ShowCase is an on-going feature series on Archinect, presenting exciting new work from designers representing all creative fields and all geographies.
We are always accepting nominations for upcoming ShowCase features - if you would like to suggest a project, please send us a message.
From the beginning, the project was conceived as the possibility of making the "underground" visible, a construction devised as a radical manifestation of Madrid’s outskirts youthful spirit in general, and of Rivas' youth groups in particular.
The project aspires to become an explicit "teen" communication vehicle by appropriating their language and their voices as the ingredients of the project. In this way, the project’s team embraces all Rivas's youth groups by means of an open participation process, in which the future users of the center, combined with technicians and politicians, will contribute their decisions, their concerns, their fantasies and their aesthetics to create a contemporary "social monument".
↑ Click image to enlarge
Photo: Miguel de Guzmán
↑ Click image to enlarge
Photo: Miguel de Guzmán
↑ Click image to enlarge
Photo: Miguel de Guzmán
↑ Click image to enlarge
Photo: Miguel de Guzmán
↑ Click image to enlarge
Photo: Miguel de Guzmán
↑ Click image to enlarge
Photo: Miguel de Guzmán
↑ Click image to enlarge
Photo: Miguel de Guzmán
↑ Click image to enlarge
Photo: Miguel de Guzmán
↑ Click image to enlarge
Photo: Miguel de Guzmán
↑ Click image to enlarge
Photo: Miguel de Guzmán
↑ Click image to enlarge
Photo: Miguel de Guzmán
↑ Click image to enlarge
Photo: Miguel de Guzmán
↑ Click image to enlarge
Photo: Miguel de Guzmán
↑ Click image to enlarge
Photo: Miguel de Guzmán
The end result of this process is a public structure with a punk spirit, intensely burdened with content and articulated around programmatic centers conceived as activity explosions, which are erected as meeting and exchange points of the emerging communities.
↑ Click image to enlarge
Program diagram
↑ Click image to enlarge
Floor plan
↑ Click image to enlarge
Program diagram for roof terrace
↑ Click image to enlarge
Section 1
↑ Click image to enlarge
Section 2
↑ Click image to enlarge
Section 3
Mi5 Architecture and Social Fantasy
Mi5's history traces back to the turn of the century as a suggestive and innovative practice midway between construction and research.
Their work focuses on the search for alternative and yet unexplored public management strategies, utilizing fantasy as a powerful, dynamic motor of social processes.
Mi5 is a team comprising Manuel Collado Arpia and Nacho Martín Asunción. They have been teaching at the Architectural Polytechnical Universities of Alicante, Alcala de Henares, and Camilo Jose Cela, fashion design at the European Institute of Design (IED Madrid), visiting faculty at the Architectural Association in London, as well as participating in several workshops, juries, and lectures.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License .
/Creative Commons License
12 Comments
i like this project with all its fizz!
this is NOT the kind of architecture I want to do when I growup
It looks like it just flew in from Melbourne.
http://www.a-r-m.com.au/
I wonder if there's any connection there?
The surfaces look univiting for kids imo. It feels very hard and 'sharp' to me. The exterior looks the same, intriguing, but not very invitiing. The landscape looks cold. I wish they would show more of the site! I get the feeling they left it out for good reason.
I like the windows.
does anyone else see coney island or jersey-shore boardwalk when looking at that 3/4 photo real quick?
beautiful interiors. SHITTY THEME PARK EXTERIORS.
What was the cost?
I just wonder why there was not a single person in the photos, not at all as what they proposed in the section drawings.
Does it mean something?
:P
What about the urban context?
hm. my reaction was 100% negative - but then my 4yo and 2yo saw the pictures and loved it. 4yo: 'that building looks like it's from cartoons.'
they're not teens - the target audience of this place. but...should i reconsider?
I would not be able to stay inside this building very long..... the colors would make me sweat. I agree with others that the environment is stark and univiting... banned to the outskirts of town, and it does not appear very sustainable. Rich
i think as soon as the anchor stores come in and the arcade opens up this place will be complete...then the hordes will come, complete in their pink convertible VWs. um, i think that reese witherspoon's character from legally blonde would definitely approve of this building...for the rest of us, though......
i'm glad it looks like it's somewhere surrounded by a parking lot. sometimes all that asphalt is good for something....it's like the modern day equivalent of the moat in medieval town planning.
Block this user
Are you sure you want to block this user and hide all related comments throughout the site?
Archinect
This is your first comment on Archinect. Your comment will be visible once approved.