A Marble-Made Tent In The Galaxy. RÒMOLA by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation
22/11/2017.
[MAD] Spain
metalocus, PABLO SEBASTIÁN
metalocus, PABLO SEBASTIÁN
The project is the result of a strategy to work with a small number of super-qualified marble manufacturers, leather upholsterers, metal benders and chrome-platers, rare-wood panelers and artisan varnishers to reintroduce into the city’s ecosystem the counter-austerity dissident space of the cafetería as a resistance to ceramic corporative hegemony.
RÒMOLA by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation. Photograph © Miguel de Guzmán y Rocío Romero. Imagen Subliminal
RÒMOLA by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation. Photograph © Miguel de Guzmán y Rocío Romero. Imagen Subliminal
RÒMOLA by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation. Photograph © Miguel de Guzmán y Rocío Romero. Imagen Subliminal
RÒMOLA by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation. Photograph © Miguel de Guzmán y Rocío Romero. Imagen Subliminal
RÒMOLA by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation. Photograph © Miguel de Guzmán y Rocío Romero. Imagen Subliminal
RÒMOLA by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation. Photograph © Miguel de Guzmán y Rocío Romero. Imagen Subliminal
RÒMOLA by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation. Photograph © Miguel de Guzmán y Rocío Romero. Imagen Subliminal
Facade. RÒMOLA by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation. Photograph © Miguel de Guzmán y Rocío Romero. Imagen Subliminal
Facade. RÒMOLA by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation. Photograph © Miguel de Guzmán y Rocío Romero. Imagen Subliminal
RÒMOLA by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation. Photograph © Miguel de Guzmán y Rocío Romero. Imagen Subliminal
RÒMOLA by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation. Photograph © Miguel de Guzmán y Rocío Romero. Imagen Subliminal
RÒMOLA by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation. Photograph © Miguel de Guzmán y Rocío Romero. Imagen Subliminal
Detail. RÒMOLA by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation. Photograph © Miguel de Guzmán y Rocío Romero. Imagen Subliminal
Detail. RÒMOLA by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation. Photograph © Miguel de Guzmán y Rocío Romero. Imagen Subliminal
Detail. RÒMOLA by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation. Photograph © Miguel de Guzmán y Rocío Romero. Imagen Subliminal
Detail. RÒMOLA by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation. Photograph © Miguel de Guzmán y Rocío Romero. Imagen Subliminal
Detail. RÒMOLA by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation. Photograph © Miguel de Guzmán y Rocío Romero. Imagen Subliminal
RÒMOLA by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation. Photograph © Miguel de Guzmán y Rocío Romero. Imagen Subliminal
RÒMOLA by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation. Photograph © Miguel de Guzmán y Rocío Romero. Imagen Subliminal
RÒMOLA by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation. Photograph © Miguel de Guzmán y Rocío Romero. Imagen Subliminal
RÒMOLA by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation. Photograph © Miguel de Guzmán y Rocío Romero. Imagen Subliminal
RÒMOLA by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation. Photograph © Miguel de Guzmán y Rocío Romero. Imagen Subliminal
RÒMOLA by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation. Photograph © Miguel de Guzmán y Rocío Romero. Imagen Subliminal
RÒMOLA by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation. Photograph © Miguel de Guzmán y Rocío Romero. Imagen Subliminal
RÒMOLA by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation. Photograph © Miguel de Guzmán y Rocío Romero. Imagen Subliminal
RÒMOLA by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation. Photograph © Miguel de Guzmán y Rocío Romero. Imagen Subliminal
RÒMOLA by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation. Photograph © Miguel de Guzmán y Rocío Romero. Imagen Subliminal
Ground floor plan. RÒMOLA by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation.
Basement floor plan. RÒMOLA by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation.
Section. RÒMOLA by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation.
Section. RÒMOLA by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation.
Axonometric. RÒMOLA by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation.
This project, designed by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation, transforms the former 1946 garage, located in the geographical center of Madrid, into an assembly of bakery, café and experimental restaurant. The original volume and structure of the building is recovered, leaving a 5-meter-high space with massive openings onto the streets.The tent accommodates the customers’ tables and allows other uses (including cooking) to being organized in a C-shaped periphery around it.
