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From the beginning, the project was conceived as the possibility of making the ?underground? visible, a construction devised as a radical manifestation of Madrid?s outskirts youthful spirit in general, and of Rivas´ youth groups in particular.
Courtesy of Mi5 Arquitectos
The project aspires to become an explicit ?teen? communication vehicle by appropriating their language and their voices as the ingredients of the project. In this way, the project?s team embraces all Rivas?s youth groups by means of an open participation process, in which the future users of the centre, combined with technicians and politicians, will contribute their decisions, their concerns, their fantasies and their aesthetics to create a contemporary ?social monument?. Courtesy of Mi5 Arquitectos – floor plan
Courtesy of Mi5 Arquitectos
The end result of this process is a public structure with a punk spirit, intensely burdened with content and articulated around programmatic centres conceived as activity explosions, which are erected as meeting and exchange points of the emerging communities.
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Project Info :
Architects : Mi5 Arquitectos

Project Year : 2009

Budget : 2.344.502 ?

Contractor : Dragados

Project Area : 1834.0 sqm

Engineering : Juan Travesí (Estructuras)

Project Location : Rivas-Vaciamadrid, Madrid, Spain

Collaborators : Eider Holgado, Richar y Diego Barajas

Project Architects : Manuel Collad...