Vallejo photo: Federico Guardabrazo Vallejo Pradolongo Social Housing Calle del Doctor Tolosa Latour Madrid Living Madrid is a residential development located south of Madrid and north of the M40 perimeter highway ring The 144 apartments, distributed over two six-story and one nine-story building, are linked by a submerged car park Organized around a series of horizontal 'strips' that run east to west across the site, the complex facilitates the disparate elements within the surrounding area into a coherent urban grouping, whilst at the same time extending the benefits of inner city living to the rest of the city Each 'strip' is formed as an extension of the adjacent Pradolongo Park By setting the circulation patterns and positioning of the main volumes on the site, every 'strip' divides the area in such a way as to enable pedestrian access into its depth whilst assisting in defining and enhancing the immediate area photo: Carlos Dias Project is not public! 2008 Wiel Arets s Fede On the corner of 'Avenida de los Poblados' and 'Calle del Doctor Tolosa Latour' 12

13 photo: Estudio BD photo: Roland Halbe Plaza de la Luna Plaza Santa Maria Soledad Torres Acosta) Madrid This is a renovated square in the historical centre A large central space, a perfect setting for urban life; a multi functional, indeterminate and free Steps accommodate and apply geometrical order to the trees and architectural elements such as ramps, stairs and ventilation towers, made out of naturally rusted corten steel, either punched or stamped with a floral motif In the lowest point of the square a water fountain that doubles as a game for children provides a refreshing counter point and at the other end in the highest point of the square, a child s play area was placed close to an area where seniors can exercise in the shade The vegetation was doubled, large chestnut trees greatly changed the overall appearance New lighting was installed that provided a higher level of illumination under the arcades making them safer at night and more adequate for all kinds of activities Granite paving with different contrasted colours allows for a clear lecture of the topography Project is public! Brut Deluxe City Council of Madrid Brut_Deluxe photo: Miguel de Guzman 13

14 photo: Carlos Dias photo: Carlos Dias Caixa Forum Madrid Paseo del Prado Madrid ml Caixa Forum Madrid is a cultural centre, offering two floors of exhibition space, a restaurant, an auditorium and an excellent bookshop The structure is a conversion of a former power station and is located in the cultural heart of Madrid, near some of 's most important museums The visual image of the Forum is determined by the two façades facing the Paseo del Prado One of these is covered by green plants, creating a vertical garden The other façade consists of a Cor-ten steel addition, built on top of the existing brick complex Project is public! Floor area/size m², Urban planner Herzog and De Meuron 'La Caixa' Foundation goa photo: Nazar Leskiw Every day from Located near Atocha metro station 14

15 photo: Javier Vázquez Moreno Madrid Public Housing Calle del Patrimonio de la Humanidad Madrid This project in consists of public housing with 141 two-, three- and four-bedroom units, designed by Thom Mayne and built by the EMT in the PAU of Carabanchel, Madrid It is located near other recent housing projects by Isozaki, Alejandro Zaera, Sancho and Madridejos and others The structure consists of an horizontal and a vertical element, built perpendicular to each other to create an L-shaped housing block with a view of the surrounding landscape Project is not public! 2006 Thom Mayne Empresa Municipal de Vivienda javivazquez photo: Javier Vázquez Moreno 15

16 photo: Javier Vázquez Moreno photo: Javier Vázquez Moreno Hexágonos Pavilion Calle Hexágonos Madrid This project used to be the Spanish pavilion for the Brussels World Exposition of 1958, built by architects Ramón Vázquez Molezún and José Antonio Corrales Their work won first prize, after which the pavilion was dismantled and relocated to Madrid The abandoned site still exists and the international allure of the ruin can still be experienced It is considered by experts to be one of the most important pieces of Spanish architecture of the twentieth century photo: Javier Vázquez Moreno Public access unknown! 1958 Ramón Vázquez Molezún & José Antonio Corrales javivazquez 16

