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Slideshow: Spanish studio Langarita-Navarro Arquitectos filled a Madrid warehouse with makeshift huts and a wilderness of plants to accommodate a nomadic music academy organised by drinks brand Red Bull.

The temporary habitat was installed in the autumn to provide individual music studios for the use of 60 artists, as well as staff offices, a lounge and lecture hall and a recording studio.

Piled up sandbags created the soundproofed structure for the recording studio, while each music studio and office was housed inside a gabled wooden hut.

Sandbag walls also surrounded the bulbous lounge and lecture hall, while faceted ceilings overhead displayed stripy monochrome patterns.

Above: photograph is by Miguel de Guzman

Once the festival was over the structures were dismantled without a trace and the shrubbery was replanted around the city, leaving the warehouse intact.

It wasn’t long ago we revealed images of Red Bull’s new Amsterdam headquarters – see them here.

Above: photograph is by Miguel de Guzman

Photography is by Luis Diaz Diaz, apart from where otherwise stated.

Above: photograph is by Miguel de Guzman

Here’s some more information from Langarita-Navarro Arquitectos:

Red Bull Music Academy
Nave de la Música en Matadero Madrid

In many ways this project shares the logic of a Russian matryoshka doll. Not only in the most literal, physical sense, in which one thing is directly incorporated into another, but also in a temporal sense, in which one actually originates within the other. The initial circumstances of this project established a favorable backdrop for this condition:

Above: photograph is by Miguel de Guzman

An emergency project. The Red Bull Music Academy Madrid 2011:

The Red Bull Music Academy (RBMA) is a nomadic annual music festival. For the last 14 years, this event has been held in a different world city, welcoming the sixty pre-selected international participants and surrounding them with musicians, producers, and DJs, thereby giving them the opportunity to experiment with and exchange knowledge and ideas about the world of music.

Above: photograph is by Miguel de Guzman

The 2011 edition of RBMA was going to be held in Tokyo, but given the devastating effects of the earthquake, the location had to be changed. With only five months to plan, the city of Madrid took over. The creative space known as Matadero Madrid, which is located in an early 20th century industrial warehouse complex, was designated as the event’s new location.

Above: photograph is by Miguel de Guzman

A medium-term project, The Nave de Música in Matadero Madrid

The RBMA launched the programming for the new Nave de Música (music warehouse), a space specifically dedicated to audio creation and research. Using the existing installation as a starting point and given its experimental character, the construction project was approached as a temporary structure based on the criteria of adaptability and reversibility that would make it easy to completely or partially reconfigure over time.

Above: photograph is by LNA

Under these circumstances and in an emergency situation, the work began on an infrastructure capable of meeting the precise technical and acoustic needs of the event, in addition to accelerating, promoting and enriching a series of extremely intense artistic encounters that would take place between the participating musicians, while at the same time adding an environment that would record and archive everything taking place.

Above: photograph is by Miguel de Guzman

The proposal was developed based on five guidelines:

1. Deadlines and budget. The design had to specifically comply with some very tight deadlines and budgetary concerns. The construction had to be completed in less than two months, implementing solutions that would require only light construction and seeking a balance between standardization and adaptability.

2. Regarding the warehouse. Warehouse 15 of the Matadero is an open space comprised of a metallic structure with a brick facade. This structure, which measures about 4,700 m2, opens directly to the outside. One of the criteria taken into account for this project was that of not modifying the warehouse itself, but rather leaving it exactly as it was before the intervention.

3. Program requirements. The program’s organization clearly establishes a specific configuration that is grouped into four areas: offices, studios for musicians, recording studios and an area used for conferences, radio and as a lounge. The chosen spatial and constructive systems would allow for the reconfiguration of these spaces for future events.

4. Acoustics. The event’s acoustic requirements determined its geometry, as well as the choice of materials and constructive solutions. Each of the areas acquired a specific logic that corresponded with its usage, thereby making it possible to uniquely resolve its acoustic needs. Some heterogeneous solutions included the massive walls in the recording studios, the absorbent surfaces of the cloth domes in the conference room and the structural and geometric independence of the nonparallel pavilions.

