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The Concept Design is complete and the Menokin Foundation is actively raising funds for construction. The glass highlights the connections between the house and the surrounding landscape by means of variable transparency.Ĭurrently we are starting with the stabilization of the remains of the main neo-palladian house. This allows for the restoration of the overall configuration while establishing a clear distinction between old and new, exhibiting the process of colonial construction systems and the spatial relationships of different interior locales. Instead, a sophisticated structural glass system is proposed as the dominant new construction material. However, this will not be a conventional restoration process which might seek to reconstruct and replicate the original residential quarters. The volume and overall original form of the neo-palladian house will be re-established so that the visitor can visualize the original relationships among the structures and between these structures and their landscape.

Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when. The second phase involves the transformation of these main structures into a showcase of the process of their construction and conservation. ARQ Diario de Arquitectura de Clarn, 2014 - Architects - 120 pages. These registered National Historic Landmarks require urgent action to prevent further decay. The first phase of the project involves the stabilization of the existing remains of the main house and ancillary structures. For this we assembled an extraordinary team of consultants and begun working on a novel approach to conservation and interpretation of both the original architecture and the whole plantation site so as to make Menokin a distinctive stop along the string of historical colonial and revolutionary sites in Virgina.Įxisting Conditions of the Exterior & the Proposed Interiors. Our work pursues the goal of giving structure, physical form and institutional operativity to the Foundation enlightened aspirations, chiefly to approach conservation and interpretation in a innovative, unconventional way, aiming at making the visitor's experience of the multi-layered site a veritable individual creative process. This historic plantation is and will continue to be in the foreseeable future an active site of historical, ethnographic and archaeological investigations.

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Built and administered by Francis LIghtfoot Lee, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, Menokin sits on a prominent waterfront site whose full history traces itself back to pre-colonial times as the settlement of the Rappahannock tribes, from whom the name 'Menokin' comes from. Of particular interest are the remains of neo-palladian buildings of what were, at the end of the 18th century, the Menokin Plantation. In 2011 we were hired by the Menokin Foundation to develop a design strategy and master plan for the conservation and interpretation of their magnificent and inspiring 500 acres site in the Northern Neck of Virginia. A project that covers the 69,202.73 hectares of the city of Madrid: the largest that the elii architectural office has faced to date.Work In Progress: Menokin Exhibition and Conservation Center Perhaps it is in this plurality of glances and ways of doing where the value and actuality of an experience such as that of Veranos de la Villa resides. Finally, thanks to the elii team, Lucía Fernández Ramos, Ana López Sánchez-Vegazo and the rest of the people who have collaborated during these 4 years in this amazing process. And also to the artistic coordinator, María Ordás, and the rest of the artistic and production team: Pedro Portellano, Maxi Gilbert, Susana Jiménez and Javier Benedicto, etc. De venta opcional con Clarn, la publicacin condensa informacin y servicios especficos sobre las nuevas tendencias en construccin y diseo. And many thanks to the artistic director of VdV 2016-2019, Maral Kekejián, for her trust and for inviting us to think about the city in other ways. ARQ Semana a semana, los lectores amantes de la arquitectura renuevan su pasin, a travs de los contenidos que ofrece ARQ, Diario de Arquitectura. Thank you very much to FAD and to the jury. This project is a choral work developed by a great team where we were in charge of the urban strategy. FAD Award for MAD x MAD, the urban strategy project for the Veranos de la Villa.