PROJEKAT: MUSEUM ABC. ILLUSTRATION AND DESIGN CENTER
LOKACIJA: C/ AMANIEL 29-31. MADRID
KLIJENT: GRUPO VOCENTO
ARHITEKTI: ARANGUREN & GALLEGOS ARQUITECTOS
AUTORI: MARIA JOSÉ, ARANGUREN LÓPEZ
„Arhitektura je mešavina NOSTALGIJE i IŠČEKIVANJA, koegzistencija istorije i avangarde.“
Žan Bodrijar
Novi ABC Centar za crtež i ilustraciju, osnovan je sa željom da postane umetnička referenca na međunarodnom nivou, ali i simbol kulturne ponude Madrida.
Njegova instalacija u objektu stare fabrike u Kale Amanielu imala je zadatak da se uklopi u istorijsku građevinu, ne odustajući pritom od izražavanja svoje prirode savremenog centra, sa širokom kulturnom i umetničkom ponudom koja je povezana sa najavangardnijim institucijama unutar svog sadržaja.
Postojeći objekat omogućava pristup iz dve ulice, međusobno povezane unutrašnjim platoom. Jedan od ovih prilaza nalazi se ispod jednospratnog, horizontalnog objekta i približava unutrašnji plato ulici. Glavni ulaz u novi ABC Centar predviđen je sa te strane. Pomenuti horizontalni objekat projektovan je kao velika staklena pasarela koja nadvisuje prolaz do unutrašnjeg platoa. Unutar njega nalazi se kafeterija sa staklenim podom kroz koji prodire svetlost.
U nameri da se napravi otvoreni prostor ili „atrium“ za novu instituciju, dozvoljavajući joj da izrazi svoj moderan karakter, ovo rešenje predlaže korišćenje unutrašnjeg platoa kao lobija za ulaz u objekat.
Arhitektonski mehanizam korišćen da bi se došlo do postavljenog cilja, zasniva se na stvaranju „zateznog vakuma“, „prostornog diedra“ formiranog od horizontalne ravni poda platoa i vertikalne ravni spoljne fasade stare fabrike. Obe ravni su napravljene od istog materijala, kaljenog čelika u sivoj mat nijansi i oba sadrže slične trouglaste otvore kroz koje svetlost prodire u unutrašnji prostor. Ovo stvara utisak „bestežinskog stanja“ između realnih, imaginarnih i simboličkih elemenata.
To nas kao „veliki magnet“ privlači i sa izvesnom moći zavođenja vodi, ka unutrašnjosti nove institucije, stvarajući u nama pomešan osećaj radoznalosti, želje i zadovoljstva.
Izgrađen za svako vreme, prostor, sa izvesnim scenografskim karakterom izaziva osećanja koja omogućavaju stvaranje identiteta novog centra.
Poslednja operacija u spoljašnjem delu objekta sastoji se od postavljanja „svetlosnih šipki“ preko krova stare fabrike. Ovom konstrukcijom oslobodio se prostor za smeštaj instalacione mašinerije koja se trenutno tu nalazi, i stvorio se dobro osvetljen prostor za rad i čitanje kojim se predstavlja ABC Fondacija kao nova „baklja u gradu“, u Conde Duque centru.
PROJECT: MUSEUM ABC. ILLUSTRATION AND DESIGN CENTER
LOCATION: C/ AMANIEL 29-31. MADRID
CLIENT: GRUPO VOCENTO
ARCHITECTS: ARANGUREN & GALLEGOS ARQUITECTOS
AUTHORS: MARIA JOSÉ, ARANGUREN LÓPEZ
“Architecture is a mixture of NOSTALGIA and ANTICIPATION, the co-existence of history and vanguard”.
Jean Baudrillard
The new Drawing and Illustration Centre of ABC appears with the will to become an artistic reference at an international level and also a symbol of the cultural offer in Madrid.
Its installation in the building of the old factory in Calle Amaniel, must respond to an intervention that is appropriate for a historical building, without renouncing to express its contemporanean centre nature with a wide cultural and artistic offer linked to the most avant-garde institutions within our context.
The current building provides access from two streets, connecting these with an internal patio.
One of these accesses is currently offered under a one-floor high, longitudinal building body closing the internal patio towards the street.
The main doors for access to the new ABC Centre are considered on this front. The aforementioned longitudinal body is restructured for this, as a large translucent glass “beam” that works as the lintel of a gap for passage to the internal patio. The cafeteria will be housed inside this, with the basement floor of the new centre receiving light through a glass floor for access to the patio.
In order to create a space or “atrium” for the new institution, allowing it to express its contemporanean and modern character, the solution presented proposes using the internal patio for this space as a lobby for access to the building, becoming the waiting area before entering.
The architectural mechanism used to obtain the aim stated is based on the creation of a “tensioned vacuum”, a “spatial dihedron” formed by the horizontal plane of the floor of the patio and the vertical plane of the internal façade of the old factory.
Both planes will be built with the same material, blue annealed steel in a matt grey shade, and both presenting similar triangular gaps, supplying the light inside the spaces served by these.This generates the “weightlessness” between that which is real, imaginary and symbolic.
As a “large magnet” it will attract and transport us, with a certain power of seduction, towards the inside of the new institution, causing combined curiosity, anxiety and pleasure when visiting it.
Building at any time a space with a definite scenographic character does not mean renouncing to dosing the feelings caused in order to mark the identity of the new centre.
The last operation in the external part of the set, consists in creating a “bar of light” over the roof of the old factory. The construction of this intends to provide spaces to house the machinery of the installations, currently located there, to house a well-lit work and reading area over the city and to identify the ABC Foundation as a new “torch in the city” at the Conde Duque centre.
