San Lucas pavilion by FRPO

Summer is approaching and for these first warm days we bring a project to get close as possible to a refreshing pool. This pavilion at the foot of a pool intended to be a resounding box but transparent concrete, to make the most of nature.

FRPO, architects, study formed by Pablo Oriol and Fernando Rodriguez designed and built this building in record time. On the ruins of the old summerhouse demolished in 2011 put a structure in oversized concrete cantilever. A square collects all necessary recreational uses. It is certainly a project in a short time but in a correct invoice. It has been chosen, among other projects, to be shown at the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2016.

Description of the project by FRPO

This small pavilion is the product of a series of circumstances, needs and interests unexpectedly crystallized in the summer of 2013. Its final configuration largely responds to the implementation of a certain speed of response. The commission was signed in May, and the primary structure was already built in late July. The urgency required by the property greatly increased uncertainty about the variables that would define the process.

Thus, it was necessary to establish a system project flexible enough to assume changes during the building process but, on the other hand, with a strong and unequivocal character, in order not to leave the image of the building at the mercy of subsequent circumstances. Therefore, we decided to explore the possibility of building a ‘spatial field’ through a powerful and naked structure, imposing from the outset its own rules to other decisions. The building would be its own structure, oversized and brutalized to acquire from the very beginning a final character.

The Pavilion’s reinforced concrete structure is only 15 cm thick and is configured through seven screens and nine beams with a 15 x 105 cm cross section, suspended 215 cm above the ground. The pavilion encloses an area with a 11 x 11 meters’ square plan, at the boundary between a pine tree forest and meadow, and occupies the very same place where an old 50s pavilion stood until it was demolished in 2011.

The geometrical order of this ‘field’ follows those of other projects developed in the office. This structural canopy is organized in strips which are parallel to the direction that takes you from the forest to the prairie. This is reflected in the slab that provides support for the floor, which is punctured at some places to allow the vegetation to grow. Small brick boxes, independent from the structure, enclose the more specific functions, and also several parts are covered by a 45º folded metal sheet, offering protection from the rain.

The pavilion is transparent, but prominent, immediate in its materiality and flexible in use.

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Location floor plan. San Lucas pavilion by FRPO.

Main floor plan. San Lucas pavilion by FRPO.

Exploited axonometric. San Lucas pavilion by FRPO.

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FRPO. Rodriguez & Oriol ARCHITECTURE LANDSCAPE Pablo Oriol, Fernando Rodríguez.

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Collaborators

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Inés Olavarrieta, María Domínguez, Carmen Sanz.

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Area

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121 sqm.

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2014.

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Imagen Subliminal.

Fernando Rodríguez, Pablo Oriol. FRPO

FRPO (2008) is an architecture office based in Madrid directed by Fernando Rodriguez and Pablo Oriol, internationally recognized with the Architectural Record Design Vanguard (New York, 2012), Europe 40 under 40 (2009) and Bauwelt Preis (Berlin, 2007) awards, among others. Their work has also received prestigious awards, such as the selection for the Architectural Review Emerging Architecture Awards (2019), the FAD Awards (2019), the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2016, Golden Lion), the nomination for the Mies van der Rohe Awards (2015), the IX and XII Spanish Biennials of Architecture and Urbanism (2007 and 2013), or the V and IX Ibero-American Biennials of Architecture and Urbanism (2006 and 2014).

FRPO’s work has been widely published, and its proposals have been disseminated through articles, lectures, and frequent exhibitions, both nationally and internationally.

Trained as architects at the ETSAM in Madrid, at the IIT in Chicago and the TU Berlin, Pablo Oriol and Fernando Rodriguez are professors in the Department of Architectural Design at the ETSAM UPM, as well as regular guests at various national and foreign universities.

Fernando Rodríguez holds a PhD in Architecture since 2015. He studied architecture at UPM ETSAM in Madrid and at the Technische Universität Berlin, between 1995 and 2003. He has collaborated in MVRDV and has been Invited Critic with Kees Christiaanse at the TU Berlin. He worked as a project architect for Abalos & Herreros in 2004. He is a lecturer at the Architectural Design Department of UPM ETSAM and at the IE University.

Pablo Oriol studied architecture at UPM ETSAM and the IIT College of Architecture in Chicago, between 1995 and 2005. He was Cultural Activities Curator for the General Department of Architecture of the Ministry of Public Works for the ETSAM and the Cervantes Institute between 1999 and 2002. He was part of the redaction team of the magazine Arquitectura Viva in 2006. He is PhD candidate and lecturer at the Architectural Design Department of UPM ETSAM and at the IE University.

In 2005 Fernando Rodriguez and Pablo Oriol were founding partners of Nolaster Oficina de Arquitectura, where they developed their professional activity until 2007. In 2008 they established FRPO as a natural evolution of their previous professional experiences.

PABLO ORIOL

Pablo Oriol (Madrid 1977) Architect / Partner. He studied architecture at the Madrid Polytechnic ETSAM and at the Architecture College of the Illinois Institute of Technology of Chicago, between 1995 and 2005. He was Cultural Activities Curator for the General Department of Architecture of the Ministry of Public Works for the ETSAM and for the Cervantes Institute between 1999 and 2002. He is a PhD candidate at the Madrid Polytechnic ETSAM. He is Associate Professor at the Architectural Design Department of the Madrid Polytechnic ETSAM and at the IE School of Architecture.

In 2005 they become founder-associates with of Fernando Rodríguez Nolaster Oficina de Arquitectura, where they have developed their professional activity until 2007. In 2007 Pablo Oriol and Fernando Rodríguez establish FRPO, as a natural evolution of the work done until the date within Nolaster.

FERNANDO RODRÍGUEZ

Fernando Rodríguez (Albacete 1977) Architect / Partner. He studied architecture at the Madrid Polytechnic ETSAM and at the Technische Universität Berlin, between 1995 and 2003. In 2002 he has collaborated in MVRDV (Rotterdam) and has been Invited Critic with Kees Christiaanse at the TU Berlin. He has worked as projects architect for Abalos & Herrerros (Madrid) in 2004. He is a PhD candidate at the Madrid Polytechnic ETSAM. He is Associate Professor at the Architectural Design Department of the Madrid Polytechnic ETSAM and at the IE School of Architecture.

In 2005 they become founder-associates of Nolaster Oficina de Arquitectura, where they have developed their professional activity until 2007. In 2007 Fernando Rodríguez and Pablo Oriol establish FRPO, as a natural evolution of the work done until the date within Nolaster.

Published on: June 10, 2016

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