Description of the project by Atxu Amann, Andrés Cánovas, Nicolás Maruri y Adelino Magalhaes
A water tank is a technical problem, strictly technical?
Resolved technology, understand the project as a building in one place. This is a problem related to the context and implementation. A forest is a delicate place, many trees we have, are always few.
A construction of this kind develops an impact that is necessary cushion, the building could dissolve, blend, as far as possible, between the mass of trees, be a tree deeper into the forest and the animals and plants so they understand .
The building is then projected an approach to nature, from its fragmentation, its multiplicity, its color and textures. But also from its ability to change and transformation from aging as a natural part of your life. Perhaps this could be a building that calls natures, but also teaches that it is possible to live without subtracting the natural beauty practically nothing; and that architecture has its heart to complement the environment, to fold if necessary, this proposal has to respect.
This is definitely an architecture that assumes the risk of coexistence and make it his own.
This project is definitely a landscape.
Stunned by the visual impact of a single deposit, we opted for a solution that raises two deposits that are fragmented in their coatings to provide a light and aerial image. Shells and their shanks adjusted structurally different skins are coated wooden offering a dynamic and vivid image, moving in rhythm with the natural whole. These skins assume the habitats of different species of birds that colonize the proposal and also assume the existence of a certain level of vegetation. The proposal is therefore a possibility that nature continue doing their job of coexistence. It is a hotbed of biodiversity.
The commitment to the use of wood symbolizes the context of the place, but also declares commitment to sustainability and development of industries and handcrafts. It is a proposal that belongs to us.
There is more to comment on the technique, known and amply developed, neatly resolved by engineers, simply the spirit to serve not ravage nature but complementing it.
Amann, Cánovas, Maruri, architecture firm established by: Atxu Amann Alcocer, Andrés Cánovas Alcaraz and Nicolás Maruri Mendoza.
Atxu Amann Alcocer. Madrid 1961. Architect by the ETSA of Madrid. Doctorate from ETSAM with outstanding Cum Llaude, 2007. Urban Planning Technician from the Urban Studies Center of I.E.A.L. (M.A.P.) Scholar of the Technische Hoschule of Darmstadt (Germany) in CAAD. Director of the magazine Arquitectos. Director of the Postgraduate courses in Editorial Design for the European Social Fund. Professor in the postgraduate courses of Editorial Graphic Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Madrid. Professor of the Department of Architectural Graphic Ideation of ETSAM
Andrés Cánovas Alcaraz. Cartagena 1958. Architect by the School of Architecture of Madrid. Prometheus Scholarship at Tecniche Hoschule. Darmstatd. Germany. Director of the "Monographs of Architects" Collection. Director of the "Monographs of Buildings" Collection, Director of the "Crítica de Arquitectura" Collection, Director and editor of the magazine Arquitectos, 1987-2006, Professor of the CSDM of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Faculty of Fine Arts of the Complutense University, European Design Institute, Coordinator of several postgraduate courses in Graphic Design Editorial in the Faculty of Fine Arts, the European Institute of Design and the European Social Fund. Faculty of Fine Arts, UCM, Professor of the Master of Aesthetics and Theory of Arts of the Autonomous University, Professor of Design Master of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Salamanca, Professor of the Master of Intervention in the Heritage of the ETSAM Professor of the Tourism Master of the UPC of Barcelona.
He has been secretary of the Final Project Project Tribunal at ESTAM. UPM. Deputy Director of the Spanish Architecture Biennial. Director of the Summer Course at the University of Almería. Visiting Professor at the Universities of Salamanca, San Sebastián, La Coruña, Seville, Navarra, Valencia, Polytechnic of Cartagena, SEK of Segovia, Alfonso X, Advanced Architecture Institute of Barcelona, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, London AA, Montpellier, Rome Tre , Calgliari, Toulouse, Javeriana from Bogotá, Chicago IIT and Arizona CAPLA. He is a professor of Projects of the ETSAM Academic Coordinator of the MCH of the ETSAM. UPM and Director of the Projects area. Professor of the subject "Sociology of Housing".
Nicolás Maruri Mendoza. Madrid 1961. Architect by the School of Architecture of Madrid. Doctorate from ETSAM with outstanding Cum Llaude, 2007. Prometheus Scholarship at Tecniche Hoschule Darmstatd. Germany. Master's Degree in Building from Columbia University. NY. He is a professor in the Projects Department of ETSAM. He has been: Secretary of the Court of the ETSAM End-of-Degree Project and Visiting Professor at the University of Arizona. He has given conferences in London AA, San Sebastian, SEK of Segovia.
