F.U.A. (Furniture Urban Alphabets) by Eeestudio, Zuloark, D. Cárdenas and L. Villalba
16/04/2020.
[MAD] Spain
metalocus, ÁNGEL TORNE
metalocus, ÁNGEL TORNE
How can we imagine the future of public spaces in our cities, at a time when the warnings and risks of climate change converge, the #fridaysforfuture generation's claims, or the new logics of social distancing in a year in which "How will we live together?" was it the motto of the Venice Biennale?
F.U.A. It is a prototype of public equipment designed as ecology, which brings together the social, the energetic and the environmental. It is identity, reusable and sustainable furniture made from obsolete materials from the municipal warehouses of the Madrid City Council
F.U.A. It is a prototype of public equipment designed as ecology, which brings together the social, the energetic and the environmental. It is identity, reusable and sustainable furniture made from obsolete materials from the municipal warehouses of the Madrid City Council
M A D - P A Z. F.U.A. (Furniture Urban Alphabets) by Eeestudio, Zuloark, D. Cárdenas and L. Villalba. Photograph by Javier de Paz
M A D - P A Z. F.U.A. (Furniture Urban Alphabets) by Eeestudio, Zuloark, D. Cárdenas and L. Villalba. Photograph by Javier de Paz
M A D - P A Z. F.U.A. (Furniture Urban Alphabets) by Eeestudio, Zuloark, D. Cárdenas and L. Villalba. Photograph by Javier de Paz
M A D - P A Z. F.U.A. (Furniture Urban Alphabets) by Eeestudio, Zuloark, D. Cárdenas and L. Villalba. Photograph by Javier de Paz
M A D - P A Z. F.U.A. (Furniture Urban Alphabets) by Eeestudio, Zuloark, D. Cárdenas and L. Villalba. Photograph by Javier de Paz
M A D - P A Z. F.U.A. (Furniture Urban Alphabets) by Eeestudio, Zuloark, D. Cárdenas and L. Villalba. Photograph by Javier de Paz
M A D - P A Z. F.U.A. (Furniture Urban Alphabets) by Eeestudio, Zuloark, D. Cárdenas and L. Villalba. Photograph by Javier de Paz
M A D - P A Z. F.U.A. (Furniture Urban Alphabets) by Eeestudio, Zuloark, D. Cárdenas and L. Villalba. Photograph by Javier de Paz
M A D - P A Z. F.U.A. (Furniture Urban Alphabets) by Eeestudio, Zuloark, D. Cárdenas and L. Villalba. Photograph by Javier de Paz
M A D - P A Z. F.U.A. (Furniture Urban Alphabets) by Eeestudio, Zuloark, D. Cárdenas and L. Villalba. Photograph by Javier de Paz
M A D - P A Z. F.U.A. (Furniture Urban Alphabets) by Eeestudio, Zuloark, D. Cárdenas and L. Villalba. Photograph by Javier de Paz
M A D - P A Z. F.U.A. (Furniture Urban Alphabets) by Eeestudio, Zuloark, D. Cárdenas and L. Villalba. Photograph by Javier de Paz
M A D - P A Z. F.U.A. (Furniture Urban Alphabets) by Eeestudio, Zuloark, D. Cárdenas and L. Villalba. Photograph by Javier de Paz
M A D - P A Z. F.U.A. (Furniture Urban Alphabets) by Eeestudio, Zuloark, D. Cárdenas and L. Villalba. Photograph by Javier de Paz
M A D - P A Z. F.U.A. (Furniture Urban Alphabets) by Eeestudio, Zuloark, D. Cárdenas and L. Villalba. Photograph by Javier de Paz
M A D - P A Z. F.U.A. (Furniture Urban Alphabets) by Eeestudio, Zuloark, D. Cárdenas and L. Villalba. Photograph by Javier de Paz
M A D - P A Z. F.U.A. (Furniture Urban Alphabets) by Eeestudio, Zuloark, D. Cárdenas and L. Villalba. Photograph by Enrique Espinosa
M A D - P A Z. F.U.A. (Furniture Urban Alphabets) by Eeestudio, Zuloark, D. Cárdenas and L. Villalba. Photograph by Enrique Espinosa
M A D - P A Z. F.U.A. (Furniture Urban Alphabets) by Eeestudio, Zuloark, D. Cárdenas and L. Villalba. Photograph by Javier de Paz
M A D - P A Z. F.U.A. (Furniture Urban Alphabets) by Eeestudio, Zuloark, D. Cárdenas and L. Villalba. Photograph by Javier de Paz
M A D - P A Z. F.U.A. (Furniture Urban Alphabets) by Eeestudio, Zuloark, D. Cárdenas and L. Villalba. Photograph by Javier de Paz
M A D - P A Z. F.U.A. (Furniture Urban Alphabets) by Eeestudio, Zuloark, D. Cárdenas and L. Villalba. Photograph by Javier de Paz
M A D - P A Z. Axonometry. F.U.A. (Furniture Urban Alphabets) by Eeestudio, Zuloark, D. Cárdenas and L. Villalba.
