URBAN SPACE INVADERS UNIVERSIDAD EUROPEA MADRID
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URBAN SPACE INVADERS UNIVERSIDAD EUROPEA MADRID 2014-15 GROUPWORK WITH MIA GOMMI
Regarding the fact that Spain is currently facing an immobility crisis, resulting in an abundance of "skeleton buildings" without any finishing. We want to create a procces in which we install a regular scaffolding system which can be easily applied to existing unfinished structures, only made out of slaps and walls, and "fill it up" with a collection of adjustable modular balconies. We took inspiration of a similar project, the Lacaton & Vasal restauration in Paris in which they added more than 3500 square meters to an existing building of almost 9000 square meter's by adding a supplementing facade of balconies and/or winter gardens.
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THE COLLECTION We wanted to create a similar concept as Lacaton & Vasal, but with a free-er approach, so we created a panelling system making a variaties of programmes and configurations possible. Each user can make their own adaptation and compose a personal program. The result of this proces is a catalogue of different modules. The collection of configurations can be put together in different ways, offering a different set-up each time and a wide variety of scenarions. The process of installing the scaffolding and inserting the balconies is time-wise very economic, and is temporary, so it can also easily be taken off, for exemple when the budget to finish the building is available. Thus it can be a temporary solution giving inhabitants all the possibilities to “invade� the urban structure.
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