Rivas Vaciamadrid Youth Center / Mi5 Arquitectos
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Architects: Mi5 Arquitectos – Manuel Collado Arpia y Nacho Martín Asunción
Location: Rivas-Vaciamadrid, Madrid, Spain
Collaborators: Eider Holgado, Richar y Diego Barajas
Engineering: Juan Travesí (Estructuras)
Contractor: Dragados
Project Area: 1.834 sqm
Budget: 2.344.502 €
Project Year: 2006
Construction Year: 2009
Photographs: Miguel de Guzmán
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.
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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”.
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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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Arquitetura de Origami, por Mi5 Arquitectos: http://bit.ly/4o7W13 (via @archdaily )
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horrible
really, really bad … looks like scene from music video from early 90s :/
jaja, you`re right. look that
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32sslXsAUas
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I guess nowadays youth means crazy
…contemporary “social monument”
…punk spirit of Rivas Vaciamadrid? i’d like to see that, but i’m sure it does not look like an explosion of strawberry and orange cake.
WTF!?! this building scares me…
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well I think it’s a bit scary but it could make a nice After party place not like Madrid needs more After but it could be a great use for that
Barbie’s House now?
Doubt it. Not as long as Barbie has eyes.
http://tinyurl.com/yz5vuje un edificio muy lindo los colores
Career suicide?
This is terrible.
Even looking objectively, rather than subjectively of the aesthetic, this is awful.
May I be the tenth to add to the chorus of disapproval? This looks like the product of someone OD-ing on sketchup, working in triangles without any thought to the pointlessness of those acute angles. I pity the cleaner who as to get in that 15′ gap coming to a point up on that gallery level. Its what happens when people just pull nodes around without thinking about construction or use. As for the colour palette, it reminds me of a scary pinball machine in a dimly lit arcade. The fact that its trying to be jolly and jaunty actually backfires, its scary in the way that Child’s Play is – it looks macabre and menacing behinds its failed attempt at joviality.
And to think someone had to pay 2.3m EUR for that!
This monstrosity of a brain fart is woven entirely from uncountable lumps of rubbish, but those completely rancid mesh panels in front of the windows have to be the stand-out piece of laughing-stock design in this project.
What was running through the veins of the person that conceived that joke!? I don’t have enough negative vocabulary to do the star on the roof justice!
Colorful: Rivas Vaciamadrid Youth Center. http://bit.ly/5yDjgx
THE QUESTION IS THAT THIS EOPLE HAD THE DESING FROM LONG TIME AGO AND NOW THEY SAW THE CHANCE TO BUILD IT AND THATS WHY IT’S SO OUTMODE
That doesn’t excuse the design. It is still what it is – terrible design. It’s not out of it’s time, it’s just inexcusably poor.
If anything, it’s even more appalling that the designers looked back at the design after some time and didn’t see how terrible it is!
Oh i really like this project! It’s maybe provocative with the sharp edges and the colour scheme, but it’s giving the ‘youth’ something strong to deal with or maybe something to identify with. I don’t like to judge a project in terms of ‘trendy’ or ‘out of mode’.
I don’t think this building is being judged solely on it’s aesthetic – even ignoring it’s appearance, (which is a bit pointless given how much aesthetic contributes to the quality of experience) and looking at the design in terms of spaces, it is very bad.
I think ‘Gee’ has already made this point above; this building isn’t being judged as ‘untrendy’ or ‘out of mode’ it is just an epic waste of 2.3m EUR.
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Furthermore, I think it is a really poor and generic architectural analysis that young people enjoy headache colour clashes and uncomfortable and poorly composed angles.
It might be true that young children are stimulated by bright primary colours – this fact has been horribly lost in translation somewhere. Do you really think that ‘youth’ do ‘identify with’ this building?
From the distance that we are judging/commenting on this project, it is very hard to predict what kind of spaces and colour schemes are going to be accepted by ‘the youth’, or at least by those who are visiting a youth-center. I think it’s a certain social class who’s the main ‘clientele’ for this kind of institution. My experience is that they aren’t really looking for some comfortable, cushiony, flowery, soul padding environment.
I would really be interested in how these young people see and accept their! center…
The concept seems a bit forced. Punk spirit? So where’s the center for goth spirit? Emo spirit?
i think its happy architecture but not successful in composition.
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one of the worst things I have seen in ages – and that says a great deal. bad! bad! bad!
This looks like a place I used to go to in the 80′s to play Lazer Quest. Truly awful, naive architecture
now that you mention it, i wanna play lazer quest…PEW PEW!!
You guys saying its scary… Fair enough, because u havent been there and explored the building yourself. It is amazing how great this building is, and it doesnt feel like an explosion, it feels great inside!!! If you only been inside…