The restorers from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston discovered that under the canvas of Van Gogh´s Ravine, there was another painting from the Dutch master that historians believed to be lost, Wild Vegetation. We can think that similar cases of overlapping occur in architecture. In the summer of 2006 we had to build a small training center on a lot where there was an abandoned prefabricated building. Confronting the inertia of demolishing and rebuilding we propose to recycle that old module with the suspicion that under neath it there would be another time from which to rewrite its history. We proposed to consider the capacity that preexistences have for regeneration, assuming new uses and stretching the traditional idea of rehabilitation and therefore to think of a possible second life suggested by the changing landscape of the port. We wanted to rethink the prefabricated module assessing those aspects that interested us: the light insertion with the sunken garden plane as the only reference, the ephemeral character associated with the port activity and dry construction and to resolve certain issues that needed to be resolved like the insertion of the small program, the relationship with the garden and the access from the public road. We began to think in terms of a pavilion rather than a building, to support rather than to lay the foundations, prefabrication rather than construction, lightness rather than perpetuity. To use and to reuse, to think and to rethink things, to superimpose a life after bringing about the best qualities of another object found.
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