Proposal for El Prado Museum by Gluckman Tang + Álvarez-Sala + Enguita & Lasso de la Vega
30/11/2016.
[MAD] Spain
metalocus, CLAUDIA CENDOYA
metalocus, CLAUDIA CENDOYA
This entry to the competition for the renovation of El Prado Museum focuses on the optimization of flowings: visitors, pedestrians, works… from the emphasis on the building wraparound, overlapping a contemporary façade to the existing one, dating of the 17th century, and reconfiguring the street of Felipe IV as a walk.
Exterior. Proposal for El Prado Museum by Gluckman Tang Architects + Estudio Álvarez-Sala + Arquitectura Enguita & Lasso de la Vega. Image courtesy of Arquitectura Enguita & Lasso de la Vega.
Interior. Proposal for El Prado Museum by Gluckman Tang Architects + Estudio Álvarez-Sala + Arquitectura Enguita & Lasso de la Vega. Image courtesy of Arquitectura Enguita & Lasso de la Vega.
Interior. Proposal for El Prado Museum by Gluckman Tang Architects + Estudio Álvarez-Sala + Arquitectura Enguita & Lasso de la Vega. Image courtesy of Arquitectura Enguita & Lasso de la Vega.
Interior. Proposal for El Prado Museum by Gluckman Tang Architects + Estudio Álvarez-Sala + Arquitectura Enguita & Lasso de la Vega. Image courtesy of Arquitectura Enguita & Lasso de la Vega.
Interior. Proposal for El Prado Museum by Gluckman Tang Architects + Estudio Álvarez-Sala + Arquitectura Enguita & Lasso de la Vega. Image courtesy of Arquitectura Enguita & Lasso de la Vega.
Floor plan. Proposal for El Prado Museum by Gluckman Tang Architects + Estudio Álvarez-Sala + Arquitectura Enguita & Lasso de la Vega. Image courtesy of Arquitectura Enguita & Lasso de la Vega.
Transverse section. Proposal for El Prado Museum by Gluckman Tang Architects + Estudio Álvarez-Sala + Arquitectura Enguita & Lasso de la Vega. Image courtesy of Arquitectura Enguita & Lasso de la Vega.
Axonometric view. Proposal for El Prado Museum by Gluckman Tang Architects + Estudio Álvarez-Sala + Arquitectura Enguita & Lasso de la Vega. Image courtesy of Arquitectura Enguita & Lasso de la Vega.
Night view. Proposal for El Prado Museum by Gluckman Tang Architects + Estudio Álvarez-Sala + Arquitectura Enguita & Lasso de la Vega. Image courtesy of Arquitectura Enguita & Lasso de la Vega.
Exterior. Proposal for El Prado Museum by Gluckman Tang Architects + Estudio Álvarez-Sala + Arquitectura Enguita & Lasso de la Vega. Image courtesy of Arquitectura Enguita & Lasso de la Vega.
The team formed by Gluckman Tang Architects, Estudio Álvarez-Sala and Arquitectura Enguita & Lasso de la Vega proposes a new future for the El Prado Museum with a new large room with free floor and zenithal lighting that would house exhibitions of XXIth-century art. However, the past of the museum is not forgotten, as the proposal respects the old palace of the seventeenth century, where temporary exhibitions could be lodged in order to revitalize the building of El Salón de Reinos [Hall of Realms] and to relieve some pressure of visitors on the main building of El Prado Museum.
Description of the project by Gluckman Tang Architects, Estudio Álvarez-Sala and Arquitectura Enguita & Lasso de la Vega
01. THE WALK OF FELIPE IV
The axis that orders the new Prado Campus
The urban proposal aims to configure the Prado Campus by a "landscaping" action along the Felipe IV Street, an exceptional baroque axis of the city and the original and natural place of access to the Prado Museum.
The street of Felipe IV would thus become the new "Paseo" [walk], a new park-street, as it was firstly meant by "Paseo", which would be a kind of extension of the Paseo del Prado and would print its own character, facilitating its understanding and adding an accessing order to the future "Prado Campus".
02. SALÓN DE REINOS [Hall of Realms]
New space for temporary exhibitions
The project contemplates the possibility of transferring the temporary exhibitions of the Prado Museum to this new headquarters, so as to guarantee the influx of visitors to the Salón de Reinos building and at the same time to reduce the pressure of visitors on the current headquarters.
This possibility makes it necessary to consider flexibility as one of the essential factors in the design of the project.
With this transformation, the headquarters of the building by Villanueva would see its current services improved, increasing its space for collections and other uses.
03. RENOVATION AND ENLARGEMENT
Clarity of volumes at the seventeenth, nineteenth and twenty-first centuries
The framework of the action is defined by the maximum respect to the old palace of the seventeenth century - with an external and internal rehabilitation-, the use of the annexed palaces of the nineteenth century as intermediaries -external rehabilitation- and the inclusion of an atrium and a new high floor as new and identifiable volumetries of the twenty-first century. This differentiation is also translated to the application of facade materials, both in the exterior and the interior, of the historic building.
04. THE EXHIBITION
Gallery of the XVII century and gallery of the XXI century
The new venue would be a faithful reflection of the past and the future of the Prado Museum then: the past would be represented by The Royal Hall, the best art gallery in Europe and the world as early as the seventeenth century; and the future would be performed by the new large contemporary room: an art gallery of the 21st century, with height, free floor, overhead lighting and maximum flexibility as an exhibition space.
In short, a set of first-class exhibition halls that will allow the Museum to make a great leap into the future.
05. THE ATRIUM
Access and routes
The old addition of the southern façade is demolished to provide an adequate access space for the new Prado Museum. The atrium - reception area - becomes the project's most representative element, an intermediate place from which to observe the historical façade and the new one, and place from which to start the routes to all the exhibitions.
