Memory
Surfaces of Affective Memories _ Paula Melâneo
− Hut in Fichtelberg _ AFF Architekten
− House C, A Refurbished Hay Barn _ Campovono Baumgartner Architekten
− Manor House Stables _ AR Design Studio
− Garden Tree House _ Hironaka Ogawa & Associates
New Reality from Old Industrial Site
Turning Former Industrial Sites into New Realities _ Tom Van Malderen
− Danish National Maritime Museum _ BIG
− Valparaíso Cultural Park _ HLPS Arquitectos
− Landscape Laboratory _ Cannata & Fernandes Arquitectos
− Casa Mediterraneo Headquarters _ Manuel Ocaña
− Conde Duque _ Carlos de Riaño Lozano
− Can Ribas Factory Renovation _ Jaime J. Ferrer Forés
Liberal and Functional
University Faculty Building Typology
New Monuments to Knowledge _ Aldo Vanini
− Roberto Garza Sada Center for Arts, Architecture and Design _ Tadao Ando Architect & Associates
− Health Faculty of San Jorge University _ Taller Básico de Arquitectura
− Medical School, Student Residences at the University of Limerick _ Grafton Architects
− Vienna University’s Law and Administration Buildings _ CRAB Studio
C3 no.353 (2014 #1/12)
Memory
Surfaces of Affective Memories _ Paula Melâneo
In its etymological sense, Memory is the faculty of retaining ideas and images, as a mental process. It consists of a complex system of relations which is part of human life and culture, with its own reflexes in architecture.
Bringing literature as an analogy and the words of the North-American fiction writer Paul Auster “Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time”, by this extent, architecture projects dealing with memory might represent a second opportunity to construct a narrative, where some guidelines are deliberately chosen and introduced by the architects.
Related with the times past, the featured projects are concerned about retrieving part of a local atmosphere, history or identity, circumscribed in a physical space and within a group of people.
Somehow the genius loci (the spirit of a place) is preserved here, by understanding the environment, the human existence and life roots – at a local level –, and by creating new meaningful places for contemporary lifestyle.
Rehabilitation and re-use acquire a very special and specific sense in each project. The existing constructed elements don’t maintain the same functions and the materials are not re-used per se – just like stones from pagan constructions were used to build catholic churches – but they are worked-out because they have a history or a narrative attached to its surface. As a palimpsest, these proposals act as new medium to re-write everyday histories.
C3 no.353 (2014 #1/12)
Memory
Surfaces of Affective Memories _ Paula Melâneo
In its etymological sense, Memory is the faculty of retaining ideas and images, as a mental process. It consists of a complex system of relations which is part of human life and culture, with its own reflexes in architecture.
Bringing literature as an analogy and the words of the North-American fiction writer Paul Auster “Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time”, by this extent, architecture projects dealing with memory might represent a second opportunity to construct a narrative, where some guidelines are deliberately chosen and introduced by the architects.
Related with the times past, the featured projects are concerned about retrieving part of a local atmosphere, history or identity, circumscribed in a physical space and within a group of people.
Somehow the genius loci (the spirit of a place) is preserved here, by understanding the environment, the human existence and life roots – at a local level –, and by creating new meaningful places for contemporary lifestyle.
Rehabilitation and re-use acquire a very special and specific sense in each project. The existing constructed elements don’t maintain the same functions and the materials are not re-used per se – just like stones from pagan constructions were used to build catholic churches – but they are worked-out because they have a history or a narrative attached to its surface. As a palimpsest, these proposals act as new medium to re-write everyday histories.
