[IV] Winners of the 2012 ar+d Emerging Awards.

The Architectural Review has shared with us the winners of the 2012 ar+d (the Architectural Review + d line) Emerging Architecture Award for young professionals under the age of 45. Engaging with an emerging generation of architects, the ar+d Awards capture a spirit of creative resilience and present a unique insight into the critical preoccupations that will shape the future of architecture.

Red Bull Music Academy by Langarita-Navarro, Madrid, Spain. Photography © Luis Diaz Diaz. Courtesy of Architectural Review. Single room cabins wrapped in plywood skins contain music workshops and offices. These are arranged along the edges of the structure’s central ‘naves’. The exteriors of the workshop cabins are finished in 20mm-thick plywood sheets and to absorb vibrations, the architects raised the cabins off the ground on trusses assembled from metal studs.

Red Bull Music Academy, Langarita Navarro, Spain.

Japan’s devastating earthquake in March of last year forced the cancellation of the Red Bull Music Academy, scheduled to open that same month in Tokyo. The Academy is an annual music festival, with workshops and concerts, that brings together 60 young musicians, DJs and producers from around the world selected from some 6,000 applicants.

Red Bull decided to reschedule the event for Madrid in October. With the cooperation of the municipal government, they found a home in the Matadero, a new cultural centre that is taking shape in the city’s former slaughterhouses, a complex of masonry-clad industrial sheds built by municipal architect Luis Bellido between 1907 and 1926. The site for the Academy was a derelict building with dirt floors and unglazed windows, built as a holding pen for pigs and unused for decades.

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Red Bull Music Academy by Langarita-Navarro, Madrid, Spain. Photography © Luis Diaz Diaz. Courtesy of Architectural Review. There are open spaces for concerts and social gatherings, surrounded by vegetation − potted trees and ground cover tiered in artificial berms − as well as hidden corners for private time.

Red Bull Music Academy by Langarita-Navarro, Madrid, Spain. Photography © Luis Diaz Diaz. Courtesy of Architectural Review. Irregular faceted domes (to break up sound) are finished in the vividly-patterned fabrics traditionally used for window awnings in Madrid. Flat sections of the roof are filled with translucent polycarbonate sheets.

Red Bull Music Academy by Langarita-Navarro, Madrid, Spain. Courtesy of Architectural Review. Under one nave, two larger circular pavilions house a recording studio, lecture hall and canteen…The architects secured the building’s openings with chicken wire, and consolidated the earthen floors, converting the structure into a kind of giant shading device. The result is something like a Club Med version of a village in the bush.

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MARÍA LANGARITA, VÍCTOR NAVARRO. Langarita - Navarro

María Langarita (1979) is architect graduate from Universidad de Navarra, awarded with the Premio Nacional Fin de Carrera. She has been associate lecturer at the Architectural Projects Departament, at the Universidad de Navarra and at the ETSA Madrid, and as lecturer at the ETSAZ, Zaragoza, Spain. Víctor Navarro (1979) is architect graduate from the ETSA Madrid, he actually works as lecturer in Architectural Projects at the Universidad Europea de Madrid. They are both now developing their doctorate thesis. At the same time, Víctor Navarro together with Roberto González are co-founders of Urgente, defined as an aperiodic publication for the dissemination of documents that may be of current interest.

They work together since 2005. They have been prize winners in several competitions, among which the following could be highlighted: the renovation of the Nave 15 at Matadero Madrid to become the Red Bull Music Academy 2011, second prize at the international competition for the ARCO Actual Art Center in Madrid, first prize at the Intermediae/Prado international competition in Madrid, in an advanced stage of construction nowadays, and their work has been selected to be exhibited in different places and events like the XI BEAU Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Bienale (Comillas, Madrid, 2011), YAP Space Maxxi Roma (2011), XI Bienale Venezia (2008), FreshForward in Madrid (2007), 44 International Young Architects (travelling exhibition, Barcelona, 2007), and at the RojoMáquina Gallery, Madrid (2007). They also have been invited to a number of conferences and workshops, and they also have been jury in the Santo Domingo Bienale.

Published on: November 27, 2012

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