ATENEO Renovation Design Competition Proposal
Enter Ateneo International Design Competition Final 10
The Ateneo is a non-profit organization founded in 1884 with the aim of promoting science, literature, and the arts. The Ateneo's facilities are a complex of historical and artistic value, and are among the city's most highly protected architectural and urban planning institutions. A design competition was held with the aim of providing a cheap, temporary, and modern renovation without damaging the building.
■We decided to fill the entrance hall with nylon fiber used for fishing nets. The original walls and statues blend into the nylon mist, appearing vaguely in the air as you approach, and disappearing into the mist as you move away. Depending on the visitor's position, a third landscape is created, where old and new coexist.
■Since its opening, ATENEO de MADRID has been a venue for various politicians, philosophers, and artists. While it is an extremely important institution for disseminating cultural information, its media role has also been used for political purposes throughout its long history. As we embark on a new chapter for ATENEO, we need to re-acknowledge its history. We will bring this "two-sidedness" of both front and back into the hall, and make the historical character of the facility function as its greatest attraction.
■ Approachability, friendliness, and traffic flow planning
One of the attractions of The British Museum (designed by Norman Foster) is its exterior and the flow of traffic leading to the Great Court. The soft light of the courtyard, floating in the darkness under the pediment, gives the facility dignity and is an important element that attracts people's attention and invites them into the courtyard.
We inserted another antechamber into the antechamber at the entrance of the Ateneo. By creating a dark space between the street and the hall and using it as a space where information about the facility is projected, the program inside the facility will spill out into the city, and the light emerging from the darkness will draw people's attention.
■Modernization By contrasting the old and the new, we propose a plan that "connects" the new and the old, rather than emphasizing the contrast between the old and the new as in conventional renovations, nor making major changes to the existing facility.
The new ATENEO creates a new space that is unlike anything you've seen before.
■ Advertising & Signage (purpose, activities)
Information will be projected onto the newly inserted anteroom (darkroom) and beamed towards the Prado. The arched opening that emerges from the darkness retains its charm even in the daytime. The information projected is highly diverse and can be flexibly updated.
■Reversibility: To achieve maximum effect with minimum construction, materials will be kept to a minimum. Both aluminum channels and nylon fiber for fishing nets are inexpensive, highly durable, and lightweight. The aim is to dramatically change the space with simple construction and inexpensive materials. The aluminum channels will be prefabricated according to their standard units, and after transportation, construction will only require installation, with plans to make disassembly easy.
■Budget By using commonly available, inexpensive materials, you can keep your budget surprisingly low.
■ Structure Nylon fiber is suspended from aluminum channels fixed to the ceiling surface to form a screen. The nylon fiber is 0.74 mm in diameter, 6.7 m high, and 1 cm wide to form a single screen, with the spacing between each screen being 100 mm. Installation must be tailored to the situation, but in any case, this is not an issue that will have a major impact on cost or construction method.
■Fitment lighting: Automatically dimmed, projectors for projection onto the screen: 3
2011
Madrid, Spain
2 floors above ground, masonry construction
