Unfinished. Spanish Pavilion of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2016

Tomorrow is the opening of Spanish Pavilion at the Giardini di Venezia. Under the title “Unfinished”, the exhibition in the Spanish pavilion consists, among others, of nearly 67 proposals and 7 photographic series, among others, presenting answers to the problems arising in Spain after the housing boom post crisis.

Re-edificatoria by Adrià Goula. Unfinished Exhibition. Spanish Pavilion of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2016. Image © Adrià Goula.

The proposal of the Spanish pavilion, curated by architects Iñaqui Carnicero and Carlos Quintáns, try to responds to the mission statement of the Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena, the curator of the 15. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura – La Biennale di Venezia, who aims to present a combative and decisive architecture that managed to solve the major challenges the world is facing today.

The projects selected by the Spanish Pavilion for the exhibition are grouped with concepts such as reassignment, adaptability or reappropriation, among others, offering a vision of how the Spanish architects have reflected and reacted with new strategies.

"Next Sunday we will analysis in greater depth the contents and thematic of the pavilion"

The exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2016 will remain open from 26 May to 27 November 2016.

The exhibition is divided into four areas which deal about the pavilion’s theme:

7 photographic series
55 selected works
12 selected entries from the open competition
11 interviews will fill with graphic and intellectual content the Spanish pavilion

Photograpic series

The 7 photographic series will make visible a reality that could remain hidden, while evidencing processes disrupted by periods of time longer that normal or changes in the nature of work. In the same time, the series will make the visitor reflect on the outcome of this construction frenzy and the relationship it had with the financial crisis:

ARCHITECTURE AND RESISTANCE
Nicolás Combarro

SPANISH DREAM
Cadelas verdes

STANDSTILL ARCHITECTURE
Iñaki Bergera

LANDSCAPES UNDER 30: TRANSITIONAL SPACE
Miguel Fernández Galiano

LANDSCAPE UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Alfonso Batalla

RE-EDIFICATORIA
Adrià Goula

NACIÓN ROTONDA
Miguel Álvarez, Esteban García, Guillermo Trapiello, Rafael Trapiello

Selected works

The side rooms will be used to exhibit the 55 selected works out of the 550 submissions. The projects do not deal with neither scale nor with their situation but with the strategies which architects put into play as a response to the built environment as explained before. Far from being a style, the exhibition confirms that these processes and methods have resulted in new architectures which have been able to adapt to new economic, social or environmental demands and especially of transformation. These projects are catalogued in the following categories:

CONSOLIDATE

CONVENTO DE SANTA MARÍA DE LOS REYES
MGM Morales de Giles Arquitectos

RE-HABITAR
Profesores y alumnos de la escuela de arquitectura de Toledo, Universidad de Castilla- La Mancha

RESTAURACIÓN DE LA ANTIGUA IGLESIA DE CORBERA D’EBRE
Ferran Vizoso, Núria Bordas, Jordi Garriga, David Garcia

CASA INTERMEDIA
Carmen Moreno Álvarez

REAPROPIATION

FÁBRICA AZUCARERA DE SAN ISIDRO
Juan Domingo Santos

ESPACIO DE ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO
Sol 89. María González y Juanjo López de la Cruz

ESPACIO BARBERÍ EN OLOT
RCR Arquitectes

DEPÓSITO DEL REI MARTÍ
ARCHIKUBIK (Marc Chalamanch, Miquel Lacasta, Carmen Santana) – Enllaç arquitectònic Arc-Roig)

OLIVA ARTÉS
Jordi Badia (BAAS)

CASA COLLAGE EN EL CASCO ANTIGUO DE GIRONA
Bosch.Capdeferro arquitectures. Elisabet Capdeferro Pla, Ramon Bosch Pagès

CASA DEL CONDESTABLE
Fernando Tabuenca y Jesús Leache

CENTRO CULTURAL CASAL BALAGUER
Flores & Prats, Barcelona + Duch – Pizá, Palma

MUSEO DE LAS PEREGRINACIONES
Manuel Gallego Jorreto

ESCUELA DE ARQUITECTURA EN GRANADA
Víctor López Cotelo

ADAPTABLE

CINE LIDIA
Núria Salvadó y David Tapias

CASA LUZ
ARQUITECTURA-G (Jonathan Arnabat, Jordi Ayala-Bril, Aitor Fuentes, Igor Urdampilleta)

