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Industrial tapestry
Industrial tapestry
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
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Industrial tapestry
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Sometimes, projects do not arise from freely made decisions but as a consequence of external conditions that initially presented as problems but evolved into the essential elements. Projects emerge from unexpected associations, of which we are mostly unaware. In this way, designing seems to be about establishing relationships. It involves gathering and then connecting needs or functions, spaces, forms, materials, and experiences that, at a certain moment in the project, become present, and we desperately try to capture and materialize them.
Architecture, in its historical continuity, generates new types of buildings; the taxi cooperative of Las Palmas is an example of this direct relationship between new functions and new spatial requirements. Initially, some of these functions are housed in buildings conceived differently (workshops, taximeter room, lubrication bay, etc.), where, after a period of learning and contamination, the new functions eventually lead to the creation of different buildings and autonomous spaces with very specific programs and needs. As a result, the new building typology retains many characteristics of these industrial buildings while simultaneously increasing the number of building types, using previous experience to provide continuity to its spatial speculation.
The proposed project creates containers that confine light, empty architectures involved in the daily and immediate routine of industrial work. We thus find ourselves delving into an indeterminate space, where the plot is no longer understood as something delimited and stable, horizontal, defined, homogeneous, passive, but rather as a complex and porous host tapestry, an operating system with its own laws in which architecture emerges as an improbable and fluid figure. A sequence of perceived spaces (offices, cafeteria, service station, parking, etc.) will accompany us on our journey through the interior of the complex, revealing countless hidden spaces. For this, we must include in our baggage the tapestry as a porous surface interweaving the material and conceptual aspects of the project in a process of linguistic heterogeneity.
Porosity, transparency, and the journey (as if it were a taxi ride) have emerged as qualities that organize the project, which requires an accumulative order and minimal geometric organization as a recurring formal basis. The project is carried out with the utmost energy, space, and time efficiency. The economy of means is a constant in transforming our proposal, where only the activities carried out by the taxi drivers adhere to this functional law. In the case of architecture, the formal search for the limits we have enumerated—density, serialization, economy of means, typology, productive and industrial relationship, construction of interstices, confined light—guides the design process.
Architecture, in its historical continuity, generates new types of buildings; the taxi cooperative of Las Palmas is an example of this direct relationship between new functions and new spatial requirements. Initially, some of these functions are housed in buildings conceived differently (workshops, taximeter room, lubrication bay, etc.), where, after a period of learning and contamination, the new functions eventually lead to the creation of different buildings and autonomous spaces with very specific programs and needs. As a result, the new building typology retains many characteristics of these industrial buildings while simultaneously increasing the number of building types, using previous experience to provide continuity to its spatial speculation.
The proposed project creates containers that confine light, empty architectures involved in the daily and immediate routine of industrial work. We thus find ourselves delving into an indeterminate space, where the plot is no longer understood as something delimited and stable, horizontal, defined, homogeneous, passive, but rather as a complex and porous host tapestry, an operating system with its own laws in which architecture emerges as an improbable and fluid figure. A sequence of perceived spaces (offices, cafeteria, service station, parking, etc.) will accompany us on our journey through the interior of the complex, revealing countless hidden spaces. For this, we must include in our baggage the tapestry as a porous surface interweaving the material and conceptual aspects of the project in a process of linguistic heterogeneity.
Porosity, transparency, and the journey (as if it were a taxi ride) have emerged as qualities that organize the project, which requires an accumulative order and minimal geometric organization as a recurring formal basis. The project is carried out with the utmost energy, space, and time efficiency. The economy of means is a constant in transforming our proposal, where only the activities carried out by the taxi drivers adhere to this functional law. In the case of architecture, the formal search for the limits we have enumerated—density, serialization, economy of means, typology, productive and industrial relationship, construction of interstices, confined light—guides the design process.
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