A space of changes and dualities, SOLO Space by estudio Herreros
29/09/2017.
[5/5]+[1] Open House Madrid 2017 [MAD] Spain 30.09>01.10.2017
metalocus, DANIEL MADERA
metalocus, DANIEL MADERA
Description of the project by estudio Herreros
SOLO Space is a place in permanent change as it is the art collection that it lodges. It is a project in which the architecture is developed in parallel with the construction of an art collection. In this way, architecture and art form two sections of the same present that show in each moment what is and what they want to be, becoming the expression and a mirror of their promoters that are looking for a project that establishes the coordinates of their installation in the present.
SOLO Space is an intimate and collective place at the same time. We shun the words "private" and "public." It is a space to house a very particular collection that brings together creations of artists linked to the post-pop and post-street-art movements in all their formats - mainly painting, but also sculpture, objects, furniture, videos, installations, etc., all produced in "real time". That is why we use the word "actual, of what it has of the mixture of lightness of what may not remain and the exciting risk of betting on what will remain as an expression of its time in the future, and we shun the word "contemporary" to avoid the solemnity of the reconstruction of a recent time over the security of relying on consecrated references.
The architecture responds to this challenge by managing a few industrial materials used in a heterodox way in an unexpected scenario that mixes recognizable, luminous and silent rooms where the protagonism belongs to the works of art, with dark, broken paths that vary width and relationship in relation with the exterior, with an ambiguous condition between rest, exhibition or logistical space, full of surprises such as the projection and conference room, some spaces with double height and the places of storage and work in which one feels that he is in the wrong place.
Juan Herreros. PhD Architect, Chair Professor and Director of the Thesis Program at the Madrid School of Architecture, as well as a Visiting Professor at Columbia University in New York. He has previously taught at EPFL in Lausanne, Architectural Association in London, SOA at Princeton and ITT in Chicago. Throughout the years he has held numerous lectures, courses and international seminars as well as research workshops.
In 1984, he founded, together with Iñaki Abalos, the office Abalos&Herreros, in 1992 the Multimedia International League LMI and in 2006 he founded his current office, Herreros Arquitectos through which he pursues his professional, teaching and pedagogical activity. His work has been widely published and awarded ( COAM Award; the award of Urbanism and Architecture of the City Council of Madrid; he has been selected for the Spanish Architecture Biennale, finalist for Mies Van der Rohe Award, finalist in FAD awards, and winner of the Solutia Design Award).
His work has been displayed in collective exhibitions such as the ones promoted by the MOMA and individual exhibitions (AA London, IIT Chicago...). Two of them stand out, “Grand Tour”, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and ICO in Madrid. Amongst his books the most notable are Tower&Office (with I. Ábalos, MIT Press), Isla Ciudad (Actar), Palacios de la Diversión (Mairea), PTb-Cedric Price (Ministerio de Fomento-COAM), Vivienda SXXI (Casa Encendida-Actar) along several monographic compilations of his work.
His recent work has been published by the architect’s council of Tarragona (AT#18) and Summa magazine of Buenos Aires. HerrerosArquitectos is currently working on projects in Spain, Norway, USA, Panamá, Mexico and Uruguay. Juan Herreros has received the International Fellowship of the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects), the Medal of Fine Arts from the city of San Lorenzo de El Escorial and has been nominated for the 2010 Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.