Giner de los Ríos Foundation by Amid cero9

22/09/2015. [4/6] OPEN HOUSE MADRID + 2015 COAM AWARD [MAD] Spain
metalocus, IRENE GARCÍA

Giner de los Ríos Foundation, designed by Cristina Díaz and Efrén Garcia has just been announced as the winner of 2015 COAM Awards. One more reason to invite you to visit this project as part of Open House Madrid, in which more than one hundred buildings will open their doors to the public during the next weekend.

Giner de los Ríos Foundation by Amid.cero9. Photography © José Hevia. Courtesy of COAM

Giner de los Ríos Foundation by Amid.cero9. Photography © José Hevia. Courtesy of COAM

Giner de los Ríos Foundation by Amid.cero9. Photography © José Hevia. Courtesy of COAM.

Fundación Giner de los Ríos por Amid.cero9. Fotografía © José Hevia. Cortesía del COAM.

Giner de los Ríos Foundation by Amid.cero9. Photography © José Hevia. Courtesy of COAM.

Interior view. Giner de los Ríos Foundation by Amid.cero9. Photography © José Hevia. Courtesy of COAM.

Assembly Hall. Giner de los Ríos Foundation by Amid.cero9. Photography © José Hevia. Courtesy of COAM.

Giner de los Ríos Foundation by Amid.cero9. Photography © José Hevia. Courtesy of COAM.

Section. Giner de los Ríos Foundation by Amid.cero9.

Diagram. Giner de los Ríos Foundation by Amid.cero9. Courtesy of COAM.

Garden plan. Giner de los Ríos Foundation by Amid.cero9. Courtesy of COAM.

Ground floor plan. Giner de los Ríos Foundation by Amid.cero9. Courtesy of COAM.

Basement plan. Giner de los Ríos Foundation by Amid.cero9. Courtesy of COAM.

First floor plan. Giner de los Ríos Foundation by Amid.cero9. Courtesy of COAM.

Second floor plan. Giner de los Ríos Foundation by Amid.cero9. Courtesy of COAM.

Section. Giner de los Ríos Foundation by Amid.cero9. Courtesy of COAM.

Giner de los Ríos Foundation by Amid.cero9. Photography © José Juan Barba / METALOCUS.

Interior view. Giner de los Ríos Foundation by Amid.cero9. Photography © José Juan Barba / METALOCUS.

Assembly Hall. Giner de los Ríos Foundation by Amid.cero9. Photography © José Juan Barba / METALOCUS.

Open House Madrid invites you to visit the latest project of Amid.cero9 for Institución Libre de Enseñanza [Institution of the Free Education]. The garden is hidden in the centre of Madrid which has just received the First Prize awarded by COAM for 'its excellent implementation in its place at the urban level, managing a successful and appropriate scale'.

In 2003, due to the deteriorating conditions of the Foundation buildings, a process for the rehabilitation and expansion of its headquarters starts with a design competition, whose winners are Cristina Díaz Moreno and Efrén García Grinda. Their proposal fully maintains the historical buildings -the house of Giner and Cossio, who existed before the arrival of the institution, and Macpherson Pavilion-. The rest of the buildings are replaced by a series of volumes related to each other through the garden, the space generator of the whole project. The idea of the garden as a "meeting" is preserved and becomes a room continuously changing and showing its evolution over the passing of the seasons. A lively and active space recovered thanks to graphic and written documentation and the work of landscapist Teresa Galí-Izard.

The building remains only as the element that shapes the garden, ceding the centre stage to the open space. The rooms of the foundation, both indoors and outdoors, are orientated towards the garden, creating incoming and outgoing shapes. This decision allows dividing the garden into sectors and therefore generating multiple different gardens. These visual cones determine the disposition of the volumes, with the aim of creating spaces with different levels of privacy and exposure.

"The classrooms are multifocal spaces without a predominant direction. They are surrounded by a glass enclosure and flexible hanging systems which permit modifying the interior lightning or acoustic properties with ease. Its geometry replicates the garden plantation system and allows different configurations in order to test with space as an educational tool. The variety of sizes and groups of rooms, as well as the possibility of opening of the building envelope, allows understanding the rooms in perfect continuity with the outside. "

The ideas of the institution are also present in the choice of materials, which have been chosen to be sustainable, durable, frugal and easy to maintain. The outer envelope facing the garden is formed by a metallic lattice which varies the scale of its bars and their capability to act as a sunscreen and visual filter between the classrooms and the outdoor space.

Amid.cero9 defines the extension as a "specialized common wall." The building is constructed as a wall that is deformed to widen and compress along the perimeter to accommodate rooms of different sizes, without physically separating space. This implies that future changes in the condition of use won't be a problem, as the flexible system of the Foundation is friendly towards the change of functions. The height of the previous buildings has remained, leaving underground the zone for public events. Spaces pour over the main hall, with the ability to open or close, varying the size of the room the audience requires.

"The project aims at the same time to settle into the emotional geography of the Foundation and into its ideology, carefully weaving the relationships between people and their material and intellectual legacy in order to build an evocation of the spirit of the institution without uncritical conservation of the past, recognizing the value and spatial scale of the existing garden and pavilions, but redefining it so confidently and optimistically through a completely contemporary sensibility to help project of the Foundation into the future."

FOUNDATION FRANCISCO GINER DE LOS RÍOS by AMID.cero9.

Where.- Paseo del General Martínez Campos, 14.
When.- friday 25-09-2015 from 10.00 to 11.00, saturday 26-09-2015 and sunday 27-09-2015, from 10:00 to 14:00 and from 16:00 to 0:00.
Registration.- Sold out.

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Architects

AMID [cero9]. Architects.- Cristina Diaz Moreno and Efrén Garcia Grinda.

Design team

Competition.- Franco Ana Belen, Iñigo González-Haba Plana, David Marsinyach, Jorge Martin Sainz de los Terreros. Jaime Bartolome Yllera.
Design project.- Íñigo González-Haba Plana, Julia Gómez Candela, Jesus Island, José Quintanar Iniesta, Jorge Saz Semolino, Rebecca Vallecillo.

Client

Foundation Giner [Free Institution of Education].

Dates

2004 (competition). 2006-2007 (project). 2014 (construction). Completion.- 2015.

Location

P.º del Gral. Martínez Campos, 14. 28010 - Madrid, Spain.

Competition

Restricted competition, 1st prize.

Photography

José Hevia. José Juan Barba.

Amid Cero9 García Grinda y Díaz Moreno

Cristina Díaz Moreno & Efrén García Grinda. An afterpop approach to contemporary notion of space that enlists sociology, technology, media, politics and representation in projects ranging from architecture (Cherry Blossom Pavilion in Jerte Valley, Spain, shown at the 12th Biennale di Venezia, Giner de los Ríos Foundation in Madrid, Diagonal80 Industrial Pavillion in Madrid) to design (ESA Pavillion), to ecosystemic studies (The Magic Mountain in Ames, We as a plague in Rome, TRP in Venice) and modelling hybrid cities (Aijalaranta in Jyväskylä, or Hhouse in Balearic Islands). Díaz Moreno and García Grinda, both architects, teach at the Architectural Asoociation, London, as Diploma Unit Masters where they develop “Third Natures”.

Recent projects include the Diagonal 80 building in San Augustín del Guadalix, Madrid, Golden Balloon for MOT Tokyo and Giner de los Ríos Foundation, Madrid.

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