More photos of the project Context The school and kindergarten Manuel Núñez de Arenas is a public school in the neighborhood of Pozo de el Tío Raimundo, Madrid. Next to the school is the local football field, which use and opening hours are restricted. The best way to access the football field is to jump […]
Summary M-30 works: The stage is unique, unexplainable and majetic. It deserves an in-depth recognition. The pharaonic idea of chaging a city almost completely constitutes a good portrait of the current urban policies. The progress of the works, more and more catastrofic, expensive and pharaonic, as open wounds in the land, deserve to be documented […]
Autobarrios began on January of 2012 in the neighborhood of San Cristóbal de los Ángeles, Madrid. For the first twelve months, the project worked along social and local agents in the neighborhood, adding up to their current projects and becoming the excuse to consolidate them. After the meeting a platform composed of different local associations was […]
Navidad en RE (RE Christmas) are three ephemeral art installations set in the CaixaForum facades of Barcelona, Madrid and Zaragoza. The installations are made with the trash produced by citizens and instutitions that have collaborated by giving away their waste. The main objective is to focus on the waste generated during Christmas. In Madrid, reflecting on […]
Tapiola is a relevant example in the history of nordic garden cities which is having a deep renovation nowadays, with heavy works taking place all around. The core ideas which inspired this urbanism trend are nowadays in the point of view. In this context, Architecture Information Center Finland chose not distant EMMA, Espoo Museum of […]
Basurama proposes an interior landscape for Abierto por Obras. It has been extracted from the plantation of 7000 sunflowers it has cultivated on Gran Vía del Sureste Avenue during the summer of 2016 with the community of the Ensanche de Vallecas area on the very southeasternmost edge of Madrid. An impossible public space welcoming everyone […]
São Paulo 2013 Mexico D.F. 2014 Madrid 2014 More images Caixa de Som is a public interactive installation for playing with the city street sounds. Caixa de Som is a musical instrument for children under 99 years old, created to ease people interaction and interaction with the public space. With Caixa de Som you […]
The City is For Playing ephemerally hacked two of Sao Paulo´s most central highlines for the Virada Cultural festival. Viaduto do Chá and ‘Minhocão’ (elevado Costa e Silva) under spaces remain abbandoned decades after their construction and are the perfect examples of wasted spaces of the modernist metropolis. Just with some swings made of ropes, […]
Never before has been such ABUNDANCE. As José Luis Pardo said in his talk named Never was trash so beautiful: “Book One of Marx’s ‘The Capital’ opens thus: ‹‹The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as “an immense accumulation of commodities”››. Today, we would have to say […]
When we take off our feet from the floor, extraordinary things happen. When we get out from this ground we are used to stay, we also get out from our confort space and we notice thing we usually don´t notice. We open the dors and windows of learning. This is the aim of ‘Gatos’, an […]