Tuning the senses. Music School by Manuel Collado
23/09/2019.
5th edition of Open House Madrid 2019 [MAD] Spain 28.09>29.09.2019
metalocus, CARLOS MOMBIELA
metalocus, CARLOS MOMBIELA
On the occasion of the 5th edition of the Open House Madrid festival, which will take place between 28 and 29 September, from METALOCUS we want to introduce you to the new Music School with an impressive interior design remodelation by Manuel Collado of Manholo studio.
Located in the Salamanca neighborhood in Madrid, this project manages to create an atmosphere where a new form of group learning can be implemented.
Located in the Salamanca neighborhood in Madrid, this project manages to create an atmosphere where a new form of group learning can be implemented.
Music School by Manuel Collado. Photograph by Manuel Collado.
Music School by Manuel Collado. Photograph by Manuel Collado.
Music School by Manuel Collado. Photograph by Manuel Collado.
Music School by Manuel Collado. Photograph by Manuel Collado.
Music School by Manuel Collado. Photograph by Manuel Collado.
Music School by Manuel Collado. Photograph by Manuel Collado.
Music School by Manuel Collado. Photograph by Manuel Collado.
Music School by Manuel Collado. Photograph by Manuel Collado.
Music School by Manuel Collado. Photograph by Manuel Collado.
Music School by Manuel Collado. Photograph by Manuel Collado.
Music School by Manuel Collado. Photograph by Manuel Collado.
Music School by Manuel Collado. Photograph by Manuel Collado.
Music School by Manuel Collado. Photograph by Manuel Collado.
Music School by Manuel Collado. Photograph by Manuel Collado.
Music School by Manuel Collado. Photograph by Manuel Collado.
Music School by Manuel Collado. Photograph by Manuel Collado.
Music School by Manuel Collado. Photograph by Manuel Collado.
Music School by Manuel Collado. Photograph by Manuel Collado.
Music School by Manuel Collado. Photograph by Manuel Collado.
Axonometric. Music School by Manuel Collado.
Ground and basement floor plan. Music School by Manuel Collado.
Floor plan level -2 and section. Music School by Manuel Collado.
Rendering. Music School by Manuel Collado.
Music School by Manuel Collado. Photograph by Manuel Collado.
Music School by Manuel Collado. Photograph by Manuel Collado.
The project for the Music School by Manuel Collado comes from a complex conversation about the processes of musical learning. The key concepts to which this new space responds are: arouse musical curiosity and discovery, the circle of collective practice and community, awareness of space and body and sustainability.
On the ground floor and basement there is a great need to provide adequate light for your activity. This luminosity operates with the combination of materials and color, mainly white, red and blue. This polarity of tones energizes or calms the senses depending on the activity and location of the spaces.
The use of the circle figure works as constant in the project, it functions as a symbol of the community united in musical practice and it represents the idea of circular learning that this school wants to implement.
On the ground floor and basement there is a great need to provide adequate light for your activity. This luminosity operates with the combination of materials and color, mainly white, red and blue. This polarity of tones energizes or calms the senses depending on the activity and location of the spaces.
The use of the circle figure works as constant in the project, it functions as a symbol of the community united in musical practice and it represents the idea of circular learning that this school wants to implement.
Description of project by Manuel Collado
The project for the Music School stems from a great conversation around the processes of musical learning. As a result of this symbiosis, key concepts emerged to which the architecture of the new space should respond: arouse musical curiosity / discover, the circle of collective practice and community, awareness of space and body and sustainability.
These concepts are developed using the following tools:
Light and color
Undoubtedly, the first key element in the conditioning of a room on the ground floor and basement is to provide it with suitable light qualities for the activity. We have sought to obtain as much natural light as possible inside, always negotiating with the requirement of acoustic isolation of music classrooms, to achieve this a circle of 2 m in diameter has been opened in the classroom “Water” of the entrance to that enters light in depth on the distributor spaces. A periscope element has been introduced on the “Earth” classroom of the mezzanine to connect interior and exterior lighting.
