Architectural Design Archive
Dialogue
What if we could respond to their present and future needs? Listen to Tiermes and respond to what he cries out for us.

Based on these premises, two proposals are generated that seek dialogue, with ruin and landscape respectively.Converse without altering what was first, read the language of the place and make the most of it. In essence, the aim is to create a precise and subtle element capable of dialoguing with the environment and activating and valuing its historical memory.

Thus arises the first project proposed, FOOTPRINTS, a removable shelter for archaeologists. A very clear criterion is advocated, lightness. A route with different levels is conceived that sits on the ground with vertical supports of minimum thickness, with great delicacy, that are barely perceived, like a flamenco. It is thus committed to the dialogue between the past and the present, following the traces of the pre-existing ruins, as if it were a question of raising them, thus being able to sew itself into the landscape. For the shelter spaces, the dimensions of this route are subtly expanded, governed in magnitude according to the lower ruins, taking advantage of these on a single occasion. In them, a perimeter lattice is proposed that introduces a great play of light, leaving the rest of the route in the open.


In the same direction, the second project was born. A museum-pavilion is proposed. A line is sketched in the terrain that slides along the slope, which at the plant level is a simulation of the level curves and outside, seeks to crown the site. The pavilion is conceived through a repetitive structural element. An architectural walk is generated by the succession of porticos, in which a set of variables is introduced in order to arouse different situations. This route culminates with the winding of the line on itself generating a circular courtyard inside with vegetal cover. In order to delimit the exterior, we bet on an enclosure that is based on the concatenation of folds, nuancing the light in a suggestive way.