Diocesan Residence | Andrés Jaque - Office for Political Innovation
Plasencia / Spain / 2006
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Historically, the Catholic Church has defined the territory by superposing two occupation structures: an ideological one, tree-shaped and with the vertex at the Vatican; and another one of distribution in indirect5 action cores, around interconnected diocese-nodes. This pattern of implantation has arbitrated the social relations and the insertion in the territory of individual linked to the Church, while currently the clerical population in Europe experiences a fast aging process, which makes it difficult to maintain an individual attention model.
The intervention for the Diocesan Residence in Plasencia is the device that articulates this transformation through the activation of a series of transfers, understood as synthesis and approximation of linkage elements between the expanded landscape and users (parts of ecosystems: cork oak meadow and pond, cherry tree valley, lemon tree orchard; memory-objects: benches, books, canopies, clouds, lamps, chimneys; sensitive contacts: limestone plaster, paving stones, shade, scents) thanks to the mediation of low-tech devices, and of invitations to participate, as elements that stimulate reactions in the inhabitants and favor associations and shared uses- All in all, a construction of opportunities.
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Historically, the Catholic Church has defined the territory by superposing two occupation structures: an ideological one, tree-shaped and with the vertex at the Vatican; and another one of distribution in indirect5 action cores, around interconnected diocese-nodes. This pattern of implantation has arbitrated the social relations and the insertion in the territory of individual linked to the Church, while currently the clerical population in Europe experiences a fast aging process, which makes...
- Year 2006
- Work finished in 2006
- Client Obispado de Plasencia
- Cost 3.065.000
- Status Completed works
- Type Multi-family residence
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