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Where is the mime? Reviewing some Fisac \u200b\u200b

(On the Square apse of the Cathedral of Tortosa. A draft Arquitecturia, Olga i Camps Josep Felip)

from the above article posted on the Civic Center Ferreries this have spent a few things, cas all good: the study has been awarded Leaf Award for best European team of young architects, precisely because the Civic Center. They have won some others, such as AJAC. The day I visited the Center Josep showed me, also, the square, which I will now. The articles are, therefore, sets, and contemplate the two works. This project was also nominated for the awards Leaf. And, curiously, I kept it in second place because I liked more than the first: it is simultaneously more discreet, more daring, more radical, more mature. And I like better, no offense, therefore, the Civic Center's architecture is not exclusive.

The plaza has a timeless character. Their way of integrating into the place is evil: everything we see is new. Not only new, invented. The trick is that there was no square. There was never a place, indeed. In fact, not only was the place. Therefore, the applications are new. The situation created here so it fits in place that always seems to have existed. Leave indeed completely false everything that had previously been the backbone of the space so everything looks decent plan based on the square. Besides the architecture does not renounce nor the will to define a positive space, avoiding the negative way to organize the rest, work on already hard enough, or the formal autonomy of the intervention.

mechanism project: see the place. Know from having lived (Josep Camps is Tortosa of birth), for having done the right questions, and have extensively investigated.

Tortosa: Roman villa. After Muslim. Christian reconquest. In the early twentieth century (especially after the First World War) began its decline after the Civil War becomes a debacle, to the extreme of being, in all likelihood, the city of its size and importance over gradient Catalonia. Maybe even today. Until a few hundred years was navigable Ebro Zaragoza. Tortosa controlled river traffic brutal economic importance, coal shipments Baix Cinca included. It was the river gate.

The city had spread, always, on the left bank of the Ebro Dato important given that the first fixed bridge that crossed the river data permanently from shortly before the Civil War. Until then had only been, and also recently, floating (pontoon bridge). The old city stretches as a wedge to be parallel to the river with the old, of Muslim descent, climbing to the Suda (the castle), in a state, even today, extreme degradation. On the river we find the Bishop's Palace, a Gothic building more of the Palace of the Generalitat, a third smaller than that. The building exceeds the street, architectural quality, as important as episcopal sees Vic and Solsona. Across a narrow street parallel to the river, and it stuck on the hillside, is the Cathedral, also Gothic, with three naves.

Like much of the Mediterranean Gothic it is located attached to other buildings, surrounded, always, with narrow streets that open the doors too large for the voltage generated by a box so small urban: beautiful architectural paradigms.

is impossible to go around without leaving much of it by its south, as it has been incorporated into a block of houses. Inside the cathedral presents an almost unique characteristic: the apse has two deambulatorios, the second as result of not building the side chapels, which should serve as the first, places of worship are lost and won in spatial quality. This resource has already been used for the same Arquitecturia at the Civic Center Ferreries market, when knocked down existing stores (Josep Camps himself called the 'cliques' I do not know whether consciously or not) to create a walkway that is easily equated This second ambulatory: everything is connected.

In section the cathedral was stuck in the middle slope, Snorkel on the access road and accessible by a stairway that now was pretty mediocre demolished to make worse, which is part of a development plan that aims to fool the cathedral open to the river, knocking a chunk of a block of houses that front the street, creating a pseudo-urban paradigm to further confuse the alleged Cultural tourists coming to visit the site (which, on the other hand, is well worth a visit).

In the back there was a sea of \u200b\u200burban senior mark, the city was still rising and the topographic difference between the inside, at level of entry, and the exterior of the apse, to level the hill, it was resolved using the curtain wall of apse (a powerful stone wall that can easily have more than one meter thick) as a retaining wall. It continued to gain height producing a set of ramps to connect with the final slope to connect the bottom of the city to the neighborhood of the Suda. It was never intended that this system produjese spatiality and, until the intervention of the Arquitecturia the place was simply a vehicle lumpenaparcamiento where cars and pedestrians negotiating an unsafe area without the slightest trace of identity.

des drawing that I went to as a guide to analyze Arquitecturia previous state: to analyze the design of cars (coinciding with reality) is revealing ...

Analyzing the (fun) drawing prices Arquitecturia state: a series of cars drawn haphazardly, ignoring drawn up a few stairs there. Some of them would have difficulty getting out and most have good parking lot to maneuver. The drawing is accurate. I remember the place because I know the city from long ago.

own way of drawing the vehicle motion also suggests a step incessant turning vehicles outside of the apse, pedestrian circulation between them.

Two ramps considerable climbing toward a series of streets located many feet above our heads, six, seven, ten. Terraces, steps. The city is looking over herself. The roof of the cathedral as one of its most important fronts. Some of the planks match the walls of the Medina, it would not be known until later.

The project is exactly what we always must have been there. As Tortosa: Collage of references polished with an approach that gives them a full formal independence. No side by side, not twinned, melt, knotted together, cooked, allowed to stand. Probably good architecture is this. The origin: a street loaded. What it does if it can be replaced with a ladder? Suddenly the west facade and north retaining wall alone form an integrated space. Fill saves and organizes a topographical differences between the square and the back walls.

