MONEO BROCK STUDIO

Belén Moneo Feduchi and Jeff Brock formed MONEO BROCK STUDIO in 1993 in New York, when they first collaborated professionally on a project for a loft in Tribeca, in New York City. By the end of 2001 they had built seven more lofts, a house in Maine and a house in the countryside outside of Stockholm, Sweden.

At the same time they worked for the Studio of Rafael Moneo. In December of 1993 they moved for two years to Stockholm where they directed the project of the New Museums of Modern Art and Architecture. In this work they developed details of the buildings’ construction as well as designs and details for its furnishings and interiors.

In 1997 they continued work with Rafael Moneo on the project for the new residence for the Embassy of Spain in Washington D.C. and in 1998 they began to develop the design for a new building of studios and workshops for the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Both buildings were finished in 2002.
At the end of 2001 the office moved to Madrid, Spain to begin work on their own project for a new building to house thermal baths and a spa in the Pyrenees of Aragon, which includes 91,500 square feet of interior space. The spa, completed in January 2008, is built into the mountainside at a spectacular site on a glacial moraine at an elevation of 5,413 feet beneath a cirque of 10,000 foot peaks. The program includes thermal pools, a gymnasium, treatment rooms and various spaces for recreation and relaxation.

In 2003 they began work on two projects in El Escorial, Madrid, both of which were completed in 2008. One is a 5,000 square foot single-family house among pine trees opposite the monastery of El Escorial, while the other is a small apartment building in the historic center of the town incorporating a protected façade. Also completed this year is a new gas station for the town of San Agustín de Guadalix, 21 miles outside of Madrid.

Finished in May 2010 is a steel and glass pavilion and a park in the city of Cuenca. The pavilion of 33,360 square feet is to house the events of the annual town fair, as well as the weekly market. The pavilion is composed of 23 modules, each an identical or symmetrical distorted pentagon. Also beginning construction is a Museum project for Telefónica. The Museum will be housed in one of Madrid’s more emblematic buildings, situated in Gran Via and built during the 1920’s in the heart of the city. The 92,500 square foot museum is distributed on three floors connected by an engaging sculptural stair. Also under construction is the restaurant LANBROA in the Hotel Reina Petronila in Zaragoza while the cafeteria has been inaugurated in December 2009.

In development is a 90-unit housing project in Manresa, Barcelona, as well as three houses in the town of Sevilla la Nueva, a suburb of Madrid, and another villa in Marbella, Malaga. Of the various competitions in which they have participated, it is worth mentioning -although the project will not be built- the sports facilities in Sanchinarro in which they were awarded first place.

Currently they are collaborating with Rafael Moneo in the design of the INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE BUILDING for Columbia University in the City of New York. The building is under construction on the last remaining site of the McKim, Mead and White campus, and will be completed in the summer 2010.

Among the numerous design and furniture pieces they have developed is the complete series of lavatories and bathroom fixtures FRONTALIS for Roca Sanitarios, the armchair FUN FAN for Jacinto USAN, the kitchen GLASÉ for BD and the polycarbonate shelves CHROMODULAR, all of which are presently being manufactured in Spain.