{"id":11698,"date":"2021-02-25T14:56:17","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T14:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-zeppelin.ro\/en\/?p=11698"},"modified":"2021-02-25T15:03:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T15:03:09","slug":"beacon-boundary-marker-cocoon-and-bricolage-cultural-center-and-auditorium-plasencia-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-zeppelin.ro\/en\/beacon-boundary-marker-cocoon-and-bricolage-cultural-center-and-auditorium-plasencia-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Beacon, Boundary Marker, Cocoon, Bricolage. Cultural Center and Auditorium, Plasencia, Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From most of the photographs circulated on the Internet, especially at a cursory glance, the Plasencia auditorium appears to have been randomly thrown into a field, in an absurdly peripheral position, yet another of those many self-sufficient objects, planted in the middle of nowhere by egotistic local administrations and architects. <\/p>\n

It is certainly not the case. What might seem at first an act of power is in reality a gesture of tenderness.<\/p>\n

Project: Selgascano<\/strong>
\nText: Ștefan Ghenciulescu<\/strong>
\nPhoto credit: Laurian Ghinițoiu<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The building does not sit outside the city boundary but on top of it, between the natural landscape (with its harsh beauty typical of the Extremadura region) and the newest residential neighborhoods of a small but old and proud city that looks forward to growing. Between the two worlds stretches the highway; on the “natural” side of that highway, the site of the Center.<\/p>\n

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While located inside the natural landscape, the building clearly belongs to the city. It is obliged to work as an urban extension. selgascano opted for ensuring that their intervention belongs to the natural setting as much as possible, barely touching the original landscape, namely a steep slope that starts right behind the highway, and for keeping it as separate as possible from the level and logic of the city.<\/p>\n

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Hence the solution of isolation and extreme concentration: only the smallest part of the building is rooted in the ground, and from there it grows without ever touching the natural terrain again. The link with the city is created in the most delicate way, through a gangway that starts from the street level and reaches 12 meters above the ground-floor. Cantilevered off the ground, the concentrated object thus keeps the field clear and marks an ending of the city at the same time. It works as a boundary marker: this is how far we are supposed to grow.<\/p>\n

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