ESPAI NOU A CASA NOVA
Toni Gelabert Amengual, Néstor Montenegro Mateos (EXTUDIO)

ALL I OWN HOUSE
PKMN architecture

SUSALOON
ELII: Uriel Fogué + Eva Gil + Carlos Palacios

CASA DENTRO DE UNA CASA
Josep Ferrando

SAN JERÓNIMO 17
CUAC Arquitectura .Javier Castellano Pulido, Tomás García Píriz

FACTORÍA CULTURAL EN MATADERO MADRID
Angel Borrego Cubero

REFORMA Y ADECUACIÓN DE VIVIENDA – ESTUDIO
Maio: Guillermo López Ibáñez, Anna Puigjaner Barberá

ESTUDIO EN LA C/LACY
Sauquet Arquitectes i Associats, slp

GALERÍA DE ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO CARRERAS-MÚGICA
Estudio Herreros

NAKED

CASA OE
Fake Industries Architectural Agonism (Cristina Goberna, Urtzi Grau) + aixopluc (David Tapias)

PABELLÓN DE SAN LUCAS
FRPO Rodriguez & Oriol Arquitectos (Pablo Oriol, Fernando Rodríguez)

PISCINA EN MACEDA
trespes.arquitectos: Alberte Pérez Rodríguez, Carlos Mosquera del Palacio, Enrique Iglesias Lima

ESCUELA EN LA MILAGROSA
Pereda Pérez Arquitectos. Carlos Pereda Iglesias y Óscar Pérez Silanes

PUNTO DE INFORMACIÓN DE GLORIES
peris+toral.arquitectes : Marta Peris Eugenio , José Manuel Toral , Izaskun González

PERCHING

CASA LUDE
Grupo Aranea (Francisco Leiva Ivorra, Martín López Robles)

PABELLÓN DE VIVIENDA EXISTENTE
FLEXO ARQUITECTURA SLP (Aixa del rey garcía / Tomeu ramis frontera/ Barbara vich arrom)

CYCLOPEAN HOUSE
ENSAMBLE STUDIO, Antón García-Abril & Debora Mesa

PIER 57 INTERIM PROJECT
Jose María de Churtichaga + Cayetana de la Quadra-Salcedo

INFILL

CASA EN TEBRA, PONTEVEDRA
Guadalupe Piñera Manso y Jesus Irisarri Castro

ATRIO
Luis Moreno Mansilla. Emilio Tuñón Álvarez

SEDE DE LA DENOMINACIÓN DE ORIGEN RIBERA DEL DUERO
BAROZZI / VEIGA Fabrizio Barozzi y Alberto Veiga

DOS VIVIENDAS EN OROPESA
Ángela García de Paredes. Ignacio Pedrosa

MUSEO DE BELLAS ARTES DE ASTURIAS
Francisco Mangado

EDIFICIO PERIMETRAL Y ADECUACIÓN DEL ENTORNO DEL TEMPLO ROMANO DE DIANA
José María Sánchez García

REASSIGNMENTS

HOUSE 1014
HARQUITECTES (David Lorente, Josep Ricart, Xavier Ros, Roger Tudó)

MATADERO MADRID, NAVE 8B
Arturo Franco

NUEVO ACCESO AL CENTRO HISTÓRICO DE GIRONELLA
Carles Enrich arquitectura + urbanismo

CEMENTERIO DEL GRAO
Inés García Clariana

CAN JORDI I N‘ÀFRICA
TEd’A arquitectes (Jaume Mayol, Irene Pérez)

CASA EN GAÜSES
Anna & Eugeni Bach

HÁBITAT ALMACÉN
Ferran Grau Valldosera, Nicola Regusci, Xavier Bustos Serrat

AUZO FACTORY IRAZÁBAL-MATIKO
Suárez Santas Arquitectos. Asier Santas Torres y Luis Suárez Mansilla

GUIDES

3X1 / 3 CENTROS MUNICIPALES DE SALUD EN MADRID
Entresitio. María Hurtado de Mendoza Wahrolén. César Jiménez de Tejada Benavides José María Hurtado de Mendoza Wahrolén

80 VIVIENDAS EN SALOU
Toni Gironés

57 VIVIENDAS EN EL CAMPUS DE LA ETSAV
DATAAE + H arquitectes

PAVEMENTS

REMODELACIÓN DEL PUERTO DE MALPICA
CreuseCarrasco. Juan Creus Andrade / Covadonga Carrasco López

