Rehabilitation of a Building

Status: Academic Project

Tutor: Alessandro Scarnato

Collaborators: Fernando Contreras

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Certain buildings come with a negative historical and emotional charge due to the program they housed: The jail is one of them. Although these buildings play a significant role in society, and at first were part of the urban fabric, with the evolution of cities, security issues and because communities do not usually want them near their homes, they have been projected outside the cities. This is how these urban islands begin to appear with a solid potential to be reintegrated into the urban fabric.

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The interest that the community around La Model has towards the building obliges us to carefully intervene the space in order to connect it to the city without losing its most important architectural qualities. This becomes an exercise of cleaning and rearranging that must be done with the upmost respect. Our proposal modifies the current reality by creating new possibilities within the existing, resulting in a new exciting space that’s not isolated from the city anymore but that still has some secrets that are worth keeping.