The proposal of the
Spanish pavilion, curated by architects
Iñaqui Carnicero and
Carlos Quintáns, try to responds to the mission statement of the Chilean architect
Alejandro Aravena, the curator of the 15.
Mostra Internazionale di Architettura – La Biennale di Venezia, who aims to present a combative and decisive architecture that managed to solve the major challenges the world is facing today.
The projects selected by the Spanish Pavilion for the exhibition are grouped with concepts such as reassignment, adaptability or reappropriation, among others, offering a vision of how the Spanish architects have reflected and reacted with new strategies.
"Next Sunday we will analysis in greater depth the contents and thematic of the pavilion"
The exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2016 will remain open from 26 May to 27 November 2016.
The exhibition is divided into four areas which deal about the pavilion’s theme:
7 photographic series
55 selected works
12 selected entries from the open competition
11 interviews will fill with graphic and intellectual content the Spanish pavilion
Photograpic series
The 7 photographic series will make visible a reality that could remain hidden, while evidencing processes disrupted by periods of time longer that normal or changes in the nature of work. In the same time, the series will make the visitor reflect on the outcome of this construction frenzy and the relationship it had with the financial crisis:
Selected works
The side rooms will be used to exhibit the 55 selected works out of the 550 submissions. The projects do not deal with neither scale nor with their situation but with the strategies which architects put into play as a response to the built environment as explained before. Far from being a style, the exhibition confirms that these processes and methods have resulted in new architectures which have been able to adapt to new economic, social or environmental demands and especially of transformation. These projects are catalogued in the following categories:
CONSOLIDATE
CONVENTO DE SANTA MARÍA DE LOS REYES
MGM Morales de Giles Arquitectos
RE-HABITAR
Profesores y alumnos de la escuela de arquitectura de Toledo, Universidad de Castilla- La Mancha
RESTAURACIÓN DE LA ANTIGUA IGLESIA DE CORBERA D’EBRE
Ferran Vizoso, Núria Bordas, Jordi Garriga, David Garcia
CASA INTERMEDIA
Carmen Moreno Álvarez
REAPROPIATION
ADAPTABLE
CINE LIDIA
Núria Salvadó y David Tapias
CASA LUZ
ARQUITECTURA-G (Jonathan Arnabat, Jordi Ayala-Bril, Aitor Fuentes, Igor Urdampilleta)
ESPAI NOU A CASA NOVA
Toni Gelabert Amengual, Néstor Montenegro Mateos (EXTUDIO)
ALL I OWN HOUSE
PKMN architecture
SUSALOON
ELII: Uriel Fogué + Eva Gil + Carlos Palacios
CASA DENTRO DE UNA CASA
Josep Ferrando
NAKED
CASA OE
Fake Industries Architectural Agonism (Cristina Goberna, Urtzi Grau) + aixopluc (David Tapias)
PABELLÓN DE SAN LUCAS
FRPO Rodriguez & Oriol Arquitectos (Pablo Oriol, Fernando Rodríguez)
PISCINA EN MACEDA
trespes.arquitectos: Alberte Pérez Rodríguez, Carlos Mosquera del Palacio, Enrique Iglesias Lima
ESCUELA EN LA MILAGROSA
Pereda Pérez Arquitectos. Carlos Pereda Iglesias y Óscar Pérez Silanes
PUNTO DE INFORMACIÓN DE GLORIES
peris+toral.arquitectes : Marta Peris Eugenio , José Manuel Toral , Izaskun González
PERCHING
INFILL
REASSIGNMENTS
HÁBITAT ALMACÉN
Ferran Grau Valldosera, Nicola Regusci, Xavier Bustos Serrat
AUZO FACTORY IRAZÁBAL-MATIKO
Suárez Santas Arquitectos. Asier Santas Torres y Luis Suárez Mansilla
GUIDES
PAVEMENTS
REMODELACIÓN DEL PUERTO DE MALPICA
CreuseCarrasco. Juan Creus Andrade / Covadonga Carrasco López
ENTORNO DEL MERCADO DEL BORN
Vora Arquitectura (Pere Buil y Toni Riba)
MIRADOR PEDRA DA RÁ
Carlos Seoane
TURÓ DE LA ROVIRA
Jansana, de la Villa, de Paauw arquitectes SLP, AAUP Jordi Romero associats SLP
Selected entries from the open competition
The architectural graphic display will finish with the exhibition of the results of the open competition held by the pavilion which aimed to search for unpublished projects which respond to the theme proposed. Out of the 108 submissions the jury, composed by Iñaqui Carnicero and Carlos Quintáns as curators of the exhibitions and by the pavilion’s scientific committee (Santiago de Molina, Jacobo García-Germán and Ángel Martínez García-Posada) made a first selection of 20 projects.
Out of these finalists, the jury chose 8 winners and 4 mentions that will not only be part of the exhibition but whose authors will explain their projects in public as part of the pavilion’s activities.
WINNERS
- ARQUINAUTAS DE LA COSMOPISTA
Víctor Manuel Cano Ciborro, Alejandro Burgueño Diaz, José Manuel de Andrés Moncayo, Ana Sabugo Sierra, José Javier Cullen Afonso y Rocío Romero Rivas
- BISAGRAS
Diego Lucio Barral y Sarai Cancela Cundíns
- EL CUENTO DE LA ARQUITECTURA Y LOS REFUGIADOS
OOIIO, Joaquín Millán Villamuelas
- EL PATIO TRAS EL INCENDIO
Juan Antonio Serrano García y Paloma Baquero Masats
- INTERVENCIÓN EN UNA RUINA DE LA ALHAMBRA
Alejandro Infantes Pérez
- LA CADENA DE CRISTAL
Jesús Vasallo, Andrea Gimeno, Lluís Juan Liñán, Josep Vicent Lluch, Mayte Gómez, Marta Jarabo, Sálvora Feliz, Ángel Gallego, José Mato, Patricia Ocaña, Beatriz Martínez, Quique Bayarri, Felipe Reyno y Tomás Pineda
- LA RUTA MÁS ASTUTA
Leire Calvillo Mendoza y Ramón Cuesta González de la Aleja
- RECYCLING ALMAR
Juan Moreno Romero, Siddartha Rodrigo Clua y Francesco Miele
MENTIONS
- ECOTECHNOHUB
Diego García Setién y Silvia Sánchez González
- PAISAJES EN RUINA. RUINA MODERNA
Gádor Potenciano Enciso
- TIPOLOGÍAS DESPLAZADAS
Pablo Blazquez Jesús
- UNITED TERRITORIES OF FAILAND
Lucía Andreu Gómez, Ramón Cuesta González-De la Aleja y Clara González Fernández
Interviews
Last, but not least, in the last space of the pavilion behind the central space and between the side spaces, a continuous projection will show the interviews about ‘Unfinished’ as well as about Spanish architecture. These short interviews will share with the visitor thoughts and reflections from the following renowned personalities:
AMALE ANDRAOS, Dean at Columbia University
KENNETH FRAMPTON, Full Professor at Columbia University
SARAH WHITING, Dean at Rice University
ANDREA SIMITCH, Associate Professor at Cornell University
SOU FUJIMOTO, Architect
BARRY BERGDOL, Ex main curator MoMA
VAL WARKE, Associate Professor at Cornell University
JORGE SILVETTI, Full Professor at Harvard GSD
NADER TEHRANI, Dean of Cooper Union
MEIJEEN YOON, Chair MIT
MARTINO STIERLI, Chef Curator MoMA
The pavilion also organizes various activities taking place during the Biennale: conferences, workshops for students of architecture, discussions, debates and presentations will be held inside and outside the pavilion.