17 photo: Amparo Garrido photo: Amparo Garrido 12 towers in Vallecas Av del Mayorazgo Madrid As opposed to the great operations of the periphery, we recovered the scale and the density of the historical center How many vestibules you cross in 10 minutes walking by the PAU of Ensanche de Vallecas, as opposed to which you cross in the same time in the historical center of Madrid? Perhaps 5 as opposed to 50 A block, halfway between the periphery and the historical city We are interested on the fragmentation and the compactness, two terms in principle opposed but compatible A compact project formed by different fragments: a closed block that is diluted in small towers A project that is looking for its position as it changes of level, the fragmentation of the ground floor, to the compactness of the plants first and second, dissolving in independent pieces in the superior plants We engage in a dialog between two systems, the group and the individual thing Between the collective and massive system of the first plants, and the towers: almost single houses Project is not public! 2008 Main designer, Contractor nodo 17 Arquitectos Bunch, arquitectura y proyectos Fercaber Nodo17 photo: Amparo Garrido The project is officially not public, but the gates to the courtyard are open quite often The location is between the Av del Mayorazgo; Av del Ensanche de Vallecas; Av De la Gavia and Calle de Peñaranda de Bracamonte (Ensanche de Vallecas) 17

18 photo: Nazar Leskiw photo: Marco de Trizio Puerta de Europa Plaza de Castilla Madrid These two office towers flank the Paseo de la Castellana, Madrid's most important boulevard The location of a subway interchange made the placement of the two towers near the street impossible Their bold design is in part a response to the need for the footprints of the towers to be set back from the interchange while at the same time bringing the towers together as a single compositional whole The towers lean towards each other and over the plazas, ensuring their visibility from up and down the Paseo and creating a portal which, being at the Northern end of the business district of Madrid, has been called a metaphorical gateway to Europe The façade of each tower is a composition of a major grid -clad in stainless steel conforming to their structure-, a minor grid of red mullions, and a third grid comprising the light grey mullions of the curtain wall (text from website architect) photo: Manuel González Olaechea y Franco Public access unknown! 1995 Main designer, Philip Johnson John Burgee Marco_De_Trizio 18

19 photo: José F García Martín photo: José F García Martín Villaverde Social Housing Calle del Berrocal Madrid This project is located in a new development area in the Villaverde district of southern Madrid Comprised of 176 one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments, it responds to an overall masterplan for the site which requested a single U-shaped block of eight storeys high and which has the appearance of a pitched roof Within the confines of this brief, the design attempted to manipulate these architectural restrictions so as to abstract the normative idea of an apartment block So whereas other neighbouring buildings adopt a symmetrical, double-pitched silhouette, here the traditional relationships of wall and roof are abstracted into a low, single pitch for the bulk of the block, and a small secondary pitch at the building s front edge The materials chosen are earthy-pink concrete for the façade panels and slate-blue concrete for the courtyard portico A dense band of landscaping is located in between, to reach the effect of a rich panel of colours radiating outwards photo: José F García Martín Project is not public! Floor area/size m² Associate architect Associate architect David Chipperfield s José María Fernández Isla Manuel Santolaya Heredero Empressa Municipal de la Vivienda Jose_Garcia 19

20 photo: Alberto M Sánchez photo: Alberto M Sánchez Sede de la Cámara de Comercio Calle Ribera del Loira Madrid The Headquarters of the Chamber of Commerce in Madrid is situated next to the highway M-40 The The building has clean lines and is very transparant, with three openings that allow light to enter and to look outwards from the 'camera' (room) This geometric distribution, a bucket inside another, as well as the materials used is not arbitrary It connects the interior with the environment outside the building The facades combine glass, white concrete and carpentry of aluminum, thus creating a set of materials and volumes The opening leading to the motorway is closed and is metallic, that of the entry is translucent and weightless and that connects to the park is glass transparent The latter, for the administration of the Council, is a supporting facade and gives life to the two sides held cameras, dedicated to the assemblies and meetings photo: Alberto M Sánchez Project is public! Floor area/size m² Rafael de la Hoz Consejo Superior de las Cámaras de Comercio asanchez , info@cscamarases 20

