Congress Center and Auditorio Plasencia

source: plataformaarquitecturacl

El Serpentine Gallery Pavilion ha crecido para convertirse en una de las atracciones arquitectónicas anuales más visitadas del mundo y actualmente tiene como objetivo entregarle a arquitectos que jamás han construido en el Reino Unido a tener su primera oportunidad de lograrlo. En el pasado, esto ha llevado a presentar pabellones diseñados por arquitectos reconocidos globalmente, tales como Frank Ghery, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Óscar Niemeyer y Peter Zumthor. No obstante, en el último tiempo, ha habido un golpe de timón que ha permitido enfocarse en arquitectos menos reconocidos, pero no por eso de menos valor en la disciplina.

Esto fue un hecho en el caso de Smijan Radic y su pabellón diseñado por 2014, y probablemente será también realidad para la dupla española de José Selgas y Lucía Cano, quienes están detrás de Selgas Cano, la oficina que se hará cargo de la edición 2015 del pabellón.

Aunque el diseño de la edición 2015 del pabellón no será revelado hasta febrero, SelgasCano ha prometido “usar sólo un material… la Transparencia (sic)”, añadiendo que “se necesitará la más avanzada tecnología para complir esa transparencia”. Esta tímida, pero seductora descripción quizás recuerda el diseño de su propia oficina, un tubo parcialmente hundido y con una fachada completamente de cristal curvo, lo que les permitió recibir un amplio reconocimiento en 2009.

Para hacerse una mejor idea del estilo del diseño que SelgasCano entregará en 2015, hemos reunido una serie de sus principales proyectos para vuestro placer, después del salto..
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source: designotemainjp

2015年のサーペンタイン・ギャラリーのパビリオンのデザイナーが、マドリードを拠点にする建築設計事務所、セルガス・カーノ（selgas cano）に決定しました。サーペンタイン・ギャラリー・パビリオンは毎年世界から一線で活躍する建築家やアーティストを起用して建設され話題となるイベントです。

セルガス・カーノは自由なプランや独自の造形や素材、ルイス・バラガンに影響を受けたという色使いの作品で知られています。上の画像は森の中にあるセルガス・カーノのオフィス。.
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source: theguardian

A low-lying acrylic box glows in the woods outside Madrid like a futuristic polytunnel. Half submerged in the forest floor, it is an unlikely container in which to find an architecture office – particularly one that’s working on projects from Stockholm to Los Angeles. But then Selgas Cano, the Spanish firm chosen to design next year’s Serpentine Gallery summer pavilion, are no ordinary architects.

“We think nature should take precedence over architecture,” says José Selgas, who founded the practice with his wife, Lucía Cano, in 1998. “We try to hide the presence of our architecture as much as possible. In fact, people are sometimes upset when we finish a project because they are expecting something more visible.”

If you can spot it among the trees of Kensington Gardens, Selgas Cano’s pavilion is sure to intrigue passing park-goers as much as their mysterious office capsule. The first Spanish practice to be chosen for the annual commission, which celebrates its 15th anniversary next year, they are considered to be rising stars on the continent, yet still relatively unknown outside Spain. It is a choice that continues the Serpentine’s welcome move away from the usual big names, following Chilean architect Smiljan Radic last year, who landed his fibreglass space pod on a neolithic stone circle.

Selgas Cano’s buildings embody a captivating combination of high- and low-tech. They are often made from cheap, off-the-peg components, such as extruded plastic sheeting and corrugated metal, but assembled with a painterly quality – and a dazzling use of colour. They have completed two substantial congress halls in Spain: one a crystalline meteor in the rolling hills outside Cáceres, the other a giant harbour-front fun-shed in Cartagena, a translucent box through which staircases zigzag and brightly coloured ramps slice. Both buildings play games with reflections and transparencies and with contrasts between hefty and lightweight.

Some of their other projects could be straight from the canvas of Joan Miró, his strange universe of amoebic forms and squiggly lines rendered in three dimensions at an urban scale. A youth and community centre in Merida is housed in wonky containers beneath a great orange roof that sweeps around the site in a twisted arc, buckling between skate ramps and a climbing wall. It has all the cheerful energy and wayward charm of a child’s crayon scribble.

“It is an amazing opportunity to really test an idea about structure and material,” says Selgas. “We are currently working with engineers, looking at using only one material in a structural way, to explore ideas of transparency.” They have yet to reveal a design for their pavilion, but Selgas promises “it will be absolutely experimental, from every angle you look through it”, and will “really embrace the garden”.

Five miles east of the Serpentine, the practice has just unveiled a garden of a different kind. Behind a forest of pot plants and hanging foliage, young startup hotdeskers are working away on their laptops, sitting on vintage designer chairs and enclosed in pods with transparent acrylic walls. There is a loungey 1960s vibe, with mirrored panels, white corrugated plastic and curving see-through screens giving a touch of the sci-fi – and there are plants everywhere you look. If Barbarella turned her hand to running a garden centre, this is what it would look like.

