The assignment was to devise a strategy to make the music festival Festimad easier to install and nicer and more interesting to enjoy in its new location. The idea was to produce a series of “infrastructure plugs” that would allow for different space tools and gadgets to be connected depending on necessities. These “plugs” would be easily activated or deactivated. This proposal reduced the Festimad need of yearly expenses on infrastructure, while offering urban services in a large area of previously dejected public space. Around these “plugs”, different uses are distributed according to distance and required density of services.
Tipo de proyecto: Reversible
Youth Fair Juvenalia
The spatial organization of a fair is a monotone, dreary affair; for a celebration like Juvenalia (a youth fair in Madrid), then, it can be a problem. We tried to intensify its basic features: displays and attractions are concentrated as much as possible, while at the access we leave a large eventless space. To the mandatory streets, a diagonal is added. Contrast between crammed and labyrinthine space and another one that is free and open. Spatial organization as entertainment: combined with a location system, the entire fair becomes the site of a game of hide and seek. The façade of the exhibitors and attractions overlooking the open space is full of projections, the biggest one being the location panel of the hide and seek game.
Olympic Games Athens ‘04
While Athens does not have a lack in housing, it does lack green space. The arrival of the Olympics provides the opportunity to create open areas associated to infrastructure and tertiary uses integrated in the city, instead of making another tired ‘Olympic village’. It is also possible to consider the use of the surrounding office buildings as a more logical kind of Olympic accommodation: Contemporary problems such as the need for heightened security are a second nature to the office building.Their intrinsic flexibility allows for the complete reconfiguration of each floor plan, making the adaptation of the spaces for athlete accommodation extremely easy. As the Olympic games take place during Athens’ summer vacation period a considerable amount of office space could be up for athlete’s habitation use. Each athlete receives a room supplied with furniture made from recycled cardboard that is easy and fast to assemble. Each piece of furniture is financed by one of the main Olympic Games Partner companies. A game between each piece of furniture and its sponsor is established.
