马德里会议中心 | 里卡多·博菲尔 Taller de Arquitectura

Firm： Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura

Type： Commercial › Exhibition Center Government + Health › City Hall

YEAR： 1993

While the extent and complexity of the programme prompted the

construction of more than one volume, the terms of the area planning

guidelines allowed 100% occupation of the site, with a height limit

which suggested a single compact building. This apparent contradiction

was resolved by the design of a great “container” which houses in its

interior the pavilions with their different functions, like an

architecture inside an architecture.The seven and a half-metre geometrical grid modulates the side into

autonomous units, recreating an urban structure of streets and squares

in its interior. The building is divided internally into four blocks.

The least regular of these contains the catering services and stores.

The two linear blocks which frame the central space are given over to

offices and meetings rooms. The conference hall, which occupies a central position, is bounded by four vertical

communications towers, and projects its triangular from beyond the glass

skin of the façade. The roof of the main hall has been made accessible,

serving a variety of different functions and taking the form of an

elevated central square within the urban layout of the building’s

interior.Program: two auditoriums with a capacity for 2,000 and 1,500 people

respectively, offices, exhibition hall, cafeteria, restaurant,

banqueting hall, and car park.