Behind the scenes: not only a car wash
17/05/2016.
by Lina Toro. [VIDEO] from El Hijo Tonto. [MAD] Spain
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Burbucar is a car wash located on the street Costa Rica in Madrid. It is an established business that uses clean and innovative processes, and seeks to visualize their philosophy through a new image.
Exterior view. Burbucar by Lina Toro. Photography courtesy of © Miguel de Guzmán.
Exterior view. Burbucar by Lina Toro. Photography courtesy of © Miguel de Guzmán.
Exterior view. Burbucar by Lina Toro. Photography courtesy of © Miguel de Guzmán.
Inside view. Burbucar by Lina Toro. Photography courtesy of © Miguel de Guzmán.
Inside view. Burbucar by Lina Toro. Photography courtesy of © Miguel de Guzmán.
Inside view. Burbucar by Lina Toro. Photography courtesy of © Miguel de Guzmán.
Inside view. Burbucar by Lina Toro. Photography courtesy of © Miguel de Guzmán.
Inside view. Burbucar by Lina Toro. Photography courtesy of © Miguel de Guzmán.
Inside view. Burbucar by Lina Toro. Photography courtesy of © Miguel de Guzmán.
Inside view. Burbucar by Lina Toro. Photography courtesy of © Miguel de Guzmán.
Inside view. Burbucar by Lina Toro. Photography courtesy of © Miguel de Guzmán.
Inside view. Burbucar by Lina Toro. Photography courtesy of © Miguel de Guzmán.
Inside view. Burbucar by Lina Toro. Photography courtesy of © Miguel de Guzmán.
Inside view. Burbucar by Lina Toro. Photography courtesy of © Miguel de Guzmán.
Inside view. Burbucar by Lina Toro. Photography courtesy of © Miguel de Guzmán.
Inside view. Burbucar by Lina Toro. Photography courtesy of © Miguel de Guzmán.
Inside view. Burbucar by Lina Toro. Photography courtesy of © Miguel de Guzmán.
Inside view. Burbucar by Lina Toro. Photography courtesy of © Miguel de Guzmán.
Inside view. Burbucar by Lina Toro. Photography courtesy of © Miguel de Guzmán.
Inside view. Burbucar by Lina Toro. Photography courtesy of © Miguel de Guzmán.
Inside view. Burbucar by Lina Toro. Photography courtesy of © Miguel de Guzmán.
The car wash designed by Lina Toro occupies the ground floor of a residential building of 7 floors in a tube 70m long and 12 wide. Resting on a bed of 10cm neoprene absorbing vibrations of the machine car wash. Recycles 80% of water used in a room with 6 specific purification tanks. In winter, humidity is above 80% and the wind chill is 0 degrees. It wash an average of 80 cars per day on an uninterrupted schedule of 12 hours from Monday to Saturday.
Description of the proyect by Lina Toro
The order occurs with one condition: not stop at any time running the business. The project is implemented in 1 month. Without interruptions.
#BehindTheScenes Offers customers associated spaces waiting viewing hidden processes before washing.
#BehindTheScenes Resolved in a single technical decision (painting), the general concept, rapid implementation and easy maintenance.
#BehindTheScenes Change the corporate image of conventional car washes to tech SPA.
#BehindTheScenes Fuses architecture, design and art in a joint operation.
LINEAR SCENERY
The project integrates and teaches all constituent elements in a continuous sequence of 100 exterior-interior-exterior meters: carwash, boxes, windows, scenery, costumes, bathrooms, furniture, machinery, equipment, lighting rooms, greenery and ramps. The action takes place in an average time of 25 minutes.
SENSORY SPA
Cleaning processes and specific engineering disrobe at the service of the customer experience in three windows. The window-tunnel, lines up 7 consecutive arches singular spectacle; the window-debugging, teaches the recycling process water (coarse and fine solids settling, accumulators, oil separator and filters) and the window-hedonist of the VIP room where the furniture records the position of the passive or active standby, either in suspended and transparent pool chair or ball-pomp.
TECHNICAL BAMBALINA
The unique technical resolution based in epoxy paint with caliber and specific composition solves everything: picture, efficient execution and water resistance.
