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TEAM PORTRAIT

INTERVIEW
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1. How do you define the main issue of your project in relation with the theme “Living Cities Imagining architecture taking care of the milieus”? And in which way do you think your project can contribute to an ecological and/or social evolution?
It is pertinent to understand architecture as a device capable of deploying mediations and weaving relationships between existing actants. Understand the construction process beyond a building process, as a technical mediation procedure. This interpretation offers a criterion for the analysis of modern architecture that transcends stylistic frameworks. It is not about inventing new formal or spatial resources for the discipline as an end in itself, but rather allowing other existing realities to be incorporated into the conversation of the project from an ecosystem perspective, thus architecture would be the means by which, if In a collaborative way, the agents involved materialize the (best) reassembly of their networks.  

2. How did the issues of your design and the questions raised by the site mutation meet?
The project transcends the physical limits of the pre-existing building, it is considered as a protocol of action in obsolete industrial buildings through its resignification. The structural characteristics of the old AIBE building allow us to read it as a flexible support with a great capacity to experiment with new typologies capable of addressing the global challenges of the 21st century. In this case it is interpreted as an inhabited water purification infrastructure. At a time when energy debates are more pertinent than ever, water remains in the background, yet the way we produce, distribute and consume it mobilizes our societies, shapes our metropolises and dramatically transforms our geographies. more radical than any other energy source.

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