21 photo: David Baugh photo: David Baugh Usera Public Library Avenida Rafaela Ybarra Madrid Bib&codigo=227 Sitting on a patch of high ground, the 'Biblioteca publica Jose Hierro' could be described as a castle for the safe keeping of books and other information Upon entering, the first thing one encounters is a dramatic triple height entrance space, followed by the discovery that the the ground floor plan is actually quite extensive, and is not confined to the footprint of the tower above A good way to experience the building is to take the lift up to the top floor and then walk back down the stairs The plan of the tower is divided in a two-thirds/one-third split There are several double height spaces occupying the larger portion, with mezzanine galleries - holding the toilets and quiet study rooms forming the smaller part of the plan Tall slit windows, arranged in an apparently random fashion, allow in natural light The interior walls are covered in abstracted text in different colours Structure is confined to the core and perimeter to leave a largely column-free interior Project is public! Floor area/size m² Main designer, Ábalos & Herreros Herreros Arquitectos Comunidad de Madrid davidb photo: David Baugh Mondays to Fridays 0830 to 2100 Saturdays, Sundays & holidays 1100 to 1900 Nearest Metro station is Plaza Eliptica Line 6 Bus routes: 6, 47, 60 &

22 photo: David Baugh photo: David Baugh Carabanchel Housing Avenida de la Peseta Madrid photo: David Baugh This scheme for 102 units by Dosmasuno s, has two distinct sides It comprises of two blocks (forming an 'L-shape'), occupying two sides of a rectangular site on the Avenida de la Peseta, following two of the site's boundaries The southern block is the shortest On the outer face, the elevations are formed by white polyester coated panels of expanded metal, spanning vertically from floor to ceiling Some panels are fixed, whilst others slide to one side or the other Thus the occupiers of the apartments are capable of creating random variations in the elevation On the inner face of the scheme, large boxes are cantilevered off the sides of the elevation to provide accommodation beyond the building line These spaces are arranged in an apparently casual, un-ordered fashion Whilst the accommodation hugs the sides of the site, virtually the whole of the ground floor is given over to parking However this has been roofed over to provide a useful amenity for the occupants Project is not public! 2008 Services engineer Structural engineer Dosmasuno Arquitectos JG asociados Jose Luis de Miguel EMV davidb Nearest Metro station is 'La Peseta' (Line 11) 22

23 photo: Alberto M Sánchez photo: Alberto M Sánchez 170 social houses in Sanchinarro Calle de Princesa de Éboli Madrid This housing block contains 170 social houses, built in the new urban expansion area of Madrid: Sanchinarro The block is not entirely closed, it is open on the south side, where the lighter inner façade is visible This way, the inner courtyard is related to the street The houses are entered from the inner courtyard, and the façade here is more 'domestic', while the exterior refers to the urban scale of the surroundings The block has a higher part on one side, to provide orientation and a recognisable landmark on one corner Project is not public! 2007 Burgos & Garrido City of Madrid asanchez photo: Alberto M Sánchez The complex lies on the corner of Avenida del Alcalde Moreno Torres and Calle de Princesa de Éboli Arrival by bus Routes 173, 174 departing from Plaza de Castilla Bus / Metro Station 23

24 photo: Alberto M Sánchez photo: Alberto M Sánchez Panorama building Calle de Dulce Chacón Madrid To keep a maximum of 'garden space' available on ground floor, the architects decided to built a high housing-tower next to 2 low-rise blocks that border the 11000m2 of garden The Panorama building has been awarded with the Urbanism, ure and Public Work prize that the City Hall of Madrid awards every year Panorama is located in the Isla Chamartín, next to the enlargement of Paseo de la Castellana and the spectacular skyscrapers that rise over the Ciudad Deportiva of Real Madrid An area conceived to become, in the short run, the financial centre of Madrid Project is not public! Floor area/size m² Junquera Arquitectos Landscape Grupo Lar asanchez photo: Alberto M Sánchez 24