The monochrome background highlights the backstage machinery and space activity.
It uncovers the hidden conventionally: false ceilings and ducts appear CO2; the gaps between engine rooms and visitors and tanks appear; the tunnel lights and beauty of the industrial engineering appears.
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Architect
Lina Toro
Collaborators
Raquel Ruiz y José María Sánchez Laforet
Area
750 sqm
Date
february 2016
Place
Costa Rica St, 36 Madrid
Lina TORO
Lina Toro (1978). Architect graduated with honours at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB) in Medellín, Colombia (2002), acknowledged by the RIBA.MArch degree approved by the Ministry of Education and Science of Spain (2007).
Among the firm’s selected work, ‘102 dwellings in Carabanchel, Madrid’, ’67 dwellings in Colmenar Viejo, Madrid’, ’17 dwellings in Vallecas, Madrid’, ‘Central Library and Museum, Alcalá de Henares’ or ‘Social Services Center in Mostoles’.
Since 2006, she is the co-editor-in-chief of ‘Arquitectos’ Magazine, issued by the National Architects Association in Spain (indexed in the AVERY HALL Library), and delivered to 47000 architects all over the country.
From 2004 to 2007, she co-directed and co-curated –together with Ignacio Borrego and Néstor Montenegro- the monographic cycle ‘Monoespacios’, held by the Architects Association of Madrid (COAM).
Since 2013 is columnist at TurnOnArt, Global Art off the Radar, in Ivorypress.
Since 2014 starts LinaToro.arch, an architectural firm where she developed her practice as an architect, professor, editor, curator and columnist of architecture.z
She is an associated professor at Escuela Técnica Superior de Madrid, within Juan Herreros’s Unit (2008-), associated professor at the IE School of Architecture in Segovia, leading the International Graduation Workshop (Thesis Project) and Design Studio III, VII. She is a visiting professor at the ‘Tri-Continental Master’s degree in Advance Architectural Design’, at Universidad Europea de Madrid (UEM), at ‘MArch in Collective Housing’, Madrid and at ‘MPAA Máster y Doctorado en Proyectos Arquitectónicos Avanzados’, at Escuela Técnica superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM). She has been an invited professor at Roma TRE School of Architecture, Italy (2012), at Escola da Cidade, Sao Paulo, Brazil (2010) and at Universidad Católica de Lima, Perú (2011), where she has participated in different juries and workshops.
Among the firm’s selected work, ‘102 dwellings in Carabanchel, Madrid’, ’67 dwellings in Colmenar Viejo, Madrid’, ’17 dwellings in Vallecas, Madrid’, ‘Central Library and Museum, Alcalá de Henares’ or ‘Social Services Center in Mostoles’.
Since 2006, she is the co-editor-in-chief of ‘Arquitectos’ Magazine, issued by the National Architects Association in Spain (indexed in the AVERY HALL Library), and delivered to 47000 architects all over the country.
From 2004 to 2007, she co-directed and co-curated –together with Ignacio Borrego and Néstor Montenegro- the monographic cycle ‘Monoespacios’, held by the Architects Association of Madrid (COAM).
Since 2013 is columnist at TurnOnArt, Global Art off the Radar, in Ivorypress.
Since 2014 starts LinaToro.arch, an architectural firm where she developed her practice as an architect, professor, editor, curator and columnist of architecture.z
She is an associated professor at Escuela Técnica Superior de Madrid, within Juan Herreros’s Unit (2008-), associated professor at the IE School of Architecture in Segovia, leading the International Graduation Workshop (Thesis Project) and Design Studio III, VII. She is a visiting professor at the ‘Tri-Continental Master’s degree in Advance Architectural Design’, at Universidad Europea de Madrid (UEM), at ‘MArch in Collective Housing’, Madrid and at ‘MPAA Máster y Doctorado en Proyectos Arquitectónicos Avanzados’, at Escuela Técnica superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM). She has been an invited professor at Roma TRE School of Architecture, Italy (2012), at Escola da Cidade, Sao Paulo, Brazil (2010) and at Universidad Católica de Lima, Perú (2011), where she has participated in different juries and workshops.
