El Prado Extension, "El Salón de Reinos" proposal by Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos
28/11/2016.
[MAD] Spain
metalocus, INÉS LALUETA
metalocus, INÉS LALUETA
The competition's result was known the last Thursday, and it was in order to select the architectural team that will develop the Hall of Realms' rehabilitation, integral part of the disappeared Buen Retiro Real Palace and former headquarters of the Army Museum, assigned formally to the Prado National Museum in October of 2015.
Back elevation. Rendering. El Prado Extension, "El Salón de Reinos" proposal by Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos. Image courtesy of Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos.
Main elevation, access. Rendering. El Prado Extension, "El Salón de Reinos" proposal by Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos. Image courtesy of Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos.
Rendering. El Prado Extension, "El Salón de Reinos" proposal by Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos. Image courtesy of Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos.
Rendering. El Prado Extension, "El Salón de Reinos" proposal by Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos. Image courtesy of Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos.
Overview. Rendering. El Prado Extension, "El Salón de Reinos" proposal by Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos. Image courtesy of Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos.
Board 1. El Prado Extension, "El Salón de Reinos" proposal by Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos. Image courtesy of Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos.
Board 2. El Prado Extension, "El Salón de Reinos" proposal by Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos. Image courtesy of Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos.
Board 3. El Prado Extension, "El Salón de Reinos" proposal by Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos. Image courtesy of Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos.
Board 4. El Prado Extension, "El Salón de Reinos" proposal by Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos. Image courtesy of Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos.
Board 5. El Prado Extension, "El Salón de Reinos" proposal by Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos. Image courtesy of Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos.
"Thus, it is proposed to eliminate the enlargements made during the twentieth century, among other reasons, given its low constructive quality."
The winning proposal turned out to be the one presented under the slogan "Trace Hidden" presented by Norman Foster and Carlos Rubio studios. The competition was attended by a wide and concurred cast of architects, in a competition procedure, in which 47 architectural teams took part, that developed in two phases. The first, fully open, ended up in June with the selection of eight teams.
Among this selection of finalists was the proposal of the Spanish team Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos, which took part in the contest without partners.
The Museo del Prado will be exhibiting the winning proposal and those of the other 7 teams of finalists from 1 December. The interesting proposal by Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos on METALOCUS is below.
Description of project by Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos
HALL OF REALMS OF THE BUEN RETIRO ROYAL PALACE
The building should not be referred to as Hall of Realms, since the only part that keeps its original condition is the inside. It would be more accurate to say that the former Army Museum should be remodeled.
The building we found is the result of a series of interventions along many centuries, from its construction in the early 17th, to the last intervention in the second half of the 20th century.
We decided first to eliminate those less valuable elements, as the mansard roof floor built back in 1905 and the central bay in the south side in order to introduce later the suitable modificationsto adapt the building to the new requirements.
The elimination of the referred partsendows the building with better clarity both functionally and formally. This leads us to take the exhibition program of 1.600 m2, the smaller of the surfaces requested in the Program.
The bay in the south side is replaced by a construction able to hold the new access point and welcome areas in its ground floor and the cafeteria and the bookstorein its first floor. Gathering the most important elements of the project, this new part of the building tries to house the functions that could hardly be included in the existing one.
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Architects
Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos.- Antonio Cruz y Antonio Ortiz. Giordano Baly, Pablo Ortiz, Rodrigo Ruiz, Juan Bautista García, Julia Sevilla, Juan Carlos Mulero, Berta M. García, Rosa Melero
Venue
9 Méndez nuñez St. Madrid, Spain
Client
Prado Museum
Program
Museum
Restoration and conservation
Pilar Soler y Carlos Núñez
Engineering
CLIMA: IS Ingenieros – Juan Manuel Baños
Budget
€ 30,000,000 (year 2016)
Surface
Plot.- 3,345 sqm
Built.- 5,113 sqm
Antonio Cruz, Antonio Ortiz. CRUZ Y ORTIZ ARQUITECTOS
Architects Antonio Cruz and Antonio Ortiz started their professional careers in 1971, after graduating from Escuela Superior de Arquitectura in Madrid. In addition to the transformation of the Rijksmuseum, their most well-known projects include the new Atletico de Madrid Stadium, which will also be the new Olympic Stadium if the Madrid 2020 Olympic bid is successful (due for completion in 2016); the Spanish Pavilion at the Hannover 2000 Expo; the Cartuja Stadium in Seville (1999); the extension to the SBB Railway Station in Basel, Switzerland (2003); Seville Public Library (1999); the Stadium of the Community of Madrid(2012); the Huelva Bus Station (1994); Santa Justa Railway Station in Seville (1991); and a housing project on Dona Maria Coronel Street, Seville (1976).
In 2002 Cruz y Ortiz opened a studio in Amsterdam, and the firm's other Dutch projects include the Atelier Building (Rijksmuseum - Amsterdam, 2007), residences Patio Sevilla (Ceramique - Maastricht, 2000) and Java-eiland (Amsterdam, 1994).
Antonio Cruz and Antonio Ortiz have been visiting professors at the Lausanne and Zurich polytechnics as well as at Cornell and Columbia universities and at the Escuela de Arquitectura de Pamplona. They have held the Kenzo Tange Professorship at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, and since 2004 have been honorary professors at the Universidad de Sevilla and occupied the Catedra Blanca at the Escuela de Arquitectura. Antonio Cruz and Antonio Ortiz have received, among others, the Premio Nacional de Arquitectura Espanola, the Premio Ciudad de Sevilla, the Premio Ciudad de Madrid, the Brunei 92 International Award, the Premio Construmat and the Premio de la Fundacion C.E.O.E. On two occasions, they have been runners-up for the Mies van der Rohe Award. In 1997 they were awarded the Gold Medal of Andalusia for their work in the field of architecture, and in 2008 they obtained the Premio Andalucia de Arquitectura for the Basel Railway Station extension.
