New Exhibition Space. Bank of Spain Madrid

New Exhibition Space. Bank of Spain Madrid

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New Exhibition Space. Bank of Spain Madrid.
Architects/Authors:
MEDIO MUNDO Arquitectos. Marta Pelegrín + Fernando Pérez.
Project:
Rehabilitation of ancient Building area for an exhibition centre.
PROGRAMME:
Cultural. Rehabilitation and Exhibition Design
SITUATION:
Central Bank o Spain. Madrid.
DATES:
2018-2021
PROMOTORS:
Bank of Spain / Banco de España
COLLABORATORS:
Jose Pedraza, Daniel Reyes
AREA:
350m2
ADVISORS:
ELITE ingeniería, Ernesto Murillo: MEP
Toni Rueda: Lighting
Jose A Lubiano: Cost planner

Bank of Spain Madrid was first build according the design of architects Sainz de la Lastra and Eduardo de Adaro, commissioned after studying the buildings of other European banks. 1883 the Final project was approved. The first stone was laid on July 4, 1884, and the monumental building was inaugurated in 1891.

The Cibeles Room has a great importance from the origin of the building, usual access at the point of confluence of Calle Alcalá and Pº del Prado, until the beginning of the nineties. Access through chamfer smelting gate is made by two exclusives that open on the sides of the atrium and connect with the side adjoining rooms, since access from the street is not direct to the room, but forms a lobby.

The main area is a high-rise room in which the columns stand out, which is flanked symmetrically by two adjoining rooms that also give Alcalá and Pº del Prado respectively, which expand the space of the central hall to be communicated through broad steps.

The Chamber was renovated in 1992, with the project written by Angela Garcia de Paredes and Ignacio Pedrosa.

In 2018 Bank of Spain commissioned Marta Pelegrin and MEDIOMUNDO arquitectos to lead the Final Design and Building Permits Technical Design for the rehabilitation and retrofitting of Sala Cibeles, C / Alcalá, 48. Paseo del Prado. Madrid. It consist in the Technical development Fit-out works & Shop drawings management, for the retrofitting of the Sala Cibeles to hold the Bank of Spain Art Collection, the premier exhibition “Goya and the Origin of the Bank of Spain Collection” , and to fit it for all possible future exhibitions. This project proposes to recover and optimize the operation of the facilities of lighting, security, detection, signalling, alarm and fire extinguishing elements and existing air conditioning.

Exhibition Design, “Audiosphere” Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

Exhibition Design, “Audiosphere” Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

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Architects/Authors:
MEDIOMUNDO Arquitectos. Marta Pelegrín + Fernando Pérez.
Category:
Exhibition Design
PROGRAMME:
Interior Design. Exhibition and furniture design.
SITUATION:
Reina Sofía museum and art center. Madrid
AREA:
1300m2
DATES:
2018-2020
COLLABORATORS:
Jose Pedraza, Sergio Rodríguez, Leonardo Muñoz, Álvaro Arrans
PROMOTORS:
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
ADVISORS
Antoni Rueda. Lighting
José A Lubiano. Cost planner
PHOTOS:
Joaquín Cortés/ Román Lores (Archivo  MNCARS) y MEDIOMUNDO Arquitectos

Marta Pelegrín & MEDIOMUNDO arquitectos  have been Commissioned Final Design & Technical Development of fit-out works, advisors and supplier’s management, as well as onsite construction quality surveillance coordination, for the exhibition on Audio Contemporary Social Art curated by Francisco López Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum: April – September 2020, in in the 3rd floor Sabatini Building Reina Sofia Exhibition galleries.

“The objective of this exhibition is to present to the public interested in contemporary art not only a plethora of unknown audio-artists (many of whom have extensive careers spanning decades), but also – and crucially – contents and experiences for a broad reflection on a monumental social process of artistic change in the field of sound creation.

This exhibition also aims to cover a historical and cultural vacuum in the recognition, exhibition and analysis of a essential part of the changes in the artistic conception of work Creative with sound. This poor representation is largely due to the persistence of classic paradigms – significant but overwhelming – stories as the “pioneers”, the “avant-garde”, the linear-chronological (or monophyletic) and, in the specific case of contemporary art, naturally also the Prevalence of the visual and the objectual. This exhibition will therefore present a critical and constructive reconsideration of these paradigms and their effects in the understanding and practice of creative artistic work with sound.

