Air Matter(s)
MADRID (ES) — SPECIAL MENTION
AUTHOR(S) — Jorge Martín Sainz de los Terreros (ES), Architect-urbanist, researcher; Miguel Martín Sánchez (ES), Architect-urbanist
CONTACT — Expose Propose Politicise (EPP), Madrid (ES) T. +34 650616025 / +34 699581146 info@exposeproposepoliticise.com www.exposeproposepoliticise.com
TEAM POINT OF VIEW — In this project, air is the matter with which new urban environments
are built. By foregrounding the invisible, the focus on what counts, as an actor in city, is shifted. Different particles and molecules of air are actively involved in the production processes of the city. Hence, air is made visible, or better, ‘sensitised’: air is felt, smelled, experienced, sensed, breathed... The intervention proposes an infrastructure that purifies Madrid´s urban air and, in doing so, it also metabolises by-products from pollution. Our project is a productive infrastructure (called AIR System) that builds environments for, with and through air. The infrastructure consists in a series of air filters—movable and car-like sized—that are introduced in former parking spaces. The polluted air is sucked, cleaned, moisturised, refreshed and aromatised before it is given back to the squares of the city.
Nature Injections AUTHOR(S) — Miguel Alonso González (ES), Architect
183 MADRID (ES) — SPECIAL MENTION CONTACT — Avilés (ES), T. +34 635372078
miguel.alonsog28@gmail.com
TEAM POINT OF VIEW — The urban complexity reached in the
centre of Madrid leads to rethink the roles of its infrastructures. The excess of traffic as well as the lack of balance among activities in this area requires making transformations in the most versatile pieces of the urban framework, the squares. Thereby, this proposal aims at converting the existing underground car parks in new facilities. Moreover, the reorganization of circulations and the creation of merchandise distribution centres liberate in large extent the representative spaces from the road traffic. Finally, should be noted the role of the visual permeability between the surface of the squares and the lower floors, what it supposes is an important resource in order to revitalize the urban space.
