Wood de Travers

Team point of view

We propose the idea of generating a contemporary construction system that represents the region itself, involving cooperation between craft workshops and architects, artists and businessmen, some of them participating in the new entrepreneurial business zone.
The stacking construction system forms an intuitive intellectual resource that links tradition and contemporary architecture, a way of building the future of the region on innovative construction. The fragments of architecture and infrastructure that constituted the former factory city can be treated as a changing legacy, which requires guidelines for change. This means more than making the traditional choice between buildings for retention and those for demolition. The fragments are as relevant as the productive relations: an argument is needed to join together the pieces of a dramatically interrupted past.