The exhibition “Luis Gordillo”

The exhibition “Luis Gordillo”

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ARCHITECTS/AUTHORS:
MEDIO MUNDO Arquitectos. Marta Pelegrín + Fernando Pérez.

PROJECT:
LUIS GORDILLO: CONFESIÓN GENERAL
PROGRAMME:
Exhibition
SITUATION:
Carlos V Palace. La Alhambra, Granada
DATES:
2017 CONCURSO, 2017Proyecto, 2017 Obra

The José Guerrero Center and the Patronage of the Alhambra and the Generalife show in Granada, an anthological exhibition of the artist Luis Gordillo.

Marta Pelegrín and MEDIOMUNDO arquitectos are commissioned to design the exhibition and adaptation of the Temporary Show Museum’s Rooms at the Charles the V Palace.

The exhibition “Luis Gordillo: General Confession” is presented as an anthology that covers all the stages of the Sevillian artist from the late fifties to his most recent works. Throughout his career, Gordillo has maintained a permanent creative tension that has made him a reference painter in the Spanish art scene and a symbol of the vitality of painting.

This is the most important exhibition about Luis Gordillo after the MACBA anthologies (1999) and the Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum (2007). In this exhibition, about two hundred pieces are gathered and a journey through almost six decades and all its creative stages.

The exhibition follows a chronological development grouped by specific rooms that take into account the following stops: their automatic drawings in relation to informalism; their heads related to British pop with tricuatropatas, pedestrians and motorists; the drawing as the backbone of his production of the 70s along with his experiences with the photographic image and seriality during most of that decade; the 80 marked mainly in the series of Los Meandros; the 90 grouped around one of his most important paintings Snow White and the fierce Pollock; in the 2000s with new experimentations in media and techniques giving access to digital, to end the journey with a new series of heads made in 2015.

The exhibition is co-produced by the following institutions: the Guerrero Center, the Alhambra and Generalife Patronage, the Andalusian Center for Contemporary Art, the Galician Center for Contemporary Art in Santiago de Compostela and the Koldo Mitxelena Kulturenea center in San Sebastián.

SHANGHAI – ARCHITECTURE – EVERY DAY LIFE PREPOSITIONS

SHANGHAI – ARCHITECTURE – EVERY DAY LIFE PREPOSITIONS

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ARCHITECTS/AUTHORS:
MEDIO MUNDO Arquitectos. Marta Pelegrín + Fernando Pérez.

PROJECT:
Arquitectura Dispuesta Shanghai
PROGRAMME:
Arquitectura Dispuesta: Preposiciones Cotidanas Shanghai
SITUATION:
Tongji CAUP University, Shanghai
DATES:
7 Nov – 15 Dec 2017
COLLABORATORS:
Alejandro Bejarano, Valentin Berlanga, Luz Pardo, Alice Simpkins-Woods, Amelia Maresca
PROMOTORS:
College of Architecture and Urban Planning of Tongji University, Sino-Spanish Campus at Tongji University
MOUNTING:
College of Architecture and Urban Planning of Tongji University + MEDIOMUNDO ARQUITECTOS
SURFACE:
Exhibition space only: 407.8m2. Extended Surface area: 1395.48m2

ARCHITECTURE SET: EVERYDAYLIFE PREPOSITIONS is an exhibition, workshop and lecture program aiming to show the processes with which a selection of contemporary architectural practices are involved in. This program gathers together architecture proposals and works that display pragmatic and experimental approaches and which condense and manifest an intense relationship with the urban, social, political and productive environment in which they materialize.

     As result of a professional attitude based on the importance given to processes, the attention payed to material expression, and the consideration of producing agents, builders and people involved, the displayed works show spatial and material proposals whose processes and techniques mediate between the Zeitgeist (in German, the spirit of an era) and Erfindergeist (in German, their ingenuity).

     These Architectural practices, with their various precedents and different context, are involved in the construction of urban spaces, productive spaces and dwellings; that is, our everyday habitat.
So that, this program sets out in order to show, discuss and develop the links between architectural practice and the social and cultural context in which it is produced.

     With previous editions in Seville (2014) Evora (2015) and Madrid (2016), the traveling exhibition ‘Arquitectura Dispuesta / Preposiciones Cotidianas – Architecture Set / Everyday Prepositions´ (AD/PC) arrives to Shanghai with a focus on the ideas of continuity, renovation, and ultimately, with an expanding notion of heritage.

