Inside La Casa Encendida, ENORME Studio has designed The Melting Sun, an access space inside the center inspired by the center's versatility and its hybridization of uses and functions, wanting to make this space a similarity of proximity and digital actuality with the schedules and the large number of activities that take place inside.

La Casa Encendida is a characteristic point of the city of Madrid both artistically and culturally, where you can go dancing, read a book, attend a workshop among many other activities, thus having a great impact on the area and the surroundings. And it is this combination that we want to extrapolate to the access point as an introduction to all of the above.
The Melting Sun is the new access point to La Casa Encendida, a space designed by ENORME Studio, based on technology, digital design, and networks through screens or configurable colored LED lights occupying the entire wall and creating color games with the other elements.

But undoubtedly the highlight of this space as a whole is the staging of a large reflective steel digital circle that combines with LEDs to create visual experiences with both artificial and natural light, in addition to offering various information from day today. day, function as an exhibitor, and store data.
 

Description of project by ENORME Studio

La Casa Encendida is one of the epicenters of Madrid's artistic and cultural tissue. It is one of those very few centers that truly combines the essence of an experimental artistic center of reference with a series of services, workshops, and intergenerational cultural contents, while also having a great impact in the neighborhood ... some girls come prepared to let their feet dance at an art and music festival on the terrace and they come across a lady with her grandson who come from consulting some books in the library after having attended a workshop on how to make dioramas.

This miscegenation and hybridization is what ENORME Studio has worked with in the design of access to the center. First, reusing a screen display, which the LCE already had, turning it into a large expanded mobile screen, a communicator on a collective scale.

In addition, LCE is a proximity center, a digital context, and a community, so this display shows daily and simple information such as center hours and activities while the space is flooded with LCE's digital identity on the networks.

Embracing this digital device, a large circle appears, a sun, made of reflective steel, which projects subtle reflections of the flow and movement of people entering and leaving the space as well as the incidence of streetlight. The sun builds an entrance, a welcome metaphor and frames an information point that hybridizes the proximity of physical media with the impact of digital access.

The piece explores three-dimensional geometries and visual games with the aim of solving day-to-day needs in a singular way: a workspace, an accessible information desk, a display of publications, storage for communication material, etc.

Lastly, a three-dimensional beam of light, made from a composition of configurable colored LED tubes tensed from the wall to the ceiling, outlines the entire set to achieve visibility from the outside. Thus, from a distance, you already know that you have finally arrived at La Casa Encendida.

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ENORME Studio, founded in Madrid in 2016, is the evolution of three co-founders of PKMN Architectures: Carmelo Rodríguez, Rocío Pina and David Pérez. After collaborating for ten years on more than a hundred projects, they have launched this new shared initiative that maintains the same radical approach to architecture. They design and build architectural projects based on industrial systems and typological innovation.

They specialize in the design of mobile systems applied to housing, workspace, and commerce. They have transformed the traditional concept of living into architecture, creating spaces that are easily transformed through simple gestures. They design and implement participatory dynamics in the field of city construction through their creative services platform CIUDAD CREA CIUDAD and the creation of CITIZEN BRAND IDENTITIES. Their goal is to promote alternative ways of addressing urban issues and motivate the creation of a proactive civic culture. They design and apply "Tactical Urbanism" tools that translate teamwork strategies and collective thinking dynamics into the design and management of public and private spaces. Their goal is to return the city to its citizens as an emotional, plural, and relational space.

Among their most notable projects is their collaboration on the Spanish Pavilion for Expo 2025 Osaka, alongside Néstor Montenegro and Smart and Green Design. Selected through a public competition organized by Acción Cultural Española, their proposal, under the motto "The Kuroshio Current," seeks to connect Spain and Japan through a comprehensive experience that combines architecture, art, design, gastronomy, and outreach, using sustainable and low-impact materials.

Other recent projects include the flexible Beyome home in Madrid, a modular system that allows rooms to be reconfigured according to the needs of the inhabitants, and the installation The Theory of Cherries, a playful and colorful proposal that encourages interaction and reflection on public spaces.

ENORME Studio has been recognized for its innovation and commitment to sustainability, participating in various competitions and receiving mentions in specialized publications. Its interdisciplinary and participatory approach continues to position it as a benchmark in contemporary Spanish architecture.

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Published on: May 29, 2021
Cite: "Digital gate. The Melting Sun by ENORME Studio" METALOCUS. Accessed
<http://www.metalocus.es/en/news/digital-gate-melting-sun-enorme-studio> ISSN 1139-6415
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