Avenida del Monasterio de Silos, 57 in the neighborhood of Montecarmelo (Fuencarral-El Pardo) will open in the coming months a new municipal facility: a cultural center with library whose works have already been completed and in which the Madrid City Council has invested 5.7 million euros.
The building has a floor area of 2,266 m² distributed over three floors (one below ground level), in which large open-plan rooms have been prioritized to make the best possible use of the space, “reducing residual spaces and corners”, according to the Madrid City Council.
What will the new Montecarmelo cultural center be like?
Once equipped, the distribution of the rooms will be as follows:
- Basement floor. It has a garage, installation rooms, cleaning room and storage room.
- First floor. Access and cloakroom, main lobby, reading room, book and audiovisual collection, group room, auxiliary rooms, reprographics, reading area, newspaper library, toilets, rest area, children’s area, baby library and multipurpose room.
- Second floor. Lobby, reading area, comic library, youth room, computer room, dining room with kitchen, toilets, offices, rest room and multipurpose room.
A center “open to the people”.
Paloma García Romero, delegate of Works and Equipment of the Madrid City Council, said during her visit to this facility that “it is going to be extraordinary. It is a center with a magnificent quality, all the facilities have a lot of light? It is a center open to the people”.
This concept, that of openness, has been very present in the design process and conception of the space: the relationship between the interior and exterior of the building has been thought of as the backbone of the whole, so that it invites those who are outside to enter and allows those who are inside to contemplate the exterior and those who walk through it.