Spanish studio Mi5 Arquitectos have completed a youth centre with a star-shaped interior on the outskirts of Madrid.
Called New Youth Centre in Rivas Guzman, the single-storey building features faceted interior surfaces in clashing colours.
A room with a star-shaped plan at one corner of the building was designed to represent an explosion of activity within.
This theme is continued to the outside of the building, where surfaces are bright purple and orange with star-shaped metal railings.
Photographs are by Miguel de Guzman.
The following information is from Mi5:
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NEW YOUTH CENTER IN RIVAS VACIAMADRID
From the beginning, the project was conceived as the possibility of making the “underground” visible, a construction devised as a radical manifestation of Madrid’s outskirts youthful spirit in general, and of Rivas´ youth groups in particular.
The project aspires to become an explicit “teen” communication vehicle by appropriating their language and their voices as the ingredients of the project.
In this way, the project’s team embraces all Rivas’s youth groups by means of an open participation process, in which the future users of the centre, combined with technicians and politicians, will contribute their decisions, their concerns, their fantasies and their aesthetics to create a contemporary “social monument”.
The end result of this process is a public structure with a punk spirit, intensely burdened with content and articulated around programmatic centres conceived as activity explosions, which are erected as meeting and exchange points of the emerging communities.
January 17th, 2010 at 6:02 pm
very interesting space! n i like the orange! but the purple is just wrong….
January 17th, 2010 at 6:44 pm
I love the interior of this school, although the star shaped room’s pit seems to be a bit problematic. The exterior is just bizarre, very 80’s,
January 17th, 2010 at 8:37 pm
the inside is not that bad but the exterior…ufff
January 17th, 2010 at 9:34 pm
reminds me of a jumping castle …. might be a good thing?
January 17th, 2010 at 10:04 pm
fun.thats it.
January 18th, 2010 at 12:17 am
nice interior though…
January 18th, 2010 at 2:32 am
the outside is a wee bit hideous, its like all the bad things about memphis stuck on the outside of a building
the interior looks stunning however, I bet the kids love this place.
January 18th, 2010 at 3:11 am
the exterior remind me of mario game, urgh…
January 18th, 2010 at 5:41 am
Hmmm… I see Bart and Lisa Simpsons there. :-p
January 18th, 2010 at 5:44 am
I think the bright-coulored orange is not appropriate.
It will make people feel unconfortable if being there long time.
January 18th, 2010 at 9:28 am
Who tells that just because it is “youth” it has to be like chinese electronic toys…
January 18th, 2010 at 9:29 am
interior space is a total success, but i wish the building was underground!!!
January 18th, 2010 at 9:30 am
Zap in hundreds of gaming units, a cigarette machine & a condom one too, just for good measure to keep polititions off our backs.
Voila – we are in business for a mega arcade.
Now we just need a big sign with flashing neons for added attracton of the masses.
Any suggestions for a name???
January 18th, 2010 at 9:42 am
interesting spaces in the inside… those orange frames on the outside and the horrible purple facade destroys every positive vibe… ouch
January 18th, 2010 at 9:17 pm
Architecture on steroids!
January 20th, 2010 at 6:16 am
angry kids… 10 minutes a day into the red little one, and than you can kill all your little friends…. just kidding.. heheheh!!!
I just don´t like it, but they have balls.
January 21st, 2010 at 12:12 pm
i love the orange but it seems to be a bit too much! i mean u can barely stay in the room with ur eyes open longer than 5 minutes, it can drive u crazy.
January 24th, 2010 at 5:25 pm
It’s like going to school at McDonalds…