Daily Mirror
by GARCIAGERMAN Architects

Daily Mirror is a permanent installation placed in an open plaza space in the Eurocís Block, facing one of Madrid’s main in-and-out arteries, Maria de Molina Street, which leads to the airport and the Barcelona A-2 Highway.

Daily Mirror incorporates itself in the high speed entrance sequence that penetrates the city, punctuated by big scale local hits such as Torres Blancas, Bancaya Building and Eurocís itself, and thus assumes an oversized scale, celebrating this kinetic enclave, -restless in its permanent flow of people and cars-, by means of a continuous 22m.-long stainless steel mirror focused upon cars and passer byes.

Like a register of this nervous urban flux and daily events, its linearity and reflection can be related to a roll of film continuously unfolding, while its position protects the new garden and plaza behind from noises, and signals the transition between the XIXth and XXth Century Madrid urban grids.

With no precise program or function, this makeshift pavilion acts as a stoppage or a magnet: a place offering shade and protection; water and rest. A door into a garden and a shield towards the noise. An ambiguous sign, gravitating over citizens and traffic, and in which bored drivers stuck in traffic jams can find a moment of surprise when discovering their own reflection.

Credits:
Architects: GARCIAGERMAN Architects Jacobo García-Germán, Olga González, Marta García, Fernando Cremades, Javier Vidal, Borja Abellán, Ángela Lupiañez, Teresa Carro, Martha Sosa, Javier M. Merino (structure)
Location: Madrid, Spain
Builder: Rodríguez Ávila S.L. + Reformas Oro S.L. + Cerrajería Actyme
Client: Eurocís Gestión S.L. + Licorella Notte S.L. + Ministerio de Hacienda y Administraciones Públicas
Date: 2015
Photography: Imagen Subliminal (Miguel de Guzmán + Rocío Romero)

Architects: GARCIAGERMAN Architects



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Jacobo García-Germán Vázquez (Madrid, 1974) es doctor arquitecto, Master en Historia y Teoría, y profesor de Proyectos Arquitectónicos en la Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM), así como profesor invitado en numerosas universidades españolas e internacionales. Director de GARCIAGERMAN ARQUITECTOS, su obra ha obtenido, entre otros reconocimientos, Premio COAM, Premio FAD, Premio de la XIV Bienal Española de Arquitectura y Urbanismo o Shortlist del Premio Mies van der Rohe. Es autor de varios libros y de textos de investigación publicados en medios especializados, habiendo sido director de Arquitectura, revista oficial del Colegio de Arquitectos de Madrid (COAM). Posee una trayectoria paralela como comisario de arquitectura y ha formado parte del Comité Científico del Pabellón Español de la XV Bienal de Arquitectura de Venecia 2016 que obtuvo el León de Oro.