ENTORNO DEL MERCADO DEL BORN
Vora Arquitectura (Pere Buil y Toni Riba)

MIRADOR PEDRA DA RÁ
Carlos Seoane

TURÓ DE LA ROVIRA
Jansana, de la Villa, de Paauw arquitectes SLP, AAUP Jordi Romero associats SLP

Selected entries from the open competition

The architectural graphic display will finish with the exhibition of the results of the open competition held by the pavilion which aimed to search for unpublished projects which respond to the theme proposed. Out of the 108 submissions the jury, composed by Iñaqui Carnicero and Carlos Quintáns as curators of the exhibitions and by the pavilion’s scientific committee (Santiago de Molina, Jacobo García-Germán and Ángel Martínez García-Posada) made a first selection of 20 projects.

Out of these finalists, the jury chose 8 winners and 4 mentions that will not only be part of the exhibition but whose authors will explain their projects in public as part of the pavilion’s activities.

WINNERS

- ARQUINAUTAS DE LA COSMOPISTA
Víctor Manuel Cano Ciborro, Alejandro Burgueño Diaz, José Manuel de Andrés Moncayo, Ana Sabugo Sierra, José Javier Cullen Afonso y Rocío Romero Rivas
- BISAGRAS
Diego Lucio Barral y Sarai Cancela Cundíns
- EL CUENTO DE LA ARQUITECTURA Y LOS REFUGIADOS
OOIIO, Joaquín Millán Villamuelas
- EL PATIO TRAS EL INCENDIO
Juan Antonio Serrano García y Paloma Baquero Masats
- INTERVENCIÓN EN UNA RUINA DE LA ALHAMBRA
Alejandro Infantes Pérez
- LA CADENA DE CRISTAL
Jesús Vasallo, Andrea Gimeno, Lluís Juan Liñán, Josep Vicent Lluch, Mayte Gómez, Marta Jarabo, Sálvora Feliz, Ángel Gallego, José Mato, Patricia Ocaña, Beatriz Martínez, Quique Bayarri, Felipe Reyno y Tomás Pineda
- LA RUTA MÁS ASTUTA
Leire Calvillo Mendoza y Ramón Cuesta González de la Aleja
- RECYCLING ALMAR
Juan Moreno Romero, Siddartha Rodrigo Clua y Francesco Miele

MENTIONS

- ECOTECHNOHUB
Diego García Setién y Silvia Sánchez González
- PAISAJES EN RUINA. RUINA MODERNA
Gádor Potenciano Enciso
- TIPOLOGÍAS DESPLAZADAS
Pablo Blazquez Jesús
- UNITED TERRITORIES OF FAILAND
Lucía Andreu Gómez, Ramón Cuesta González-De la Aleja y Clara González Fernández

Interviews

Last, but not least, in the last space of the pavilion behind the central space and between the side spaces, a continuous projection will show the interviews about ‘Unfinished’ as well as about Spanish architecture. These short interviews will share with the visitor thoughts and reflections from the following renowned personalities:

AMALE ANDRAOS, Dean at Columbia University
KENNETH FRAMPTON, Full Professor at Columbia University
SARAH WHITING, Dean at Rice University
ANDREA SIMITCH, Associate Professor at Cornell University
SOU FUJIMOTO, Architect
BARRY BERGDOL, Ex main curator MoMA
VAL WARKE, Associate Professor at Cornell University
JORGE SILVETTI, Full Professor at Harvard GSD
NADER TEHRANI, Dean of Cooper Union
MEIJEEN YOON, Chair MIT
MARTINO STIERLI, Chef Curator MoMA

The pavilion also organizes various activities taking place during the Biennale: conferences, workshops for students of architecture, discussions, debates and presentations will be held inside and outside the pavilion.

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Spanish dream. Unfinished Exhibition. Spanish Pavilion of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2016. Image © Adrià Goula.

Image book "Arquitectura y Resistencia" by Nicolás Combarro. Spanish Pavilion of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2016. Image © Nicolás Combarro.

Landscape under construction by Alfonso Batalla. Spanish Pavilion of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2016. Image © Alfonso Batalla.

Access to the center of Gironella by Carles Enrich. Spanish Pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2016. Image © Adrià Goula.