M A D - P A Z. Axonometry. F.U.A. (Furniture Urban Alphabets) by Eeestudio, Zuloark, D. Cárdenas and L. Villalba.
M A D - P A Z. Elevations and plans. F.U.A. (Furniture Urban Alphabets) by Eeestudio, Zuloark, D. Cárdenas and L. Villalba.
I M A G I N A. F.U.A. (Furniture Urban Alphabets) by Eeestudio, Zuloark, D. Cárdenas and L. Villalba. Photograph by Javier de Paz
I M A G I N A. F.U.A. (Furniture Urban Alphabets) by Eeestudio, Zuloark, D. Cárdenas and L. Villalba. Photograph by Javier de Paz
I M A G I N A. F.U.A. (Furniture Urban Alphabets) by Eeestudio, Zuloark, D. Cárdenas and L. Villalba. Photograph by Javier de Paz
I M A G I N A. F.U.A. (Furniture Urban Alphabets) by Eeestudio, Zuloark, D. Cárdenas and L. Villalba. Photograph by Javier de Paz
I M A G I N A. F.U.A. (Furniture Urban Alphabets) by Eeestudio, Zuloark, D. Cárdenas and L. Villalba. Photograph by Javier de Paz
I M A G I N A. F.U.A. (Furniture Urban Alphabets) by Eeestudio, Zuloark, D. Cárdenas and L. Villalba. Photograph by Javier de Paz
I M A G I N A. F.U.A. (Furniture Urban Alphabets) by Eeestudio, Zuloark, D. Cárdenas and L. Villalba. Photograph by Galerna Estudio
I M A G I N A. F.U.A. (Furniture Urban Alphabets) by Eeestudio, Zuloark, D. Cárdenas and L. Villalba. Photograph by Javier de PazA. F.U.A. (Furniture Urban Alphabets) by Eeestudio, Zuloark, D. Cárdenas and L. Villalba. Photograph by Javier de Paz
I M A G I N A. F.U.A. (Furniture Urban Alphabets) by Eeestudio, Zuloark, D. Cárdenas and L. Villalba. Photograph by Galerna Estudio
I M A G I N A. F.U.A. (Furniture Urban Alphabets) by Eeestudio, Zuloark, D. Cárdenas and L. Villalba. Photograph by Luis Asín
I M A G I N A. F.U.A. (Furniture Urban Alphabets) by Eeestudio, Zuloark, D. Cárdenas and L. Villalba. Photograph by Luis Asín
I M A G I N A. Elevations and plans. F.U.A. (Furniture Urban Alphabets) by Eeestudio, Zuloark, D. Cárdenas and L. Villalba.
Furniture letters project was developed from logic of reuse and adaptability, by David Cárdenas, Lys Villalba, Zuloark, EEEstudio, from November 2016 when the third pavilion of the Madrid City Council in CONAMA (National Congress of the Environment) was inaugurated and starred with three letters MA D.
In April 2017, at the Peace Forum, three letters P A Z were performed, which were added to M A D in the main meeting space. And after a few months, 7 more letters are added, I M A G I N A. Since 2018 the letters are part of equipment of Matadero Madrid.
