The project of the Museum of the Royal Collections of Madrid, by the architects Emilio Tuñón Álvarez and Luis Moreno Mansilla, has been the winner of the FAD Architecture Award 2017, as it has been reported today by the ArquinFAD of the Promotion of Arts and Design association, who grants the award.
The jury, that met yesterday, has decided to award the following prizes:
Architecture, FAD Award 2017.- Museum of the Royal Collections by Emilio Tuñón Álvarez + Luis Moreno Mansilla.
The jury has especially appreciated that the project of Emilio Tuñón and Luis Moreno Mansilla is capable of "elegantly solve a multiple condition: to provide a space dedicated to the exhibition of large works of the Royal Collections, to involve the present in the historical series Of enlargements of the Royal Palace, and to construct a basement of urban scale under the city of Madrid seen from its southwest access."
With the completion of the project, an 18-year stage of complex construction was closed, and starts the last stage to transform the Museum of Royal Collections into the main instrument for the diffusion of the cultural ensemble of the National Heritage.
The jury, that met yesterday, has decided to award the following prizes:
Architecture, FAD Award 2017.- Museum of the Royal Collections by Emilio Tuñón Álvarez + Luis Moreno Mansilla.
The jury has especially appreciated that the project of Emilio Tuñón and Luis Moreno Mansilla is capable of "elegantly solve a multiple condition: to provide a space dedicated to the exhibition of large works of the Royal Collections, to involve the present in the historical series Of enlargements of the Royal Palace, and to construct a basement of urban scale under the city of Madrid seen from its southwest access."
With the completion of the project, an 18-year stage of complex construction was closed, and starts the last stage to transform the Museum of Royal Collections into the main instrument for the diffusion of the cultural ensemble of the National Heritage.
It is a building of 40,000 m² distributed in a total of 14 floors (7 on the facade of the Campo del Moro and 14 on the east façade, next to the Cathedral) that houses exhibition halls of 103 meters long and 16 meters width with heights varying from 6 to 8 meters, six department stores, art reception rooms, reception areas to the public, offices, as well as spaces for technical rooms and facilities.
Parallel to the procedures of the competition they were made archaeological surveys in the area that would be occupied by the Museum. Considering the archaeological remains found and the peculiarities of the terrain where the Museum would be constructed - a 26 meter uneven ground in the cornice of Madrid immediately to the Cathedral of the Almudena - it was decided to execute the works in four phases.
The total amount of the project has finally reached 139.7 million euros, with a saving of 18.9 million euros compared to the initial project. The final cost of the complete project (work and museography, complete equipment warehouses and public areas, restoration campaign and transfer of works of art) is estimated at 171.5 million euros, with a decrease of at least 29.2 million euros in relation to the originally planned cost.
Parallel to the procedures of the competition they were made archaeological surveys in the area that would be occupied by the Museum. Considering the archaeological remains found and the peculiarities of the terrain where the Museum would be constructed - a 26 meter uneven ground in the cornice of Madrid immediately to the Cathedral of the Almudena - it was decided to execute the works in four phases.
The total amount of the project has finally reached 139.7 million euros, with a saving of 18.9 million euros compared to the initial project. The final cost of the complete project (work and museography, complete equipment warehouses and public areas, restoration campaign and transfer of works of art) is estimated at 171.5 million euros, with a decrease of at least 29.2 million euros in relation to the originally planned cost.
Interior Design FAD Award 2017.- Pontejos 9 by aceboXalonso (Victoria Acebo, Angel Alonso)
Rating of the jury:
“Because of its integration both the material plane and the intangible memory of the city into a project of creative archeology.
PONTEJOS 9 is a comprehensive rehabilitation that works both on the material plane and in the intangible dimension of the memory of Madrid. It assumes as a design process a kind of creative archeology that reassigns value to found objects and fixes them in the place, in such a way that it builds a new support for a material history of the neighborhood recreated by the authors. It goes beyond the mere incorporation of an old housing building into the real estate market: it offers an alternative practice that overcome the imaginary of budgetary pragmatics and claims the value of culture as an interpreter of what exists."
PONTEJOS 9 is a comprehensive rehabilitation that works both on the material plane and in the intangible dimension of the memory of Madrid. It assumes as a design process a kind of creative archeology that reassigns value to found objects and fixes them in the place, in such a way that it builds a new support for a material history of the neighborhood recreated by the authors. It goes beyond the mere incorporation of an old housing building into the real estate market: it offers an alternative practice that overcome the imaginary of budgetary pragmatics and claims the value of culture as an interpreter of what exists."
