*빅트리, 콘크리트 캔틸레버 컬쳐 센터 [ Fündc ] New Cultural Centre

 

광장안에 심어진 '거대한 나무'는
자연스럽게 사람들의 안식처가 되어
그 그늘아래에서 커뮤니티와 문화의 꽃이
피어나도록 도와준다.
스페인 마드리드 NCC는 '메가-트리-포트' 컨셉으로
자연을 모티브로 한 광장의 색다른 커뮤티니 공간을
보여준다.
광장에 장중하게 솟아 있는 콘크리트 메스(캔틸레버 구조)는
거대한 나무와 같이 사람들을 내부 뮤지엄과 카페로
유입시킨다. 이렇게 유입된 사람들은
뮤지엄의 산책로를 따라 움직이며 문화와
커뮤니티를 외부로 연결된 스트리트 퍼니처와
같이 공감시킨다.
때로는 오디토리움으로 변형 가능한 플렉시블한
평면 계획은 다양한 문화공간의 접점을 만들어
전체 광장을 하나의 커다란 공간으로 묶는다.
사실, 수평적으로 엮여진 지상층의 커뮤티니 공간은
지하에 설치된 주차공간과 차량동선의 계획으로
가능하게 된 것이다.
지하와 지상의 합리적인 기능적 분리는
현재 우리가 차량을 피해 지하도로를
이용하는 것과는 정반대인 사람중심의
공간을 보여준다.
이렇듯 자연을 모티브로 구현된 건축양식은
사람들의 패턴을 바꾸어주면 삶에 질을 높여주는
중요한 역활을 한다.
우리가 디자인해야 하는
효율적, 기능적, 합리적이라는 뜻이 말하는 것이
단순히 빠르고, 단순하고, 경제적이라는 논리는
아니다.

reviewed by SJ


The auditorium of this Madrid cultural centre by Spanish studio Fündc is contained in a bulky concrete cantilever.

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Located at the heart of a public square, the cast concrete New Cultural Centre (NCC) also contains flexible exhibition rooms and a cafe.

Integrated benches and planters fill the surrounding square, with three floors of underground parking beneath.

 

Fündc designs a ‘New Historical Centre’ in Madrid

Car and pedestrian. Vegetation and hard square. Modern and classic. This new urban concept bets for all of the above.

Fündc, Spanish architecture and urban planning office, just finalized the largest urban intervention of the last decades made on Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid: the New Cultural Center (NCC) and the new pedestrian area on and around Padre Vallet Square. It establishes itself as the origin of the new network of pedestrian spaces.

The project has a couple of unprecedented design solutions such as ‘mega-tree-pots’ and a transformable hall.

The pots allow for the growth of medium-large trees above an underground parking, making possible green areas where usually just hard squares are found.

The hall allows for an use modification on the cultural building program, as it can switch between exhibition promenade and auditorium mode through the manipulation of movable floor decks.

The built size of the intervention, both under and above ground comes near to 20.000 m2 (65.000 sq. ft.). It consists on the urbanisation through a new uninterrupted stone pavement, fountains and ‘mega-tree-pots’ around a new cultural center building. The latter is composed of two different architectural typologies, old and new, which work on a symbiotic manner providing traditional and transformable spaces.

Under these areas and building a double-deck parking absorbs the vehicle impact working together with underground roads and bus stops, freeing the upper square spaces to pedestrians and bikes.

“This intervention changes the traditional way of understanding new pedestrian areas on built environment as it does not choose between pedestrians or cars but accepts both, re-positioning them.” As explained by architect Cesar Garcia co-author and partner together with Paz Martin of Fündc, office originally established in the Netherlands and relocated to Spain. “No need for road restrictions when you can reposition them underground. No need for lack of parking places as you can multiply them on levels. No need for flat hard public squares when you can grow large trees, necessary for urban comfort on this climate.”

The authors also mention that they would not choose between architectures of the past or the future but accept both. they do not position themselves on an extreme but respect the collective memory and presence of existing buildings in combination with the spatial advantages that more futuristic shapes can provide. A new hybrid typology is thus generated on which each part conforms a symbiotic whole on present time. “We believe necessary to unify opinions, or at least start a discussion, with the NCC, in between the figures of final user and architect”

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