5. Temporariness. Given the temporary nature of this project and in order to avoid influencing future interventions in the warehouse, it was designed to be dismantled in such a way so as to not leave a trace. Even the “heaviest” actions were designed to be reversible and to allow for their easy recycling for future events. Examples of this included the use of sandbags to make up the walls of the recording studios and potted plants that could later be transplanted in other areas of the Matadero or the city.

As a result, the project unfolded in the warehouse’s interior in the form of a fragmented urban structure in which the variable relationship between proximity and independence, and preexistence and performance could offer unexpected stages to its community of inhabitants.

Architects: Langarita-Navarro Arquitectos, María Langarita y Víctor Navarro
Collaborators: Juan Palencia, Gonzalo Gutierrez, Tonia Papanikolau, Paula García-Masedo
Surveyor: Javier Reñones
Landscape: Jerónimo Hagerman
Mechanicals: Úrculo ingenieros
Acoustics: Imar Sanmartí Acousthink S.L.
Structures: Mecanismo S.L.
Light structures: Arquiges y Cuatro50
Ending date: 2011

Ribbons of mesh spiral around two conical bridges by French architect Dominique Perrault that cross a river and park in Madrid.

One part of the 278-metre-long footbridge crosses the Manzaranes River, whilst the second bridges the Arganzuela Park, beneath which the city ring road is buried.

The two steel-framed cones meet at the peak of a hill inside the park but are separated by a snaking footpath.

The footbridge connects two residential neighbourhoods and provides a route for both pedestrians and cyclists.

Lights hanging from the branches of tree-like lamp posts illuminate the bridge after dark.

Above: photograph is © Ayuntamiento de Madrid

The Pasarela del Arganzuela opened to the public in April, as did the park designed by landscape architects West 8 and other architects.

Above: photograph is by Gaelle Lauriot Prevost

Other pedestrian footbridges in Spain recently published on Dezeen include a looping bridge over a busy road and a bridge connected to an outdoor elevator – see all our stories about bridges here.

Above: photograph is © Ayuntamiento de Madrid

Photography is by Arteuno, apart from where otherwise stated.

Here are some more details from Perrault:

The Arganzuela footbridge, designed by Dominique Perrault in the very heart of Madrid.

Forming a major element in the new urban strategy for the city named “Madrid Rio”, the Arganzuela Footbridge, first civil engineering work by the architect, is already called “the jewel of the Rio” by the residents.

In the 1970’s, the M30 ring road, running along the both edges of the river Manzaranes, was an important boundary in the urban network of the city. In 2000, the City Council of Madrid launched a major project for the urban redevelopment of the Manzaranes banks: Madrid Rio.

To begin with, the city council hid the M30 highway, burying it 25 metres below the river the banks.

In 2005, the disappearance of the ring road allowed for an international urban planning competition for the redevelopment of the Manzaranes banks. This competition, won by the group of architects M-RIO, offered a new territory to the inhabitants:the Arganzuela Park. This future 23 hectare park, to be inaugurated in April, will become a substantial urban mesh of the city.

In parallel with its realisation, the city council appointed Dominique Perrault to construct a footbridge over the Manzaranes river, creating a link between the two banks.

Here, Dominique Perrault has created an original and technical architectural icon for this new territory.Over 250 meters long, the Arganzuela footbridge is located between the historic Toledo bridge and the Praga bridge which leads to the cultural centre of the capital. It links the Arganzuela and Carabanchel neighbourhoods.

Designed for pedestrians and cyclists, the footbridge consists of two metallic cones. It allows the passage of people from one side of the park to the other while also providing one of a the main entrances to the park below. The park, which hides some of the buried highway’s technical infrastructures, has an irregular topography. Playing with that topography, the two cones join above the curve of a hill, and are offset to create a new entrance point to the park.

The first cone – to the south – spans from the Avenida de Manzaranes, crosses over the river and then joins the top of the hill.

Placed offset to the first cone, the second cone – to the north–passes over the other side of the park to reach the Paseo de Yeserias. This positioning creates a platform over the park and the surrounding city, and an exceptional vantage point from which to admire the famous Toledo Bridge.

