Centro Creciendo
Architecture Rennovation
Location:Madrid, Spain
Team:Luisa Brando
Valeria Paez Cala
State
Client:Centro Creciendo Children’s Heath Center
Photography:
Lua Fischer
We were hired to redesign the facade of the building, an old cinema in the neighborhood of Mirasierra was to be repurposed to become a Children’s Health Center. It was a project about light, turning a building that was previously hermetic, to a building that healed with light. To honor Rafael de la Hoz (former architect of the building) we designed a facade made of repeated vertical elements that apparently looks hermetic (as was the cinema), but was actually translucent. As a drawing of Carlos Cruz Diez, made of repetition of vertical lines and triangulation, we built with one modular system made of perforated screens that creates a rhythm that allows for light to come in and out of the builidng. All of the facades become one skin that does not allow one to see clearly when a window starts or finishes. It is a game of rhythm and light, a play between what was there and what is to come.