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Chambers of Commerce Madrid, Building, Project, Photo, News, Design, Image
High Council of The Chambers of Commerce of Madrid
Development by Rafael de La-Hoz in Madrid, central Spain, Europe
THE HIGH COUNCIL OF THE CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE OF MADRID
2006
Architect: Rafael de La-Hoz
Location: Campo de Las Naciones
Photographs : Miguel de Guzmán

The word chamber refers to an enclosed space or cavity as in a gun
and it can also be used to denote a closed hall or room.
Chamber is also synonymous of a private assembly or the body of people
who meet in the hall or room.

The project was limited to designing a construction employing these
two meanings.
On a rectangular site close to the Madrid ringroad and on a rock base
we deposited a hermetic concrete box as though it were an object.
A large opening was provided to look over the adjoining garden. A
box and its window: the guns cavity and bore.
Our interest then turned to chamber as a meeting place.
We introduced in the gun cavity three volumes as suspended rooms.
Meeting Room and Assembly Room at the two ends. One closed and metallic,
another translucent and rock-like, they are attended from the third
room which acts as the administrative server of both meeting rooms.
The vacuum houses the volumes of the functional chambers. A spatially
recurring theme. a space within a space.

Rafael de La-Hoz received the Distinción COAM 2008 a la Obra
de los Arquitectos (COAM Distinction for Architectural Work) for the
High Council of the Chambers of Commerce of Madrid. The award presentation
took place in the Infanta Isabel Theater for Architecture Week.
Located in Campo de Las Naciones in Madrid, Rafael de La-Hoz describes
the building as A large chamber or concrete box that houses
various assembly and meeting chambers inside. Spatially it is an empty
volume housing other empty spaces, one space within another.

Spanish Architect : Rafael
de Lahoz Arquitectos - contact details
The High Council of The Chambers of Commerce of Madrid - Building
Information
Address: C/ Ribera del Loira, 12 Madrid
Architect: Rafael de La-Hoz Castanys
Collaborating architects:
-Silvia Villamor, Ángel Rolán y Manuel Doménech
; -Elena Elósegui
Installations Engineering: Úrculo Ingenieros
Structures Engineering: Julio Martínez Calzón, José
Alberto de la Torre and Jesús Jiménez Cañas
Client: Consejo Superior de las Cámaras de Comercio
Construction Company: Ferrovial-Agromán
Area: 8.700 m2
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