The footbridge is impressive in its dimensions. The south cone is 150 metres long and the north cone is 128 metres long,and their diameter varies from 5 to 12 metres from one end to the other.Each cone rests upon two pillars laid at each end, giving the impression that the footbridge is floating in the air.Made in steel, the self supporting main structure has two interlocking metal spirals that cross diagonally. A silver ribbon,made of metallic mesh, wraps this structure and protects the users from the sun and the bad weather. “Sewn” like a spiral,this ribbon creates a rhythmic and dynamic line to the Arganzuela Park.

The metallic mesh, favoured material of the architect, transforms and changes the footbridge depending on the time of the day: it alternates between filtering, reflective and opaque. Shaded during the day, the promenade becomes luminous at night, like a lantern. It’s impossible to capture all those visual possibilities in one single glimpse, as the metallic mesh turns the footbridge into a living object.

Above: photograph is by Gaelle Lauriot Prevost

Located in a strategic point of the city, the footbridge improves the urban connections between the northern and southern neighbourhoods of Madrid. By taking advantage of the site’s drawbacks, Dominique Perrault creates a new place for gathering,resting and admiring the city. For the city council, the Arganzuela footbridge is becoming an architectural event for the city and a powerful urban landmark.

Client: Madrid City Council, Madrid, Spain
Engineering: MC2 / Julio Martínez Calzón, Madrid (stucture); TYPSA, Madrid (mechanical engineering)
Stainless steel Escale mesh: GKD
Location: Parque de la Arganzuela, 28045, Madrid, Spain
Beginning of conceptual design for the urban competition for the redevelopment of the Manzaranes banks: 2005
Beginning of conceptual design for the footbridge: February 2008
Beginning of construction: February 2010
Length of the construction: 13 months

Above: photograph is by Gaelle Lauriot Prevost

Arganzuela park area 23 hectares
10 000 trees and 122 000 shrub planted

Arganzuela footbridge dimensions
south cone: 150 metres long
north cone: 128 metres long
diameter varies 5 à 12 metres from one end to the other

Total area of the decks 1 684 m²
south cone: 922 m²
north cone:762 m²

Tree species: ipe wood

Lampposts number 32
south cone: 17
north cone: 15

Luminary under the decks number 66
south cone: 35
north cone: 31

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Pasarela del Postiguet by bgstudio	Can Gili Footbridge by Alfa Polaris	Trestles Beach footbridge by Dan Brill Architects

Spanish architects Arranguren & Gallegos have converted a brewery in Madrid into a museum with an underground gallery and triangular windows.

Access to the six-storey Museo ABC is through a courtyard paved with tessellated triangular glass and steel tiles that also cover one side of the building.

The museum houses a collection of drawings and illustrations.

The glazed triangles on the courtyard surface provide skylights to the basement exhibition hall below, where collections of illustrations are presented.

Above ground, the former brewery contains a second exhibition hall, workshops, offices and a reception.

The building was first designed by Spanish architect José López Salaberry, who was also responsible for street-planning in Madrid at the start of the twentieth century.

The street-facing facades retain the original brick exterior and are abutted by a single-storey glass cafe that screens the entrance courtyard.

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Photographs are copyright Museo ABC.

The following information is provided by the museum.

A new museum for Madrid. A reference for Europe.

The Museo ABC de Dibujo e Ilustración located in a modern and surprising building of 3,000 square metres which host the Colección ABC with a holding of 200,000 artworks signed by 1,500 artists. A centre dedicated to drawings and illustrations where there is also room for contemporary authors. A unique proposal both in Spain and in the Continent. Among its objectives: preserving, studying and disseminating the Colección ABC, as well as designing and developing activities related to drawings and illustrations to become and international reference.

The Museo ABC has been conceived as an open and plural centre, both for the mainstream and for the specialized public. Its aims are clear: presenting and preserving the Colección ABC, as well as developing a wide cultural program. The celebration of temporary exhibitions, workshops, conferences, debates; the announcement of prices or internships; the edition of publications… will turn the new museum into a creative, live and very dynamic space.

