“Madrid from the clouds”
Competition For Prize Schindler of Architecture 2013/2014 " To the solutions of mobility / accessibility "




Year: 2013
Location: Madrid (Spain)
Client: Schindler
Area: 220 m²
Program: Leisure/Cultural
Result: Finalist
The mobility and elements of communication Schindler Company called for the following contest, without an exact location or concrete program, except for the fact of settling the problematics of accessibility and the use of some of his products. This way, the possibility of combining these guidelines with some architectural elements for it to be able to recover. For it focussed on the sight of Moncloa’s current beacon, in disuse for years. The intervention supports the sign of identity of the uprightness of the existing building along with the atmosphere os these views.
At the same time iwe mimetyze with the enivronment, burying the low zone of the building, covering the glass elevators that reflect the environment and generating a top platform from the one that will divide a steam clous that imitates the real clouds tat are around the building. To develop the visual mobiles according to the moment, a few frames are donte to condense the steam allowing the vision through them.