In April 2017, at the Peace Forum, three letters P A Z were performed, which were added to M A D in the main meeting space. And after a few months, 7 more letters are added, I M A G I N A. Since 2018 the letters are part of equipment of Matadero Madrid.
Project description by Eeestudio, Zuloark, D. Cárdenas and L. Villalba
F.U.A. (Furniture + Urban + Alphabets)
Identical, reusable and sustainable furniture made from obsolete materials from the municipal warehouses of the Madrid City Council.
How can we imagine the future of public spaces in our cities, at a time when warnings and risks of climate change, the #fridaysforfuture generation's claims, or the new logics of social distancing converge, in a year in which "How will we live together?" is the motto of the Venice Biennale?
F.U.A. is a prototype of public equipment designed as ecology that brings together the social, the energetic and the environmental, and like all prototypes, it has a history:
MAD PAZ
In November 2016, the third stand of the Madrid City Council was inaugurated at CONAMA (National Congress of the Environment). For the third consecutive year, the material is a pedagogical experience: a stand that through its operation and materiality shows Madrid's environmental policies, based on reuse, naturalization, sustainability, second lives, social cohesion, encounter, open source and participation. 3 letters-furniture starred in said stand: M A D
In April 2017, in the Peace Forum (World Forum on Urban Violence and Peace Education), which took place in Madrid, three letters P A Z were added to M A D in the main meeting space of the Forum. A second life.
Since April 2017, M A D and P A Z have been in the north courtyard of the Conde Duque Cultural Center ... public furniture in which adolescents study, families snack, children play, retirees rest, in relation to the nearby Municipal Library. A third life.
IMAGINA
In the summer of 2017, the Imagina Madrid program incorporates seven letters as an identity element: I M A G I N A, which travel by truck to each of the 9 sites in the Imagina program, aimed at reactivating sites and public spaces in different Madrid districts.
Since 2018 I M A G I N A is part of the equipment of Matadero Madrid. Another second life.
URBAN PROTOTYPES
This whole set of sustainable urban furniture is built from the logic of reuse, encounter and mobility. A design of metal frames on wheels allows the installation of a lighting and signage system made up of luminaires recovered from municipal lighting warehouses (globes of sodium lamps that are gradually being removed and turning into waste) with new LED elements powered by solar panels. In addition, this urban furniture includes seating spaces, built from wooden planks recovered from deteriorated Madrid benches, which had previously been stockpiled in municipal public furniture warehouses.
All this experience is a sample of how other sensible and creative logics allow the construction of objects and spaces based on a sustainable and social design.
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Architects
Design team
David Cárdenas, EEEstudio (Enrique Espinosa), Juanito Jones, Maria Mallo, Lys Villalba, Zuloark.
Production
Manuel Muñoz, Lorenzo Pulido. The project reuses old street lamps and woods from Madrid benches, supplied by the Municipal Warehouses for materials in the Villa de Madrid.
Client
Madrid City Council - DG Sustainability and Environmental Control. Coordination: María Álvarez. Imagine Madrid. Coordination.- Juan López-Aranguren.
Dates
2016-2019
Photography
Javier de Paz, Enrique Espinosa, Luis Asín.
Juan Chacón. ZULOARK
Zuloark is an Open Office of Architecture and Urbanism founded in 2001. Since then, the office has worked on liquid and collaborative professional models, building shared responsibility environments in which to share the authorship of projects with as many agents as possible. It currently has an open office in Madrid, Berlin, Barcelona, Mexico City and Brussels.
Zuloark's activity, working on different platforms such as El Campo de Cebada or Inteligencias Colectivas, has been internationally recognized with different awards, Golden Nica 2013, XII Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennial Award, 2012 Ibero-American Architecture and Urbanism Biennial Award, Urbanism Award at the IV Arquia Próxima Awards, First Arquia Próxima 2012 Award and UN Best Practice at the 2014 Dubai International Award.
His work has been shown in different cultural institutions around the world, such as the MoMA in NewYork, the Akademie Der Kunste in Berlin, the Lisbon Architecture Triennial or in Matadero Madrid.
