The Cloud is a dense space
built with a very light material, it is 98% air.
Based on 7 modules of
identical massive volume: 2.4 x 6 x 2.4 m., each of them is shaped differently
to generate a unique space, thus getting: the stage, the patio, the step, the
circus, the cinema, the assembly and the scale. 7 spaces as the 7 notes that compose
the musical scale, which combined together produce very different sets of
sounds, multiple scenes that accommodate simultaneously reading, playing, rest
or conversation activities.
The material that shapes each
module, expanded polystyrene, is assembled in a massive way ensuring optimal
mechanical performance, and is protected with a layer of resin that completes
the construction system providing what the foam does not have: stability, durability
and color. The lightness of this technology makes movable what would otherwise be
immovable, facilitating the handling of the pieces and their necessary
mobility.
The Cloud is a space within a
space. Designed to be placed in the Reader's House, in Madrid’s Old Municipal
Slaughterhouse, it is architecture at the scale of children between 1 and 12
years old, where the youngest ones discover a universe custom-made, to develop
and learn, to hide, to escape, to create and recreate, finally in a space that plays
by their rules.