The centre expects focusing its view on the most current tendencies and on the most interesting creative proposals, starting mechanisms which will enable the production and promotion of contemporary drawings and illustrations, so that a large number of artists have access to the public dissemination of their work.

This project, guaranteed by the Diario ABC and the Vocento group, is driven by Fundación Colección ABC, a non-profit organization which aim is to custody, disseminate and investigate the valuable legacy of the Colección ABC. Since its birth, it is supported by the Town Council and Government of Madrid.

The Museo ABC is a private initiative to support, at present, cultural and artistic expressions. It is a self- managed entity which is sponsored by companies of all fields with a common initiative and interest on the artistic world. Currently, it counts with the collaboration of Fundación Santander, Fundación Mutua Madrileña, Caser, Prosegur and Schindler.

The Museo ABC is a private initiative to support, at present, cultural and artistic expressions. It is a self- managed entity which is sponsored by companies of all fields with a common initiative and interest on the artistic world. Currently, it counts with the collaboration of Fundación Santander, Fundación Mutua Madrileña, Caser, Prosegur and Schindler.

The editorial group with the longest history of the country has narrated current affairs since 1891, making an effort to promote on its pages the art and the culture through drawings and illustrations, first on the pagesof the weekly newspaper Blanco y Negro and then on Diario ABC.

The Colección ABC gathers the works of more than 1,500 artists of all styles, techniques and tendencies, with nearly 200,000 pieces. Following the collection’s development throughout its history will enable substantiating the consolidation of the most important illustrators, the role played by certain artists of the highest relevance, the diverse changes of taste and the different historical and social events narrated through these media.

It is a historical but decidedly contemporary collection. Thus, this exceptional material becomes a decisive contribution to our artistic heritage. It is a unique collection, unequalled in Europe. Additionally, it has an up-to-the-minute feature in so far as it interacts with other areas, such as graphic design, comic strips, animation or digital creation.

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The venue of the new Museo ABC de Dibujo e Ilustración is located in Madrid, at calle Amaniel, a few metres away from the Conde Duque Cultural Centre, on a brick building which, at the beginning of the last Century, hosted one of the first beer factories of the Spanish capital.

Its designer was José López Salaberry, an architect closely related to the development of the new Madrid urbanism at the beginning of the 20th Century. He is responsible for the transfer of La Cibeles to its current location, as well as one of the creators of the Gran Vía street plans and the architect of the building of the Casino of Madrid and of the facade of the building used by ABC and Blanco y Negro for many decades on calle Serrano.

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In order to adapt this singular space to the needs of the new artistic centre, the Museo ABC has relied on the
architect studio Aranguren & Gallegos, which has conceived its rehabilitation with a two-fold objective: remodelling the space for its new use and enriching the urban environment by contributing to the city with a respectful but innovative architectonic proposal.

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The new Museum counts with a surface of over 3,000 m2 to develop its activities, distributed into six floors, two of which are underground. There are two spacious exhibition rooms, multifunctional spaces, a floor used for management duties, a deposit for the artworks, a restoration laboratory, warehouses, cafeteria and store. In short, it is the best scenario possible for the visitor to access and enjoy the centre’s wide program.

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A large and surprising double-high-ceiling room under a new pedestrian square is the main exhibition space. The natural light penetrates through a system of skylights perforated on the floor of this square which, in turn, serve as entry vestibule for the Museum. This is the area which shows modern elements integrating with the historical building. Its floor is covered by blued steel on grey and crystal tones. These materials – with the same triangular exploded view – rise to cover the interior facade of the former factory. The setting is closed by a large glass and metal beam which functions as a lintel and houses the cafeteria.

The ground entry floor, conceived a welcoming space, lodges the store-library and a flexible space prepared
to host a small auditorium or projection room…There is a second room for exhibitions on the first floor. This large and open space recalls a loft, evidencing and respecting its industrial past.

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The second floor is dedicated to the Museum’s management, administration and works. On the third floor, a large multipurpose space, roofed, will be dedicated to cultural and social activities. This space will also lodge didactic, training and creation activities. The building is topped by a cubic space, identical to the one which hosts the cafeteria, and raised over the roof as a large torch.