Energy
We have worked with energy in an innovative way at different levels; directly with a responsible management of the demand through the design of the installation and the type of contract. Afterwards, work has been done on the harmonization of more subtle energy patterns, combining materials and color, where the energies of the wood and the immersive blue tones of the classrooms are balanced with the fluid and dynamic energy of the common areas through red floors collective carpet mode. This polarity of tones energizes or calms depending on the activity. Environmental Intelligence is completed through a space-conscious organization following a distribution based on the I Ching and the five elements.
Music and geometry
The circle has been a constant in the idea of musical learning and works as a unifying geometry at different levels. First as a symbol of community in musical practice, transmitting the type of group musical interactions of this school. Second as an archetypal geometric symbol of the unit, where through its repetition at different scales, from lighting to openings of holes, it organizes a spatial form of musical composition. The environmental harmony is completed by the triangle that appears in the treatment of the baseboards and the square / rectangle of the classroom shapes. These three geometries are considered foundational in all traditions of environmental knowledge.
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Architects
Design team
Miguel Lantero, Ana P. Moriyón, Thais Loira, Marta García.
Collaborators
Colored lamps.- petlamp.org. Partition walls.- Knauff.
Soils.- Tarkett Toilets.- Roca. Acousric doors.- Teminsa.
Client
Area
200,00 m²
Dates
2018
Venue
C/ Padilla 88, Madrid, Spain.
Photography
Manuel Collado Arpia
Manholo, Manuel Collado
Manuel Collado Arpia is PhD architect, founder of the Madrid based architectural offices: Manholo 2017, Mi5 architects 1999-2015 and its virtual sister Mi5VR 2014-2015. He founded in 2017 the Manholo design firm to combine his project experience with his continuous holistic research on alternative forms of energy that improve our integration into the spaces we inhabit. Unit Master at the Architectural Association in London 2011-2018, teaching regularly at the UAH Public School of Architecture in Madrid and also recently at the Master Program of Digital Arts and Experience Design at the IED (Madrid). He has won and built several competitions like:
• Annual Architectural Design Award and Annual Outstanding Designer Award of the 8th. 2010 Modern Decoration International Media Prize. Schenzen China.
• Nominated for the 2013 Mies Van Rohe Award Europe
• First Prize: Competition “80 social housing in San FranciscoJavier II” Madrid 1999.
• First Prize exaequo: Competition “Planning and developement Calpe´s seafront”. Calpe 1999.
• First Prize: Competition “Planning and developement of the Playa del Inglés seafront”. Gran Canaria.
• Nominated for the 2013 Mies Van Rohe Award Europe
• First Prize: Competition “80 social housing in San FranciscoJavier II” Madrid 1999.
• First Prize exaequo: Competition “Planning and developement Calpe´s seafront”. Calpe 1999.
• First Prize: Competition “Planning and developement of the Playa del Inglés seafront”. Gran Canaria.
His work has been published in a wide range of media such as Dezeen, ArchDaily, Icon, Domus, Arquitectura Viva, Bauwelt, Mark, El País, etc. Since 2003 he has taught at various public and private institutions, including Architectural Polytechnic Universities as UAH Madrid, UA Alicante, UCJC Madrid, the AA Summer School. He has also participated in several juries, lectures and exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale, RIBA London, Architectural Association, IVAM Valencia and GD-NYU, Korean Institute of Architects, IAAC Barcelona etc; and he has been selected recently for the Off Biennale in Venice, as one of the global practices offering new alternatives to a self referential architecture. He obtained his PhD at ETSAM Madrid in 2013 with a thesis “From the Psychedelia to the Curtains of XXI Century”. Since 2000 deeply engaged with diverse holistic practices, like Aikido as an instructor, Katsuguen Undo, Zinheng Qigong and meditation.
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