Idea by
Jesus Meseguer Cortes
Call for ideas 2019
The Waste Archive
The Waste Archive
- New alliances
Waste lost its place in the world when it became abandoned. It needs to be displaced to recover the identity it once lost, to reactivate, transform, extinguish. In the city of Cadiz (Spain), we discover how its buildings turned into rubble. Abandoned landscapes disappear from the local collective memory. Throughout these territories, waste is disseminated, remaining isolated, condemned to oblivion. The intention of the project is to detect these wastelands in order to reinterpret them, redefining their lost identity. As support for this new typology, we selected the Island of San Sebastian, because it acts as a miniature version of the city, reproducing its state of ruin. The architectural interventions will act upon the pre-existing pathologies of their support, transforming space into experience. These procedural pieces respond to their context by building a project between an Earthwork and a Museum of Natural Sciences. The island of San Sebastian thus becomes a Waste Archive.
The Waste Archive
The Waste Archive
- New alliances
Waste lost its place in the world when it became abandoned. It needs to be displaced to recover the identity it once lost, to reactivate, transform, extinguish. In the city of Cadiz (Spain), we discover how its buildings turned into rubble. Abandoned landscapes disappear from the local collective memory. Throughout these territories, waste is disseminated, remaining isolated, condemned to oblivion. The intention of the project is to detect these wastelands in order to reinterpret them, redefining their lost identity. As support for this new typology, we selected the Island of San Sebastian, because it acts as a miniature version of the city, reproducing its state of ruin. The architectural interventions will act upon the pre-existing pathologies of their support, transforming space into experience. These procedural pieces respond to their context by building a project between an Earthwork and a Museum of Natural Sciences. The island of San Sebastian thus becomes a Waste Archive.