     There is a powerful reason for this apparent haphazard bridge that AD/PC establishes between the South of Europe and East Asia: Basically, how the attention towards the idea of different, or alternative, paths of development, has risen in two very different circumstances. In the case of Southern Europe, the brutal cancellation of any expectative of growth has produced an intense debate about what is architecture among those who practice it in very different fields. At the same time, the emergence of a critical, pragmatic approach to the production of architecture in Eastern Asia has deeply questioned the absence of constraints in the relationship between development and the environment. Therefore, two deeply committed stances have the opportunity to sit down, meet, gather, and speak.

     According to contemporary means of defining, what is heritage?, different conceptual frameworks emerge. The most ancient ones would refer to the idea of connection with the past. History would thus be the measure against which to evaluate the contribution of architecture to the definition of culture. Most recent, people-centered approaches would insist in the importance of experience, which besides phenomenology would ultimately render as valuable any kind of appealing architecture no matter whatsoever purposes their producers would expect to achieve.

     The proposal of AD/S would remain in an intermediate stage, establishing a series of values -architectural and urban; historic; cultural; social and economic- which would generate pairs of related concepts ultimately linked by everyday prepositions. These pairs of concepts would be at the forefront in the discussions of the workshop, which would be arranged in five different discussion tables. The pairs would be:

– Materiality and culture,
– Memory and imagination,
– Nature and technology,
– The public and the commons,
– Recycling and synergy.

     Focusing on how does architecture and architects respond to the question of heritage, the different works displayed are grouped into three categories: New Life for Existing Buildings, New Buildings for New C ontexts; L arge Scale Heritage (Landscape, City and Territory). One synthesis of the previous editions of AD/PC, and the work of four editorial practices complete the exhibition

     However, there are multiple additional ways to visit and explore the exhibition. Several itineraries are allowed; all of them with the same preference as the others. Through categories such as “what” (types, uses, activity) “how” (scale, technology, materiality) or ‘where’ (city, town, urban, rural), each of the visitors are able to design their own journey. As an open platform, we invite you to explore and propose further unexpected connections.

 

Royal Academy of Arts London

Royal Academy of Arts London

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ARCHITECTS/AUTHORS:
MEDIO MUNDO Arquitectos. Marta Pelegrín + Fernando Pérez.

PROJECT:
Royal Academy of Art London
DATE:
2016
PLACE:
London
PROMOTOR:
Royal Academy of Arts London
COLLABORATORS:
Caludia Cerelli.

 View a digitised version of this exhibition catalogue here: https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/exhibition-catalogue/ra-sec-vol248-2016

ARCHITECTURE SET: EVERYDAYLIFE PREPOSITIONS is an exhibition, workshop and lecture program aiming to show the processes with which a selection of contemporary architectural practices are involved in. This program gathers together architecture proposals and works that display pragmatic and experimental approaches and which condense and manifest an intense relationship with the urban, social, political and productive environment in which they materialize.

     As result of a professional attitude based on the importance given to processes, the attention payed to material expression, and the consideration of producing agents, builders and people involved, the displayed works show spatial and material proposals whose processes and techniques mediate between the Zeitgeist (in German, the spirit of an era) and Erfindergeist (in German, their ingenuity).

     These Architectural practices, with their various precedents and different context, are involved in the construction of urban spaces, productive spaces and dwellings; that is, our everyday habitat.
So that, this program sets out in order to show, discuss and develop the links between architectural practice and the social and cultural context in which it is produced.

     With previous editions in Seville (2014) Evora (2015) and Madrid (2016), the traveling exhibition ‘Arquitectura Dispuesta / Preposiciones Cotidianas – Architecture Set / Everyday Prepositions´ (AD/PC) arrives to Shanghai with a focus on the ideas of continuity, renovation, and ultimately, with an expanding notion of heritage.

     Currently the production of heritage has become an encompassing purpose. And for architecture, it no longer refers to how buildings relate to the past, but to how they interact with their context in order to assemble the future. Apparently, and in light of recent massive urban destruction for the sake of modernization, the idea of bringing this topic as a thread for an exhibition in Shanghai would seem almost cynical. But right on the contrary, calling attention towards it has become a motivator for current development. Our heritage is no longer inherited, but produced. It is not found, but unveiled.