The deposit and warehouse are located on the basement, designed for the art pieces’ best security, optimal preservation and manipulation.

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Messner Mountain Museum by EM2	Moritzburg Museum by Nieto Sobejano	Lille Métropole Musée by Manuelle Gautrand

This metal house on stilts by Spanish architect Arturo Franco projects over a river valley in central Spain.

Named Casa Paz, the house perches over the valley on steel legs and can only be accessed from the top of the valley where it almost touches the ground.

The house was completed back in 2006.

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Photography is by Carlos Fernandez Piñar.

The following information is from the architects:

Casa Paz is located in a housing development built in the 60’s, approximately 70Km. outside of Madrid. The area is considered a conventional residential zone, of no specific architectural interest, built using heterogeneous topologies and materials. The housing development, called Rio Cofio, is located on the outskirts of the village Robledo de Chavela; there at the edge of a cliff, a 1,400 m2 steeply sloped lot overlooks a small river. The property is accessed by a road that runs right above it. Directly in front, facing west over the valley, the mountain rises again, creating a natural park that is especially protected.

When we first saw this lot, we felt it essential to be able to reach this area with the house; to be able to hang in the middle of the valley, suspended at the top of a tree, almost at the other side, listening the murmur of Cofio River directly below. From here, we had to resolve a technical, functional and, mainly, economical problem. The need to work practically without any resources led us to sharpen our wits and to administer the work ourselves, subcontracting all of the professionals one-by-one. None of them (all local trade professionals), nor any of us, had run into such a structural problem as this one when building a house before.

How could we build this there without financial backing and achieve a unique space for the two people that were to live there? We began to think: an iron structure like those of the visionary Russian Constructivists, a work by Tony Carr, a chair by Shapiro, a piece by Max Hill; something heavy and light at the same time; gravity, an issue; the scale, an instrument to work with; a large table or a small ship.

In the end, we were searching for a linear house with a rise to it. The straight line and an interior staircase with 90 cm. deep steps as in a garden, reuniting all functions. Below it, a small therapeutic pool, 2 m. wide by 10 m. long.

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The entire design is developed inside a metal, “cubic like” structure (parallelepiped) clad with a skin stretched sheet metal (deployé), resting on a reinforced concrete base – the container for the pool water and for the gas, heater, water treatment tanks, etc. The guts of this iron artifact, where all vital fluids are concentrated. All of this, more than 15 meters above the river. Nine HEB 300 carry the load the ground. These columns are the only contact the house has with the ground.

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To maintain structural equilibrium and a certain gravitational logic, the house is suspended 5.5 m. over the river without any support, and the same amount is projected towards the road, where there it ends up being only 40 cm. above ground at the entrance. By doing this, a balance in weight is achieved; apart from placing the heavy elements over the cement frame, thus lowering the center of gravity.

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The crane that was available only reached 18 m., that is only as far as the concrete box. We were not going to be able to construct the cantilever that projected out towards the river. The solution consisted in erecting the entire metal cage and then sliding it into position over rails using manual winches, as if it were a train.

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In short, this house in which Paz and her husband Tomas presently live was an adventure and we are grateful to them for their trust and courage. It is a home with which, according to them, they wholly identify.

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Arturo Franco, as architect of the team, working with Fabrice van Teslaar, architect, and Diego Castellano, interior architect and work coordinator, had projected and constructed this dwelling. Casa Paz. Río Cofio Housing Development, Robledo de Chavela, Madrid.

Location: C/ DEL RIO, 591. URB. RIO COFIO. ROBLEDO DE CHAVELA. 28294 MADRID.
Preparation of the project and completion of construction schedule: January 2004-April 2006.

Project’s authorship: Arturo Franco. (architect), Fabrice van Teslaar. (architect)
Project’s collaborators: Diego Castellanos (interior architect)
Site Supervisor and Quantity Surveyor: Salvador Baños.
Developer/Owner: Paz Fernandez/Tomas Rodríguez

Cost per Square Meter: 280,000 euros. – 771 euros/sq m
Area or volume constructed: 363 sq m

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