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THE HIDDEN PAVILION | PENELAS ARCHITECTS

Las Rozas, Madrid, Spain   Description provided by the architect. The Project fulfills the desire to build a space for meditation and retreat, a place to Inhabit and to think...   [caption id="attachment_4340" align="alignnone" width="1600"] © ImagenSubliminal (Miguel de Guzmán + Rocío Romero)[/caption]   The pavilion is built in a glade of the forest, the only clearing without a tree...   [caption id="attachment_4334" align="alignnone" width="1400"] © ImagenSubliminal (Miguel de Guzmán + Rocío Romero)[/caption]   It is wrapped up in nature, hidden in it, in a way that it is only slightly perceptible...   [caption id="attachment_4335" align="alignnone" width="931"] © ImagenSubliminal (Miguel de Guzmán + Rocío Romero)[/caption]   Suspended over a small waterfall, the pavilion protects it…   [caption id="attachment_4352" align="alignnone" width="1400"] © ImagenSubliminal (Miguel de Guzmán + Rocío Romero)[/caption]   The pavilion interacts directly with the growing trees, allowing them to pass through its terraces and cantilevers by gaps built for them…   [caption id="attachment_4338" align="alignnone" width="1001"] © ImagenSubliminal (Miguel de Guzmán + Rocío Romero)[/caption]   Fully embedded within the forest, the pavilion openly embraces the presence of nature through the enclosure of its glass exterior…   [caption id="attachment_4353" align="alignnone" width="1600"] © ImagenSubliminal (Miguel de Guzmán + Rocío Romero)[/caption]   The upper-level surface is inclined, respectfully providing room for the growth of a bicentenary holm oak tree…   [caption id="attachment_4341" align="alignnone" width="1600"] © ImagenSubliminal (Miguel de Guzmán + Rocío Romero)[/caption]   The raised light wells catch the sun rays and direct them downwards towards the interior, rays that would have otherwise been blocked by the holm oak tree...   [caption id="attachment_4346" align="alignnone" width="1600"] © ImagenSubliminal (Miguel de Guzmán + Rocío Romero)[/caption]   Only three materials are used: rusted steel structure, glass facade and cherry-tree wood interior, bringing Nature inside…   [caption id="attachment_4356" align="alignnone" width="1200"] © ImagenSubliminal (Miguel de Guzmán + Rocío Romero)[/caption]   And the passing of the seasons generates new senses and emotions within the design…   [caption id="attachment_4336" align="alignnone" width="1920"] © ImagenSubliminal (Miguel de Guzmán + Rocío Romero)[/caption] [caption id="attachment_4350" align="alignnone" width="3000"] © Jose Luis Penelas (Penelas Architects)[/caption] [caption id="attachment_4347" align="alignnone" width="3000"] © Jose Luis Penelas (Penelas Architects)[/caption] [caption id="attachment_4349" align="alignnone" width="3000"] © Jose Luis Penelas (Penelas Architects)[/caption]  

Project Details

Architect: José Luis Esteban Penelas (Dr. Architect, Chair Professor UEM), Penales Architects Location: Las Rozas, Madrid (Spain) Project Year: 2016 Area: 70 sqm Photographs: ImagenSubliminal (Miguel de Guzmán + Rocío Romero)