Digging: Find the limit of the foundation of the cathedral. The apse finally ceases to be a retaining wall. Displayed its foundation-stone of good solid base.

photomontage: Arquitecturia

The result: a slightly inclined plane with a cup-shaped boundary that surrounds, which underlines the apse exterior. This plan serves as a concrete platform that carries its own light, a business plan where to look and be seen: a theater. A scenario that eventually negotiated his surrender with the pre-existing site, the street to the north, the south portal. The limits you fill and wrap. Fabulous: do not touch the apse. Doing so reminded of the character retaining wall that was old. Explanation: Before things worked. No more. A thick wall. Stone holds the field. Max slips a little water technicians to drain the cathedral. The test operation is very simple: no one has fallen. Now we have to justify everything. The details of construction, calculations, samples. The bureaucracy refuses life sentence to a meaningless legal vacuum. The solution is very elegant. Perhaps because he played. Perhaps mature, constructive solutions of the past does not make sense here, and the team of architects has revealed. But they do have?

Let the embankment, saving many meters. In the top one is a pure street stairs and houses arranged on-the-wall-of-contention-that-might-be-a-wall ahead. And, simply, are reached by ladder. But it can not be any stairs. How's the Laurentian Library? Look at the pictures.

Michellangello Buonarotti: Laurentian Library

The rest: no theater without steps. The Greeks knew it. Well, the Greeks and Shakespeare, the famous Chinese dramatist. The Globe (as the Comedy Corral de Almagro) is, above all, a square, an urban situation that allows a group of people watch a drama. Or a tragedy or a comedy, the only possible forms of popular theater (more details, Aristotle's Poetics). Thus, Greece by geographic theater, Lope de Vega, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Calderon de la Barca (all great playwrights Chinese) and rebirth as popular theater, street. The decision is made.

southern access to the square of the city gate, mouth stage, theater.

The stands will remain open. There are concentric to the apse, but spun the space and leading to the city, to the River. South (contact the site) are transformed, by folding, Laurentian scale. Retaining wall on the north, a series of formal exercises of concrete can create something similar to a staircase, very comfortable to climb, ending at the top with a more conventional topographical bridges the gap could not be resolved the stands. Additionally, this step can have a key to space control: a stump of concrete, abstract mix between short staff and control tower, where they have lights to illuminate the space, single point of light designed as such in space.

photo: Pedro Pegenaute

The square has been designed with only two materials: concrete and steel. Virtually all steel is visible in the form of 10mm thick plates that form the drains (obviously vandalism) and locksmiths, including concrete staff. Also embedded in the concrete to perform together. Construct a concrete pavement by the cracks. Here, this is solved by giving the floor the same module as a stone slab, about 40 cm, a width slightly higher. To do this was restated mesh sheets 10 cm tilted edge that spot has reopened the surveyor to form the slope of the pavement. Each module has an LED embedded iGuzzini, so that the illumination of the space is produced by the same pavement. There is no furniture in the whole square. Anything you need is built into the architecture. I use this word because, in fact any other well-resolved urban space with furniture catalog will be integrated. It must be said that there are few opportunities for these well-resolved, in Catalonia. But there are.

plant construction

The pavement design is used to enhance the dynamic nature of space: rethinking the longitudinal lines are curved, concentric to the ambulatory. Transverse lines have strange deformed module, which coincides with the width of the LED lamp, a perfect square.

This system drains into the apse of the cathedral, where the fence that protects it delivers along with its bare foundation. Thus, the concrete is not delivered against the square but against metal, and appears a cushion between two very similar materials.

The concrete retaining walls and the bleachers have worked, in parts, in bulk, unassembled. Is fully dyed a beige off, earthy, matte, which equates with the stone of the cathedral. Its texture is smooth, but in some places, such as the risers of the stairs, has formwork river rods arranged vertically, giving it a rough texture, dark, as if abujardado. The little locksmith's in the square is an impeccably elegant: it pays to dwell on the details of construction, beautiful, giving a fragile look about as robust plates many projects would fall into coarseness.

whole square breathe a cult classicism, nothing impostada: References are dimmed, faded, the project integrates and sends them all over.

This reinforces the role that this place has been given a very subtle way: the social condenser. Square (a new place where there was none) aims to contribute to the transformation of the old district of Tortosa, which, combined with urban degradation has a major exchange of marginality. It became really insecure walk there, and remember do not make many years, walking the streets at a few yards of this place populated by buildings completely enrunados even partially demolished, where people still lived. A few years ago came second in the competition for the rehabilitation of the house Grego, one of the major works of Pau Mongie, located about fifty meters from the plaza. The winner has not built anything, and maintain the same differential settlement. You can put your fingers in the bullet holes opened during the Civil War. The forum, charming, modest, wood, corner, has lost all the windows. I'm worried.

Against this, Arquitecturia has opposed a well-built theater. The best example to understand the creation of places is a question that Joseph told me that he did in the study: "And where we put the mime?" And yes, there have been theatrical. The square you want to integrate. Wants to treat everyone the same, and is built with the same determination if you were at the center of Venice.

Arquitecturia iGuzzini negotiated a contract for maintenance and replacement of broken pavement LED lights: you can not give them to your location. Without demagoguery or stridency, this is a good example of educational architecture.