City and Landscape, FAD Award 2017.- Rehabilitation of Joan Oliver Park in Badia del Valles by Claudi Aguiló i Aran + Albert Domingo i Ollé
Rating of the jury:
“Because of the exemplary way of solving a park that does not impose use hierarchies and because of its intent to do an invisible intervention that enhances the environmental cycle
It is estimated that the main intervention on this existing park is underground, that is to say, it is not seen, although it solves the constant floods that the space suffered before its rehabilitation. In this way, the trees are preserved intact and naturally arranged on the continuous surface of land, which allows a multi-functional space for the inhabitants."
It is estimated that the main intervention on this existing park is underground, that is to say, it is not seen, although it solves the constant floods that the space suffered before its rehabilitation. In this way, the trees are preserved intact and naturally arranged on the continuous surface of land, which allows a multi-functional space for the inhabitants."
Ephemeral Interventions, FAD Award 2017.- Commemorative columns of the 30th anniversary of the reconstruction of the German pavilion in Barcelona by Luis Martínez Santa-Mana + Roger Sauquetllonch
Rating of the jury:
“The project rebuild and dignify with recycled materials one of the basic elements of architecture, achieving a rich dialogue of opposites
The hundred drums of sheet steel, collected in a cemetery of chemical waste, acquire a second life, of greater dignity and beauty being recycled as drums of these new columns that remember those that one day were the icon of Modern architecture. The drums, vertically joined together by a simple weld bead, together with their colorful and at the same time dull and rusty finish, transform their meaning, between conceptual art and architectural installation. Facing the horizontality of the Barcelona pavilion, reconnects with the essence of these primordial elements of architecture: the podium and column, the slab and screen, noble matter and recycled material, all in dialogue.’’
The hundred drums of sheet steel, collected in a cemetery of chemical waste, acquire a second life, of greater dignity and beauty being recycled as drums of these new columns that remember those that one day were the icon of Modern architecture. The drums, vertically joined together by a simple weld bead, together with their colorful and at the same time dull and rusty finish, transform their meaning, between conceptual art and architectural installation. Facing the horizontality of the Barcelona pavilion, reconnects with the essence of these primordial elements of architecture: the podium and column, the slab and screen, noble matter and recycled material, all in dialogue.’’
The FAD International Awards are celebrating their fourth edition. This award rewards the architectural proposals projected from Spain and Portugal to be located anywhere in the world. This call welcomes projects completed between 2014 and 2016 with the intention of covering a large number of works.
The jury of the FAD International Awards, formed by Johan Celsing (president) and Eugeni Bach and Maria González as members, has decided to award the following prize:
International, FAD Award 2017.- Jardín Niel by Miquel Batlle + Michele Orliac.
Rating of the jury:
"This project brings together a multiplicity of virtues in a perfectly balanced result between work and time, the use of industrialized systems according to scale, and the incorporation of the characteristic agricultural landscape of the area.
The topography that defines the project strategy not only manages to sequence different spatial experiences in a large space, but also acts as support of the different routes, as protection of the existing archaeological remains and as a support of the different types of vegetation.
Two materials articulate the whole intervention. The brick, so characteristic of the city, is ingeniously used with a system that combines the constructive efficiency with the capacity to dilute the limits with the topography. And the steel, used in a punctual way, helps to maintain a chromatic homogeneity that yields all the protagonism to the natural elements.
A project that makes everything seem easy and obvious, with an intelligent intervention where topography, vegetation, circulations, water use, furniture and materiality merge into a single intervention, as simple as accurate."
The topography that defines the project strategy not only manages to sequence different spatial experiences in a large space, but also acts as support of the different routes, as protection of the existing archaeological remains and as a support of the different types of vegetation.
Two materials articulate the whole intervention. The brick, so characteristic of the city, is ingeniously used with a system that combines the constructive efficiency with the capacity to dilute the limits with the topography. And the steel, used in a punctual way, helps to maintain a chromatic homogeneity that yields all the protagonism to the natural elements.
A project that makes everything seem easy and obvious, with an intelligent intervention where topography, vegetation, circulations, water use, furniture and materiality merge into a single intervention, as simple as accurate."
The architect Belén Moneo has chaired the jury of the FAD Awards for Architecture and Interiorism, with other the members like Judit Bustos, Ricardo Devesa, Jorge Figueira, Maria Langarita and Joan Olona. During the previous months, this jury has travel along the Iberian geography in order to visit the works that could be awarded. One of the unique characteristics of the FAD Awards of Architecture is precisely that the jury visits all works that have possibilities to win.