25 photo: Marco De Trizio photo: Marco De Trizio Spanish National Statistics Institute Paseo de la Castellana Madrid The Spanish National Statistics Institute is located in Paseo de la Castellana, Madrid, near Plaza de Castilla It was recently renewed by architect César Ruíz-Larrea The original structure was built in 1973, but what is now only visibile is the fresh new façade, composed of hundreds of coloured panels, which represent the statistics itself This curious façade is called 'Diafragma Decafónico de Dígitos' and is an artwork by sculptor Pepe Cruz Novillo It is a transcription system that transforms colours into numbers (0-9) The equivalents for the colours and numbers are: 1 Red, 2 Orange, 3 Green, 4 Rose, 5 Yellow, 6 Dark Green, 7 Violet, 8 Blue, 9 Light Blue and 0 Brown The 001 panel line for example symbolizes the Spanish area in square kilometres: The 002 is 's population: , and so on Public access unknown! 2008 Artist Pepe Cruz Novillo Marco_De_Trizio photo: Marco De Trizio Metro: Plaza de Castilla 25

26 photo: Marco De Trizio photo: Nazar Leskiw Torre Caja Repsol Tower Paseo Castellana 278, Madrid Torre Caja Madrid (Spanish for Caja Madrid Tower) is a skyscraper located in the Cuatro Torres Business Area in Madrid, With a height of 250 m and 45 floors, it will be the tallest of the four buildings in the complex, just 89 cm above the Torre de Cristal Designed by Lord Norman Foster, it was first known as Torre Repsol and would have served as headquarters for Repsol YPF oil and gas company During the construction of the tower, Repsol decided to change the location of its future headquarters and the financial institution Caja Madrid purchased the building for 815 million Euro in August 2007 Public access unknown! 2008 Foster & Partners Caja Madrid, Repsol YPF Marco_De_Trizio photo: Marco De Trizio 26

27 photo: Ángel Baltanás photo: Ángel Baltanás housing in the PAU of Carabanchel Calle De las Campanas Madrid We have hunted a piece of field,we want to propose an idea absolutely contemporary of the city The possibility of joining two opposite emotions nowadays The need of living in the pushing urban culture with the so called ancient to belong to a landscape, to identify on itselfwe sponge the edificability, create a precinct which enclosures a more natural landscape, with movement of heights and lowerings (achieved with the bringing with the grant of the digging lands of the multi-storey car parks) where look and enjoy it all of the housingslandscape with attached trees, the little forests' metaphor, swimming pools that remind natural lakes, as well as sportive places inlaid on those topographies A new topology capable to generate an stunning central space, conceived like a true main character of the group photo: Ángel Baltanás Project is public! Artist Ruíz-Larrea & Associates Ray

28 photo: Ángel Baltanás photo: Ángel Baltanás 4 towers in Parla Avenida de la Estrella Madrid Avenida de las estrellas The rendering of a common strategy it lifts us to a saving of the costs of performing derivative of the repetition in sequence and mass-production,at the same time that offers us the chance of a dialogue between the two blocks which contain the housings, they lay in a lot of socles shape from the concrete walls of closing ground floor throughout the removed band ventilation of them The volumes of the housings are pierced with a set of cluster windows in holes with meant plastical claim, making quiver the crumbling of prefabricated panels of concrete photo: Ángel Baltanás Project is public! Ruíz-Larrea & Associates Ray

