Acebo X Alonso Arquitectos . photos: © Rafael Trapiello . + divisare
We love to read the marks of previous occupants in the houses we inhabit, and this somewhat morbid curiosity shaped the idea that a building is kind of a time capsule that contains stories, memories, also information. And to act on it, rehabiting or refurbishing, it is necessary to open that capsule, with the risk of breaking it.
In Pontejos 9, we carefully scratched a wall or picked up a carpet; then we would stop and look under it. We can not explain exactly why some things interested us more than others; many of the presences that we found in the building were vulgar and we could not say that the ancient object in itself was too impressive at first. Its symbolic content was not enough either, it was just another block of housing from the beginnigs of twentieth century, one of many that the industrial bourgeoisie built to accommodate the growing citizenship of Madrid. Definitely , it was out of our culture. Continue reading Acebo X Alonso
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