Project from pre-existence. Daría de Seta

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The architecture table 10

Library

General public, Professionals

29 February 2024

Daría de Seta. Architect. "Designing from Pre-existence" - A Cultural and Sustainable Approach to Place.

-Attention to Place.

The architectural project aims to be a process guided by the character of the place (condensed from society, territory, landscape, culture, environment), an opportunity to read and reinterpret what exists, whether natural or anthropized, urban or rural, center or periphery, historical heritage or abandoned area. The transformation of the place and its surroundings produced by the architectural intervention becomes a precious opportunity to re-read, adapt and enhance the riches of the context.

-Dialogue Between the Existing and the New.

Far from interpreting the project as a conservative process, we believe that the aspect we project through our work should be the result of a contemporary sensibility capable of dialoguing with the present, with those who use it today. The project should propose solutions that speak the language of those who live there, being images of our time. To add an honest piece to the mosaic of the history of places, it is essential to escape historicism, mimicry and, instead, it is necessary to operate in a contemporary key.

– What is Really Necessary?

Answering this question before beginning to design solutions is very important to us. For some time now we have been convinced that, to achieve the best project, solutions with the greatest expressive and conceptual impact are fundamental to understanding what is strictly necessary, not only in terms of reducing impacts and costs, but above all in terms of rigor and precision. Analysis of needs and existing qualities. An ethical way of relating through our profession to the world in which we live and investigating new forms of beauty.

Coordinates: Santiago Varela

Collaborates: College of Architects of Alicante

Information

Opening hours: 7:00 PM
Duration: 90 minutes
Type of activity: Design and Architecture
Modality: At the museum

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The Museum of Contemporary Art in Alicante whose collections are formed by works created fundamentally in the twentieth century. They range from the so-called avant-gardes to all the approaches and artistic manifestations that took place in the decades of the second half of the past century. They are expressed on different supports and materials, with diverse dimensions and techniques. In turn, the temporary exhibitions are related to these collections and allow for expanding or deepening some aspects of contemporary chronology. However, contemporary architecture is absent from both the permanent collections and those temporary manifestations.The architecture of the MACA itself, a project created and directed by the Sancho Madridejos Studio, is a beautiful building of great functional efficiency. The syncopated projection of horizontal and vertical spaces establishes a formal order based on the geometry and texture of the materials used in construction, while revealing a kind of tension resolved by the overhead passage of light, a kind of "felt" spirituality more emotional than real.The MACA proposes in a conversational format, meetings around art and architecture around the architect's table. In the MACA Library, the last Thursdays of each month, from January to May 2015.This first cycle will consist of different manifestations. The first and fundamental one will show works by an architect related through his vital and professional activity to the province of Alicante. The selection criterion will be conditioned by the modernity of the proposals, understanding that modernity, first of all, in a chronological sense, attending to those architectures and architects who were protagonists and participants in the advent of contemporaneity. The exhibition of some models will allow for offering three-dimensional models, reclaiming the model as such, as the authors of the Renaissance defended. And to illustrate the complete work process, sketches and preliminary drawings will be shown alongside the project plans and notes developed during the construction process. All of this with the ultimate aim of understanding and grasping in some way the constructed space.The architect's table, a table from 1912, real and present (deposited in the MACA by its owner Alfonso Navarro Guzmán), serves as an ideological foundation to link the exhibitions and will serve as the material support for the models so that we can traverse, while dreaming, the imagined space.

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