Description of project by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation
This project transforms the former 1946 garage of Gutierrez Soto’s most significant building, located in the geographical center of Madrid, into an assembly of bakery, café and experimental restaurant. The original volume and structure of the building is recovered, leaving a 5-meter-high space with massive openings onto the streets.
“[Transgender] Zahara is a mix of desert, coincidence and cafetería”
Pedro Almodóvar, La mala educación
Since 2008, architecture in Madrid has suffered the hegemony of austere-looking hydraulic tiles and red ceramic bricks, which are uncritically perceived as old and independent-business oriented, but which paradoxically have become a tool of temporary, low-wage-based labor and corporative franchises and have conducted an unnoticed invasion of the city.
Over nine years, this process has marginalized and set close to extinction the whole material and human context of marble, leather, gold-chrome-plated metal, and rare woods paneling craftwork that has, since the 1960s, been the social base in the development of the network of Madrid’s cafeterías: shining, comfortable places where anonymous service is provided and where this service, delivered with equal and standardized courtesy to everyone, has quickly turned them into spaces where women and LGBTQ communities had historically found an alternative to macho bars.
This project is the result of a strategy to work with a small number of super-qualified marble manufacturers, leather upholsterers, metal benders and chrome-platers, rare-wood panelers and artisan varnishers behind the material production of Madrid’s cafeterias by taking their capacities a step further: to reintroduce into the city’s ecosystem the counter-austerity dissident space of the cafetería as a resistance to ceramic corporative hegemony.
A marble-made tent in the galaxy. Taking advantage of supermarble’s capacities to resist traction.
In the 1990s and 2000s the tiny town of Novelda (Valencia) became the hub for a transnational flow of rare marbles. Now inactive, the town’s extensive pools of accumulated dusty marbles, onyx, and granites from around the world can be seen as an archeology of pre-austerity times. Whereas brick and hydraulic tiles are stock in a discourse of false authenticity, groundness and faked localism; Novelda marbles now embody a refreshingly contingent value.
This ungroundness condition of the marbles is registered by a number of technologies attached to it, such as the glass fiver and resin reinforcements, articulated anchoring systems, intended to render marble as a sort of supermarble, capable not only of resisting compression but also traction. In what has been a unique engineering challenge, the project takes this capacity to its limits, by creating a supermarble-made self-standing tent. The tent accommodates the customers’ tables and allows other uses (including cooking) to being organized in a C-shaped periphery around it.
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Architects
Andrés Jaque. Office for Political Innovation
Team
Laura Mora Vitoria, Roberto González García, Paola Pardo, Víctor Cano Ciborro, Nieves Calvo López, Marina Fernández Ramos, Marta Jarabo Devesa, Danay Kamdar, Pablo Maldonado, Solé Mallol, Valentina Marín, Flavio Martella, Víctor Nouman García, Larissa Reis, Isabel Sánchez del Campo, Belverence Tameau, Borja García Lázaro.
Collaborators
Structural Consultancy.- Mecanismo. Ingeniería de Estructuras (Juan Rey, Jacinto Ruiz). Service Design Consultancy.-
DITEC. Diseño y Tecnología Ingenieros Consultores. Quatity Surveyor.- Alfonso Sáenz. Safe & Security Coordinator.- José María Gutiérrez.
ANDRÉS JAQUE
Andrés Jaque, holds a Ph.D. in architecture. He is the founder of the Office for Political Innovation and the Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, New York.
In 2014 he received the Silver Lion at the 14th Mostra Internazionale di Architettura, Biennale di Venezia.
He is the author of award-winning projects such as Plasencia Clergy House (Dionisio Hernández Gil Prize), House in Never Never Land (Mies Van der Rohe European Union Award's finalist), TUPPER HOME (X Bienal Española de Arquitectura y Urbanismo), or ESCARAVOX (COAM Award 2013). He has also developed architectural performances as well as installations that question political frameworks through architectural practice; including IKEA Disobedients (MoMA Collection, 2011); PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society (Mies Barcelona Pavilion, 2012) or Superpowers of Ten (Lisbon Triennale, 2014).
Andrés Jaque is a Professor of Advanced Design at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) and Visiting Professor at Princeton University's School of Architecture.