     There is a powerful reason for this apparent haphazard bridge that AD/PC establishes between the South of Europe and East Asia: Basically, how the attention towards the idea of different, or alternative, paths of development, has risen in two very different circumstances. In the case of Southern Europe, the brutal cancellation of any expectative of growth has produced an intense debate about what is architecture among those who practice it in very different fields. At the same time, the emergence of a critical, pragmatic approach to the production of architecture in Eastern Asia has deeply questioned the absence of constraints in the relationship between development and the environment. Therefore, two deeply committed stances have the opportunity to sit down, meet, gather, and speak.

     According to contemporary means of defining, what is heritage?, different conceptual frameworks emerge. The most ancient ones would refer to the idea of connection with the past. History would thus be the measure against which to evaluate the contribution of architecture to the definition of culture. Most recent, people-centered approaches would insist in the importance of experience, which besides phenomenology would ultimately render as valuable any kind of appealing architecture no matter whatsoever purposes their producers would expect to achieve.

     The proposal of AD/S would remain in an intermediate stage, establishing a series of values -architectural and urban; historic; cultural; social and economic- which would generate pairs of related concepts ultimately linked by everyday prepositions. These pairs of concepts would be at the forefront in the discussions of the workshop, which would be arranged in five different discussion tables. The pairs would be:

– Materiality and culture,
– Memory and imagination,
– Nature and technology,
– The public and the commons,
– Recycling and synergy.

     Focusing on how does architecture and architects respond to the question of heritage, the different works displayed are grouped into three categories: New Life for Existing Buildings, New Buildings for New C ontexts; L arge Scale Heritage (Landscape, City and Territory). One synthesis of the previous editions of AD/PC, and the work of four editorial practices complete the exhibition

     However, there are multiple additional ways to visit and explore the exhibition. Several itineraries are allowed; all of them with the same preference as the others. Through categories such as “what” (types, uses, activity) “how” (scale, technology, materiality) or ‘where’ (city, town, urban, rural), each of the visitors are able to design their own journey. As an open platform, we invite you to explore and propose further unexpected connections.

 

Evora – ARCHITECTURE – EVERY DAY LIFE PREPOSITIONS

Evora – ARCHITECTURE – EVERY DAY LIFE PREPOSITIONS

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ARCHITECTS/AUTHORS:
MEDIO MUNDO Arquitectos. Marta Pelegrín + Fernando Pérez.

PROJECT:
Evora Arquitectura Dispuesta
PROGRAMME:
International Research, Dissemination, Conference, Debate Tables and Teaching Workshops Program.
DATE:
2015-10-03 – 2015-11-03
SURFACE:
550m2
COLLABORATOR:
Daniel Jiménez.
PROMOTER:
Secretary of State of Culture. Culture Ministry. Goverment of Spain. Eugenio Foundation of Almeida.
Escola Das Arts and Architecture University of Évora.
PROMOTOR :
Secretary of State of Culture. General Sub-Directorate of Promotion of Culture Abroad. Culture Ministry. Government of Spain. Directorate General for Policy and Cultural Industries and the book.
Main researcher & Curator MARTA PELEGRIN-RODRIGUEZ
FINANCING:
Secretary of State of Culture. Culture Ministry. Government of Spain. Eugenio Foundation of Almeida.
Escola Das Arts and Architecture University of Évora.
 
 

ARCHITECTURE: EVERYDAYLIFE PREPOSITIONS is an exhibition, workshop and lecture program aiming to show the processes with which a selection of contemporary architectural practices are involved in. This program gathers together architecture proposals and works that display pragmatic and experimental approaches and which condense and manifest an intense relationship with the urban, social, political and productive environment in which they materialize.

     As result of a professional attitude based on the importance given to processes, the attention payed to material expression, and the consideration of producing agents, builders and people involved, the displayed works show spatial and material proposals whose processes and techniques mediate between the Zeitgeist (in German, the spirit of an era) and Erfindergeist (in German, their ingenuity).

     These Architectural practices, with their various precedents and different context, are involved in the construction of urban spaces, productive spaces and dwellings; that is, our everyday habitat.
So that, this program sets out in order to show, discuss and develop the links between architectural practice and the social and cultural context in which it is produced.

     With previous editions in Seville (2014) the traveling exhibition ‘Arquitectura Dispuesta / Preposiciones Cotidianas – Architecture Set / Everyday Prepositions´ (AD/PC) arrives to Evora (2015)  as unique Architecture exhibition in the program launched by the Spanish Government Mostra Espanha 2015