The EMV (the municipality housing corporation) has called Legorreta Arquitectos and Aguinaga & Associates to design 108 social housing units in La Latina district, 8 kilometers from the center of Madrid in the road to Lisbon.

The 6.868 sq.mt. site, allows 11.000 sq.mt of floor area. Ten volumes of four to eight stories are linked creating a series of plazas and gardens connected with the green park on the roadside of the Madrid - Lisbon highway.

  Ricardo Legorreta is one of the most prominent international architects with work in América, Europe and Japan. He received the 1999 AIA Golden Medal and has been member of the Jury for the Pritzker Price the last ten years.

The Cathedral of Managua, San Antonio (Texas) Central Library, the National Art Center in Mexico City and Mexico's pavillon in Hannover are among his best well known works.

 Eugenio Aguinaga, two COAM Awards, one COAVN Award and a First prize in architecture of Madrid's City Council, has designed with Pelli and Balmori of New Haven (Connecticut) Abandoibarra's Master Plan in Bilbao. He also designed recently the new urban center of the Ensanche of Vallecas in Madrid.

 The colaboration of Legorreta and Aguinaga in this project is the result of the desire of the EMV to obtain a high quality level in the design of social housing, also seeking the contribution of foreign and local architects that may enrichen with new ideas such an important architectural typology.

26.05.2000

 Aguinaga and Associates design for a year 2000 Shrine in Milford (Indiana), has been included among the 16 finalists of a total of 268 entries from 31 countries in the International Competition organized by the diocese of Fort Wayne/South Bend. Rodolfo Machado, John Burgee and Carol Krinsky were among others members of the jury. The proposal features an excavated space in the manner of the primitive christian catacombs, covered by a great double-curvature shell as a desert tent or tabernacle.

Credits:

Eugenio Aguinaga (Principal in charge)

José María Jiménez Urrutia

Javier Barrero

Belén Benavides

Ignacio López

 

 

Madrid, December 18th 1999

Mr.Luis Armada, Urban Design City Manager, Mr.Angel Rodríguez Hervás, EMV Manager, and Mr.Javier García Valcarcel, Manager of the Ensanche de Vallecas Management Comitee, studying in the City Council the model of the new Urban Center with Mr.Eugenio Aguinaga and Mr.José M.J.Urrutia of Aguinaga & Associates.

 Comissioned by the Ensanche de Vallecas (Madrid) Mangement Comitee, Aguinaga & Associates Architects has designed a Master Plan for the new Ensanche of Vallecas Urban Center in Madrid. The urban site of 250.000 sq.mt. includes a built floor area of 159.614 sq.mt. for residential purposes, 26.500 sq.mt. of office space and 55.422 sq.mt. of comunity services.

The latter include the District Municipal Board building, a Public Library, Auditoria, indoors sport facilities, a cinematheque and Health and Welfare services.

There is a great green square of 22.500 sq.mt.in the center of the scheme, placed above the two main traffic axis. The office tower, rising up to 200 m., is the main icon of the complex.

A public presentation to the City Major was held in June 11th, 1999. The project is expected to be developed in the present legislature . (20.9.99)