Centro de Talasoterapia en Gijón, Asturias
En Plataforma Arquitectura , están exhibiendo esta semana este proyecto diseñado por la firma Grupo Aranea de Valencia, España. La verdad nunca había oído hablar de esta firma española pero por lo menos con respecto a este proyecto se ve muy prometedora. El proyecto es un centro para Talasoterapia (Terapia Marina). Al margen de la metáfora marina y las formas zigzagueantes, el proyecto tiene un dote modernista que me parece muy interesante. Habría que ver como proponen la cobertura del techo y como pretenden resolver el encuentro entre el terreno y el techo…Véalo aquí…
1 Junio 2006 a las 2:56 am
“On Site: New Architecture in Spain”, Museum of Modern Art, NY
The New YorK Times, 10 feb 2006
A Survey of Spain, Architects’ Playground
By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF
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“One of the loveliest surprises in “On Site” is a design for a spa and hotel
complex in Gijón, a small former mining town in the north. The architects,
Francisco Leiva Ivorra, 33, and Marta García, 31, are the youngest in the
show, and the influence of older architects like Alvaro Siza and Ms. Hadid
is obvious. Yet the project has an intuitive feel for both its physical
surroundings and the scale of the human body.
Mr. Leiva has compared the complex, at one end of a public beach, to a
salamander curled up in the sun. Its smooth form also evokes a stone that
has been polished by the movements of the sea. Pedestrians will be able to
proceed from the city’s boardwalk to a walkway along the building’s roof
that ends with a stunning view of the historic city center. Below, water
flows through a narrow channel from the sea to a central pool. The roof is
pierced by a series of slots, allowing light to reflect off secondary pools
and onto the building’s underbelly.
You sense a balance of conflicting urges toward solitude and engagement with
the outside world, the longing for public interaction and for sensual
intimacy. There are no wasted gestures, none of the clamoring for visual
attention that infects so much contemporary architecture.
Mr. Leiva and Ms. García are too young to remember the era of Franco, who
died in 1975; their design has a lightness of touch free of dark memories.
It makes clear that the political boundaries that long separated Spain from
the rest of the world have utterly melted away.”
Los Angeles Times, 13 feb 2006
Spain expands on its sense of place
MoMA captures the dialogue between the local and cosmopolitan in the
nation’s designs
By Christopher Hawthorne, Times Staff Writer
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“Although “On-Site” includes designs by the globe-trotting architectural
celebrities Rem Koolhaas, Frank Gehry, Herzog & De Meuron, Toyo Ito and Zaha
Hadid, it features many more Spanish architects, a good number of them
emerging talents - Francisco Leiva Ivorra, anyone? - who have yet to earn an
international reputation.”
(…)
1 Junio 2006 a las 12:35 pm
Me parece excelente! Espana hace un buen tiempo que se esta ubicando en la vanguardia de la arquitectura con personajes como Manuel Gausa, Abalos y Herreros… y otros.