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AV Proyectos 100 MAD Architects

MAD ARCHITECTS + METRO HEADQUARTERS AND MUSEUM IN MADRID · WOOD STRUCTURES IN DETAIL · MUPAC COMPETITION IN SANTANDER · LEQUEU IN NYC · IRENAEUS HEROK

AV Proyectos 100 MAD Architects

MAD Architects. Organic and Futuristic
Founded in 2004 by the Chinese architect Ma Yansong, MAD Architects is an international firm with offices in Beijing, Los Angeles, Rome, and Jiaxing. Since its beginnings, the studio has been committed to the development of futuristic, organic, and dreamlike projects inspired in a contemporary interpretation of the spirit of nature. The following pages include some of the studio’s proposals, which are focussed on human emotions, feelings, and spiritual needs, and in which the population may live outside of nature but can return to it too, trying to create a balance between people, the city, and the environment, in a vision of the future city.

Nexo+GdlF+APerea. Metro HQ & Museum, Madrid
The CIT (Centro Integral de Transporte) is an initiative of Metro de Madrid to build a transport center in the old sheds of Plaza de Castilla in Madrid. The competition was called in 2016, and the team formed by the architects Lourdes Carretero, Manuel Leira, Julio de la Fuente, Andrés Perea, and Iván Carbajosa carried the day with an urban regeneration proposal. The project partially preserves an obsolete metro facility that was still on the plot, and adds a series of buildings connected below grade, distributed around a garden of industrial character, which will centralize the office spaces and services related to transportation in the Community of Madrid.

Wood Structures. Six Examples
Protagonist of the mythical narrations surrounding the concept of ‘the primitive hut,’ and used since always, wood is once again an appealing option for architects today. Its original characteristics – manageability and different formats, accessibility, resilience, and use as cladding and structure at the same time – are rounded off by the advantages of the industrial lamination processes, computer design and robotics, which improve the structural efficiency of the frames, and stabilize the structures, overcoming past limitations. The following six projects explore the aesthetic features – tactile and visual warmth – of this environment-friendly material.

Jean-Jacques Lequeu. Visionary Architect
Six months before dying in poverty, the visionary French architect Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1757-1826), after failing to find a buyer, donated hundreds of his drawings to the Bibliothèque nationale de France. His detailed works describe all sorts of themes – imaginary architectures, animals, characters, erotism –, creating fantastic worlds and showing great skill and creativity. Inspired in the Classical age and the Enlightenment, Lequeu’s drawings reflect the opportunities and hardships of his time, and a vision of architecture that challenges academic frontiers, to the point of being compared with figures like Étienne- Louis Boullée and Claude-Nicolas Ledoux.

Irenaeus Herok. Sand and Water
Trained in Fine Arts and with experience in design and visual effects, the photographer Irenaeus Herok, born in Poland and based in Sydney, specializes in portraits, landscape, and aerial photography. His travels have taken him to remote places around the world documenting, in beautiful images, the fierce battle between humans and nature. Some of his most well-known series are devoted to water, with aerial views of beaches and pools in which the swimmers accentuate the plasticity of his compositions; and especially those taken in the desert, showing roads and highways on the brink of being devoured by the sand dunes in the arid interior landscape of the Emirates.

MAD Architects, Organic and Futuristic

Harbin Taiping International Airport Terminal 3, Harbin (China) Quzhou Sports Park, Quzhou (China)
Shenzhen Bay Culture Park, Shenzhen (China)
Xinhee Design Center, Xiamen (China)
China Philharmonic Concert Hall, Beijing (China)
Yabuli Conference Center, Yabuli (China)
Yiwu Grand Theater, Yiwu (China)
Fenix Museum of Migration, Rotterdam (Netherlands)
Pingtan Art Museum, Pingtan (China)
Wormhole Library, Haikou, Hainan Province (China)

MUPAC, Competition in Santander

Mendoza Partida
estudio DIIR
Matos Castillo arquitectos
Ignacio Senra y Elisa Sequeros
mateoarquitectura

Wood Structures, Six Examples

Studio Botter, Studio Bressan
Congress And Exhibition Center, Agordo, Belluno (Italy)

LUO studio
Party and Public Service Center, Yuanheguan Village (China)

DnA_Design and Architecture
Tofu Factory, Caizhai Village, Zhejiang Province (China)

Barkow Leibinger
TRUMPF Day-Care Center, Ditzingen (Germany)

Pablo Larroulet
AKA Patagonia, Puerto Natales (Chile)

Carles Enrich Studio
Merola’s Tower Recovery, Puig-reig (Spain)

Metro Headquarters and Museum in Madrid, in Construction
Nexo Arquitectura + Gutiérrez delaFuente Arquitectos + Andrés Perea Arquitecto
Madrid (Spain)

Jean-Jacques Lequeu, Visionary Architect
Drawings from the Bibliothèque nationale de France

Irenaeus Herok, Sand and Water
Oman, Australia and United Arab Emirates from the Air