29 photo: Alberto M Sánchez photo: Carlos Dias Celosia Calle de Isabel Clara Eugenia Madrid Edificio Celosia means Lattice building This social housing project is an alternative solution to the closed block The proposal aspires to be a construction system rather than a unique building The block, in the form of lattice, mixes 30 constructed boxes and 30 empty spaces Those empty spaces are for intermediate neighbourhood life The volumes contain homes of 1, 2 and 3 bedrooms and the vertical courtyards are common spaces open to crossed perspectives in all directions The birds, wind and the sun cut through the building The mold building system tests the effectiveness and quality of a faster and more sustainable construction (text from website Blanca Lleo) photo: Alberto M Sánchez Project is not public! Floor area/size m² Main designer, MVRDV Blanca Lleó asociados Ayuntamiento de Madrid and EVMS MI_MOA Metro ML 1 to Álvarez de Villaami 29

30 photo: Somos Arquitectos photo: Somos Arquitectos Vallecas 51 Social Housing Avenida del Ensanche de Vallecas Madrid This social housing project in Madrid has an original façade design with polycarbonate panels in three hues of green In fact, it is one of the first residential projects which features plastic materials as a skin The programme, including 123 social housing apartments, is called to be one of the new urban icons on the outskirts of Madrid photo: Somos Arquitectos Project is not public! Floor area/size m², Interior architect, Landscape architect Somos Arquitectos ESTUDIOSOMOS EMVS (Empresa Municipal de la Vivienda y el Suelo) When entering the gates, make either ask the guard or walk with an inhabitant 30

31 photo: Somos Arquitectos photo: Somos Arquitectos Vallecas 11 Social Housing Bulevar de la Naturaleza Madrid This is another social housing project in the Vallecas district of Madrid, designed by Somos Arquitectos In this case, the main skin is an opal, polycarbonate façade with panels perforated with circles in different configurations The building dissapears in the corner The three upper levels, floating in the air, are held by one floor-high, reinforced concrete beams All the main finishes are made in plastic materials, including indoor and outdoor lighting, interior rubber floorings, etc photo: Somos Arquitectos Project is not public! Floor area/size m² Somos Arquitectos EMVS (Empresa Municipal de la vivienda y el Suelo) ESTUDIOSOMOS 31

32 photo: Somos Arquitectos photo: Somos Arquitectos Embajadores Social Housing Corner of Calle Rodio and Calle del Plomo Madrid This social housing block completes the volume of an already existing private housing development The materials, openings, scale and orientation try to detach from the usual brick construction systems Clearly focused onto an open green area, it dresses its south-west façade with bright-blue louvers while the others, made out in prefab concrete, form a cube which seems to float over the neighbour's yellow fence A robot-parking system takes care of the small amount of space left in the tiny plot Project is not public! Floor area/size m², Interior architect, Landscape architect Somos Arquitectos ESTUDIOSOMOS photo: Somos Arquitectos EMVS (Empresa municipal de la Vivienda y el Suelo) 32

33 photo: Jorge López Conde photo: Jorge López Conde Vallecas Social Housing José antonio Rebolledo Palma Madrid This project is the result of a competition at the end of 2003 The philosophy of the competition was that each team would offer the best architecture solution that was able to imagine, subject to compliance with the economic parameters for the lot; maximum surface to be built and number of dwellings, and always considering that it is a social housing development The 22-storey building has two towers of different heights and it consists of 132 one and two bedrooms housing units Above ground, the building occupies 70% of the limit set by the alignment of the façades, with a general setback to liberate more public space on the front sidewalk access and natural relief of ground floor commercial use This setback can avoid the typical chamfers of the area planning and work with sharper volume geometry The building is clad in zinc tiles and windows are scattered across the surface so that the boundaries of individual dwellings are hidden from the outside Project is not public! Floor area/size m² Structural engineer Estudio Entresitio FR & Asociados Empresa Municipal de Vivienda y Suelo de Madrid eames photo: estudioentresitio The easiest way to arrive is with the metro (Valdecarros station) 33