Fündc’s Cultural Centre
Fündc’s Cultural Centre (NCC) is the biggest urban intervention conducted on Pozuelo de Alarcon, a suburb on the outskirts of Madrid, and promises to alter the old city centre’s degraded urban character injecting life into its streets.
Built in one of the richest municipalities of Spain, where large companies and wealthy people have established their residences, the NCC and the urban intervention on and around Padre Valler square revitalises the old city centre which remained unchanged and deteriorated during the decades. “The intervention refers both to the Cultural Centre Building on its core, but more importantly to the ‘new’ centre it creates at an urban level,” explains Cesar Garcia Guerra architect and partner of Fündc.
Combing multiple creative disciplines lies at the core of office’s philosophy whose acronym stands for; Fusion & Union Needed by Disciplines of Creation. “This project has been a great opportunity for us” says Cesar Garcia Guerra, continuing, “we dealt with almost every discipline involved in spatial creation; traffic flow, infrastructure modification, engineering challenges, landscape solutions, renewal of old construction, large new architectural structures and interior design.”………..
Full feature in Issue 24 Autumn 2011 click here
Words by Stefania Vourazeri
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