Enrique Espinosa. Eeestudio
Enrique Espinosa is a co-founder architect of PKMN architectures (2006-2016), director of Eeestudio since 2016 and professor and researcher at the Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM) since 2015 within the CoLaboratorio teaching unit.
Her practice revolves around collaborative production and learning processes, working in open networks.
He has participated in other contexts such as the Venice Biennale 2016 and 2018, or as a guest editor in the magazine Arquitectura 375 of the COAM.
Her practice revolves around collaborative production and learning processes, working in open networks.
He has participated in other contexts such as the Venice Biennale 2016 and 2018, or as a guest editor in the magazine Arquitectura 375 of the COAM.
Lys Villalba
Lys Villalba (Madrid, 1981) is an architect, educator and independent researcher, graduate of the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid ETSAM (M.Arch 2008) and Visiting Scholar at Columbia University’s GSAPP (2016-2017). Her work explores the intersection of architecture and the social, technological, and political realms, and was nominated for the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative 2016.
Her research The City Writes Itself received the Spanish Royal Academy of Fine Arts/Arquia fellowship 2016, the Matadero Madrid/Tokyo Wonder Site grant 2015, and was exhibited at the Japan Pavilion 16th Venice Biennale 2018.
Villalba is cofounder of Zoohaus Collective, whose project Collective Intelligences has developed fieldwork research and prototyping projects in 15 countries, in collaboration with universities, cultural institutions and local collectives; and has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) in Vienna.
Villalba is a professor at IED Madrid since 2012, and has been a Visiting Proffesor at different architecture
schools worldwide, such as CUINDA Bangkok (Thailand), Keio University Tokyo (Japan), Lebanese American University New York (USA), Universidad Javeriana Bogotá (Colombia), FAU Arquitectura Santiago (Chile); and a guest juror and lecturer at Harvard GSD Tokyo, University of Virginia, Bartlett School of Architecture, ETSAM, and Columbia GSAPP, among other institutions. Her works and articles have been published in MoMA Ed., Architectural Design, Damdi, El País, World Architecture magazine, Urbanism and Architecture, Arquitectura Viva, Domus web, etc.
Previously she worked as an architect at Foreign Office Architects in London (UK), Herzog & de Meuron in
Basel (Switzerland), Izaskun Chinchilla Architects in Madrid (Spain), and was a member of the editorial board of Arquitectura Viva magazine in Madrid (Spain).
Her research The City Writes Itself received the Spanish Royal Academy of Fine Arts/Arquia fellowship 2016, the Matadero Madrid/Tokyo Wonder Site grant 2015, and was exhibited at the Japan Pavilion 16th Venice Biennale 2018.
Villalba is cofounder of Zoohaus Collective, whose project Collective Intelligences has developed fieldwork research and prototyping projects in 15 countries, in collaboration with universities, cultural institutions and local collectives; and has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) in Vienna.
Villalba is a professor at IED Madrid since 2012, and has been a Visiting Proffesor at different architecture
schools worldwide, such as CUINDA Bangkok (Thailand), Keio University Tokyo (Japan), Lebanese American University New York (USA), Universidad Javeriana Bogotá (Colombia), FAU Arquitectura Santiago (Chile); and a guest juror and lecturer at Harvard GSD Tokyo, University of Virginia, Bartlett School of Architecture, ETSAM, and Columbia GSAPP, among other institutions. Her works and articles have been published in MoMA Ed., Architectural Design, Damdi, El País, World Architecture magazine, Urbanism and Architecture, Arquitectura Viva, Domus web, etc.
Previously she worked as an architect at Foreign Office Architects in London (UK), Herzog & de Meuron in
Basel (Switzerland), Izaskun Chinchilla Architects in Madrid (Spain), and was a member of the editorial board of Arquitectura Viva magazine in Madrid (Spain).
David Cárdenas
David Cárdenas es arquitecto por la UA, y máster MPAA ETSAM. Su práctica vincula arquitectura, diseño estratégico (Estudio Banana, Fjord) e ilustración.