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Architects
Gluckman Tang Architects + Estudio Álvarez-Sala + Arquitectura Enguita & Lasso de la Vega
Architectonic renovation
Pedro Moleón Gavilanes
Restoration
Ana Laborde Marqueze
Architect specialized in urbanism and public spaces
Fernando Porras-Isla
Engineering and systems consultors
Arup Engineering
Enrique ÁLVAREZ-SALA
Enrique Álvarez-Sala Enrique Álvarez-Sala Walther graduated from the Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM) in 1977. After completing his studies, he pursued a career in architecture while also teaching at various universities.
His positions have included Associate Professor in the Construction Department ETSAM (between 1983 and 2004), Representative of Associate Professors in the Senate of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (1995/6 & 2003/4), Visiting Professor at the European University of Madrid and he currently teaches construction at the University of Castilla-La Mancha. He has acted as a judge and speaker at a large number of both national and international architecture events and conferences.
He has worked with architects Ignacio Vicens Hualde, César Ruiz-Larrea and Carlos Rubio Carvajal. As Rubio & Álvarez-Sala he built the SyV Tower in the former Ciudad Deportiva del Real Madrid; the residential tower in the ‘Isla Chamartín’; and the urban redevelopment alongside the Manzanares river in Madrid (in co-operation with Burgos & Garrido, Porras & La Casta and West 8). All of these projects won prizes in architecture competitions.
His work has been selected for the Venice Biennale of Architecture (2004) and has won several awards, including: the COAVN Architecture Award (1999), the COAM Architecture Prize (1989), the City of Madrid Award New Homes (1992 and 1996), the City of Alcalá de Henares Architecture Prize (2003), theOmnibus Prize for Contemporary Architecture in Castilla-La Mancha (2006) and Distinction COAM to the Work of Architects (2009). In addition, his career has also been recognized in various publications and exhibitions.
His positions have included Associate Professor in the Construction Department ETSAM (between 1983 and 2004), Representative of Associate Professors in the Senate of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (1995/6 & 2003/4), Visiting Professor at the European University of Madrid and he currently teaches construction at the University of Castilla-La Mancha. He has acted as a judge and speaker at a large number of both national and international architecture events and conferences.
He has worked with architects Ignacio Vicens Hualde, César Ruiz-Larrea and Carlos Rubio Carvajal. As Rubio & Álvarez-Sala he built the SyV Tower in the former Ciudad Deportiva del Real Madrid; the residential tower in the ‘Isla Chamartín’; and the urban redevelopment alongside the Manzanares river in Madrid (in co-operation with Burgos & Garrido, Porras & La Casta and West 8). All of these projects won prizes in architecture competitions.
His work has been selected for the Venice Biennale of Architecture (2004) and has won several awards, including: the COAVN Architecture Award (1999), the COAM Architecture Prize (1989), the City of Madrid Award New Homes (1992 and 1996), the City of Alcalá de Henares Architecture Prize (2003), theOmnibus Prize for Contemporary Architecture in Castilla-La Mancha (2006) and Distinction COAM to the Work of Architects (2009). In addition, his career has also been recognized in various publications and exhibitions.
Luis Enguita, Paloma Lasso de la Vega. Enguita and Lasso de la Vega
Luis Enguita and Paloma Lasso de la Vega are both architects graduated from Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid.
The studio Enguita & Lasso de la Vega is characterized by developing three different but convergent working lines. The first and principal is the one related to professional architecture works, building and restoration projects, and architectural competitions, where they have achieved wide recognition and won important prizes. The second one is related to art and museography specialization, artist collaborations, design and exhibition curation. Finally, a third one related to investigation, theoretical texts, doctoral courses and book publishing.
Richard Gluckman - Dana Tang GLUCKMAN TANG
Richard Gluckman has occupied a special place in the world of art and design, since he established his architectural practice in New York City in 1977, creating distinctive spaces and buildings for artists, public arts institutions, art foundations, galleries and art collectors. In recent years, Gluckman has applied his unique design sensibility, informed by decades of collaboration with artists and curators, to projects for universities, resorts, developers and private clients. Gluckman’s design approach is defined by an emphasis on architecture as an experiential opportunity; as a frame for art and human activity.
Richard Gluckman has been a visiting critic and lecturer at Harvard University, Yale University, University of Pennsylvania, Parsons The New School for Design, and Syracuse University. He is a recipient of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award, and the Interior Design Hall of Fame Award. He has served on the boards of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Van Alen Institute. He currently serves on the board of Socrates Sculpture Park.
Gluckman received a Bachelor of Architecture and a Master of Architecture from Syracuse University’s School of Architecture. He received the George Arents Award from Syracuse University in 2006, and he was Chair of the University’s School of Architecture Advisory Board from 2003 - 2014.
Dana Tang joined Richard Gluckman in 1995 and became his partner in 2015. Tang has provided design and project leadership on many of the firm’s most notable projects, in a variety of types and scales. Tang brings a particular expertise in programming, planning and pre-design to all projects, while maintaining the highest level of design excellence and client service. She has been a LEED Accredited Professional for ten years and is deeply committed to building environmentally-responsible buildings.
As lead architect on many of the firm’s celebrated projects, including Mii amo Spa in Sedona, Arizona; the Philadelphia Museum of Art Perelman Building; and the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Tang has applied her unique and broad perspective, gained through a multi-disciplinary background, to the process of design and to her collaboration with clients and consultants. In recent years, Tang has spearheaded the firm’s presence in China, securing and leading the design of three major museums in Shanghai and Hangzhou.
Tang received a Master of Architecture from Yale University and a Master of Regional Studies – East Asia from Harvard University.
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