Pinto Memory
+ BIOMETHANATION AND COMPOSTING PLANT
PINTO. MADRID +
The architectural and landscaping project presented
aims to create a unique and singular identity, a re-founding
location based on the three elements from the complex: the natural
environment, with its outstanding promontory; the artificial
environment created by the architecture; and the industrial
processes of classifying and recycling the waste inside it.
In order do this, a synergetic layout of the individual elements
has been proposed in such a way that some of them are on others
creating an effect of mutual need and natural-artificial unity.
The complex will appear as a promontory that dominates the
surrounding flatland and consists of two complementary slopes.
From the highway it will appear as a natural hill inviting
people to climb up and reach the Pavilion, which tangentially
crowns it. From inside the Pavilion (an Orientation Centre)
the eastern slope will be seen as a set of terraces that gradually
descend like a mosaic bits garden, forming an artificial landscape
symmetrical and complementary to the natural one, being encountered
only from that position. Below it, different treatment ways
will reproduce the natural topography and that one created
by the architecture, laying it out in a linear organization
of successive terraces that echoes the gravitational character
of the selection and recycling process. Due to this, it has
been decided not to separate the Orientation Centre from the
remaining installations, but rather to site it a top the process
allowing us to understand it from the first unloading operation
to the final storing of the recyclable products obtained in
a perfect continuity with the visitors area and the natural
setting.
Pinto Card BIOMETHANATION AND COMPOSTING PLANT
PINTO, MADRID. 2001 Firm Contest. Adjudged Proposal Client:
Department of Management and Environment Develop.
Government of Madrid Architects: Iñaki Ábalos, Juan Herreros Collaborators: Renata Sentkiewicz, Wouter Van Daele Consultants: Intecsa-Inarsa, S.A Installations: Comsa Medio Ambiente, Urbaser, Dragados Graphic Information: Gestalt Financial Study: José Torras