“You spend most of your life at work, so the office should be a great place to be,” says Selgas, describing the ethos behind Second Home, a new “curated workplace” off Brick Lane, set up by Rohan Silva, the former government tech adviser behind the Silicon Roundabout idea. “We want this to be the kind of place people bring their friends and family at the weekend,” he adds. “Just like we hope our pavilion will be.”
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source: architectureanddesign

Madrid-based architecture firm SelgasCano will follow in the footsteps of Koolhaas, Gehry, Nouvel and Fujimoto by designing the 2015 London Serpentine Pavilion for the institution’s summer architecture celebration.

Founded by José Selgas and Lucía Cano, SelgasCano will create the 15th design for the London Serptentine’s annual celebration of architecture which will open at Kensington Gardens in June.

SelgasCano are known for their avant-garde work that employs unusual materials, such as plastic, often rarely applied to architecture.

As with previous Pavilion commissions, the brief is to design a flexible, multi-purpose social space with a café that is open to all throughout the summer.

From that it is anyone’s guess to what the architects will imagine for the Pavilion but if a statement from the architects is anything to go by then a monolithic transparent structure with a unique structural technology seems to be on the cards for visitors.

While the architects have yet to submit plans, previous projects – such as the amorphous Plasencia Auditorium and Congress Centre, Cáceres (above) and the light filled harbour-side structure of El ‘B’, Cartagena Auditorium and Congress Centre (below)—offer clues as to what the architects make conjure. Images: Hisao Suzuki and Iwan Baan.

“This is an amazing and unique opportunity to work in a Royal Garden in the centre of London,” reads the statement SelgasCano.

“Both aspects, ‘Garden’ and ‘London’, are very important for us in the development of this project.

“We are in the middle of a garden, a ‘Royal’ garden indeed, once divided in two and separated by a Serpentine.

“That garden clings in the middle of London. Garden and London (which best defines London?) will be the elements to show and develop in the Pavilion.

“For that we are going to use only one material as a canvas for both: the Transparency. That ‘material’ has to be explored in all its structural possibilities, avoiding any other secondary material that supports it, and the most advanced technologies will be needed to be employed to accomplish that transparency.

“A good definition for the pavilion can be taken from J. M. Barrie: it aims to be as a ‘Betwixt-and-Between’.”

A design will be released by SelgasCano in February before the Pavilion is built and the June to October event begins.
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source: designdb

런던 중심부에 위치한 하이드 파크(Hyde Park)의 켄싱턴 가든(Kensington Gardens)에 있는 서펀타인 갤러리(Serpentine Gallery)는 원래 공원 내 찻집이었던 건물을 1970년 갤러리로 전환한 공공갤러리다. 획기적인 건축 프로젝트인 서펀타인 파빌리온 프로젝트는 갤러리 운영을 위한 후원금 조성 파티의 부대 프로그램으로 시작했다. 2000년, 당시 세계 건축계의 눈길을 끌기 시작했던 자하 하디드(Zaha Hadid)에게 의뢰해 세운 행사용 야외 천막이 상상 이상의 인기를 끌자, 갤러리에서는 이 건물을 여름 내내 대중에게 공개했다. 그 후 매년 여름마다 세계적으로 활동하지만, 영국에서는 프로젝트를 실행한 적이 없는 건축가를 선정해 갤러리 옆에 실험적인 건축 구조물을 짓고 있다. 이 파빌리온 프로젝트는 고색창연한 건축물이 가득하지만 새로운 건축 프로젝트는 많지 않은 런던에 활력을 불어넣는 행사이기도 하다. 그간 네덜란드의 렘 콜하스(Rem Koolhaas), 미국의 프랭크 게리(Frank Ghery), 프랑스의 장 누벨(Jean Nouvel) 등이 참여했고, 올해는 칠레의 건축가 스밀한 라딕(Smiljan Radic)이 석기시대 돌무더기 위에서 쉬고 있는 우주선처럼 보이는 건축 구조물을 선보였다.

2015년 파빌리온의 건축가로 선정된 셀가스카노 스튜디오는 1998년부터 마드리드에서 활동 중인 호세 셀가스(Jose Selgas)와 루시아 카노(Lucia Cano)를 중심으로 한 건축가 그룹으로 스페인 건축가로는 처음으로 프로젝트에 참가하게 됐다. 건축물에는 잘 사용하지 않는 합성물질과 새로운 기술을 사용해 ‘투과성’이 있는 공간을 연출하는 것으로 알려진 이 건축가 듀오는 그간 주로 스페인에서만 활동한 탓에 다른 참가자들에 비해 국제적으로 많이 알려지지 않은 편인데, 이번 프로젝트에는 ‘정원’과 ‘런던’이라는 두 가지 측면에 집중해서 프로젝트를 구상할 것이라고 한다.