Two homes in Oropesa by Paredes Pedrosa Architects. Spanish Pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2016. Image © Luis Asín.

Turó de la Rovira. Spanish Pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2016. Image © Lourdes Jansana.

Performance in Ribera del Duero by Barozzi Veiga. Spanish Pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2016. Image © Mariela Apollonio.

Intervention at the Oliva Artés factory by BAAS Arquitectura. Spanish Pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2016. Image © Marcela Grassi.

Rehabilitation of the church of Corbera d'Ebre by Ferran Vizoso. Spanish pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2016. Image courtesy of Pati Núñez Agency.

Warehouse Rei Martí by ARCHIKUBIK. Spanish Pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2016. Image © Adrià Goula.

Can Jordi i n'Àfrica by TEd'A arquitectes. Spanish Pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2016. Image © TEd'A arquitectes.

Studio on Lacy Street by Sauquet Arquitectes i Ass. Spanish pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2016. Image courtesy of Pati Núñez Agency.

House 1014 by H Arquitectes. Spanish Pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2016. Image © Adrià Goula.

80 homes in Salou by Toni Girones. Spanish pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2016. Image © José Hevia.

House in Gaüses by A & EB. Spanish Pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2016. Image © Jordi Bernadó.

Maceda pool by three architects. Spanish Pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2016. Image © trespes arquitectos.

Museum of the Pilgrimage by Manolo Gallego. Spanish Pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2016. Image © Manuel González Vicente.

Auzo Factory Irázabal-Matiko by Suárez Santas Arq. Spanish Pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2016. Image © Luis Asín.

La Milagrosa Children's School by Pereda Pérez Arquitectos. Spanish Pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2016. Image © Pedro Pegenaute.

Casa Lux for Architecture G. Spanish Pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2016. Image courtesy of Pati Núñez Agency.

Contemporary Art Gallery Carreras Múgica by Estudio Herreros. Spanish Pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2016. Image © Adrià Goula.

Cine Lidia by David Tapias. Spanish pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2016. Image courtesy of Pati Núñez Agency.

Casa Collage by BoschCapdeferro. Spanish pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2016. Image courtesy of Pati Núñez Agency.

Contemporary art space by Sol 89. Spanish pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2016. Image courtesy of Pati Núñez Agency.

Matadero Madrid. Spanish pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2016. Image courtesy of Pati Núñez Agency.

El patio tras el incendio by SERRANO+BAQUERO. Spanish pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2016. Image courtesy of Pati Núñez Agency.

Re-edificatoria by Adrià Goula. Unfinished. Spanish pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2016. Image courtesy of Pati Núñez Agency.

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Spanish Pavilion, Giardini, Venice, Italy.

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from 26 May to 27 November 2016.

IÑAQUI CARNICERO

Iñaqui Carnicero. 1973 Born in Madrid, Spain.
1998 Bsc. Architecture, School of Polytechnic University of Madrid.
2000-2011 Associate Professor of Design at the Architecture School of Polytechnic University of Madrid.
2000 Invited Bienal of Venice.
2002 Honorable Mention Luigi Cosenza Prize.
2003 Honorable Mention C.O.A.M. awards.
2008 JAE exhibition. young Spanish Architects.
2008 Scholarship by the Royal Spanish Academy of the Fine Arts for research in Rome.
 2009 Final stage Architectural Digest awards.
2010 Selected BSI University of Mendrisio awards  .
2010 Final Stage FAD Spanish Awards.
2011 Design Vanguard Award 2011. Architectural Record.
2011 Emerging Architecture Awards. Architectural Review.
2011 First prize Hauser award 2012.
2011 Current Doctoral Thesis : “Louis Kahn vs Robert Venturi: Learning from the scale of Rome”.

Carlos QUINTÁNS

CARLOS QUINTÁNS has continuously developed throughout his career the fields of teaching, research, dissemination and construction. He has been Professor of Construction at the School of Architecture of A Coruña. Quintáns was part of the Quintáns-Raya-Crespo practice until 2002 and since 1996 he co-directs the Tectónica magazine with José María Marzo and Berta Blasco . He also edited the numbers 33 and 34 of the Obradoiro magazine with Carlos Pita. Quintáns also works as coordinator of the Enor prize. In addition, in 2011 he coordinated with Javier Fernández Muñoz the project of A Cidade Intuida.