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CRA is a set of support structures designed to temporarily transform one of the warehouses in Matadero Madrid into the Center for Artistic Residencies. Continue reading BURR Studio
Burr . photos: © Maru Serrano
MRT is part of “Elements for Industrial Recovery”, a strategical project which consists in protecting the city’s industrial heritage by finding alternative uses for these obsolete spaces that allow to keep them active and avoid its demolition. Continue reading Burr
Burr . photos: © Maru Serrano
Blasón is part of a project series called “Elements for industrial recovery” a strategic toolset to protect the city’s industrial heritage. Continue reading Burr
Industrial activity in the center of the city of Madrid has gradually decreased in the last 30 years to end up in the current situation: a foreseeable disappearance. The explosive rise in property value, noise- or environmental protection measures and traffic density, among other reasons, have led to a diaspora of industrial activity from the city center to the outskirts. Accordingly, industrial buildings in the urban fabric are under risk of extinction. Current urban planning regulations encourage property owners to change the land use from industrial to residential, which requires a reduction in the usable area, leading to the demolition of part of their properties: the warehouses. The incentive to make such conversions is provided by the real estate market, which causes the value of the plot to raise up to 4 times its original price when it is transformed into a residential space, mainly prompted by the rental price increase that the city is undergoing in the last years. This situation increasingly condemns the city to a single use and this typology to disappearance. Our proposals aim to become a strategic toolset to protect the industrial heritage of the city through land-use and occupation alternatives that allow to extend this typology’s life and avoid its demolition. Continue reading BURR
Burr. photos: © Maru Serrano
NN06 is a set of objects and interventions to transform an office into a house.
Without modifying the previously existing configuration of a former office in northern Madrid, the surface coverings of ceilings, floors and walls are removed to leave a raw base on which to act. This defines the massive, solid part of the project: the building. On the other hand a series of objects that look for openings and holes to fit in, that hang from the load-bearing walls or rest on the hard surfaces appear. This defines the light, removable part of the project: the furniture. Continue reading Burr
