Preliminary Project of the New Headquarters of the College of Architects of Madrid (Madrid) 2005

We propose to build a building from the public space. The public space should be important in this action. Let’s create a public space that provokes reflection and allows for thinking. No, to the public space that only responds to visual complacency. Architecture appears as pure elements. They are mineralized trees that will house the proposed uses. The uses will adapt to the built elements with no other secrets than the skill to configure suggestive and exciting spaces, from their relationship with the public space and without losing sight of the inevitable connections and references to the magnificent existing baroque facade. The tree trunks form the vertical communication cores. Between the “trees,” light filters creating a set of reflections and reflections that qualify and energize the space.