Concatenation of rooms and spatial procession. Types of spaces by Palma & Hanghar

Under the name "Types of spaces" the project designed by the studios Palma and Hanghar, on the occasion of the "Concéntrico Architecture Festival", returns to the place where it is located its condition of built space.

From a series of rooms, a spatial procession of corridors and rooms of domestic character is formed, reconstructing the leisure of the passage of the old Tobacco Factory of La Rioja.

Types of spaces by Palma & Hanghar. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz.

In the intervention by Palma and Hanghar, the interior rooms seek to provide the user who walks through them with an unexpected atmospheric experience, returning to an exterior condition that reminds the walker of the public nature of the intervention.

The rooms are built with 30x30cm thermo-clay bricks that give the project a familiar and cozy condition thanks to the use of a material so typical of the collective imagination.

Description of project by Palma & Hanghar

The project is located in the passage of the old Tobacco Factory of La Rioja, an urban space of narrow and elongated dimensions, filled by a monumental red brick chimney. The project restores the site to its status as a built space by consolidating the facades and giving the tobacco factory as a whole its original unity. The interior is articulated through the concatenation of a series of square rooms of 3.6x3.6m that form a spatial procession of corridors and rooms of domestic character, thus reconstructing the emptiness of the passage.

The rooms, open to the sky, explore various spatial possibilities through a rotund geometry in plan while its domestic scale, so far away from the public space of the city, moves the occupant from visitor to inhabitant, allowing the possibility of interacting with the installation in a deeper way. The interior rooms provide those who pass through them with an unexpected atmospheric experience, which returns the inhabitant to an exterior condition that reminds him of the public nature of the intervention.

These sort of programmatically generic but spatially specific spaces are built with 30x30cm thermo clay bricks that give the project a familiar condition thanks to the use of a material so typical of the collective imaginary. Moreover, the brick block is both material and spatial unit of the project, generating a system of stereotomic appearance capable of veiling its tectonic logic thanks to the massiveness of its pieces. The floor, covered with discarded brick chips, gives the space material continuity while slowing down the passage of those who pass through it and providing a leisurely experience away from the bustle of the city.

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Architects

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Palma & Hanghar.

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Project team

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Palma.- Ilse Cárdenas, Regina de Hoyos, Diego Escamilla, Juan Luis Rivera. HANGHAR.- Eduardo Mediero.

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Collaborators

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Collaborators.- Jorge Mañas, Stefania Rasile. Bricks loaned.- Cerámica Sampedro.

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Builder

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Construcciones Calleja.

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2021.

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Logroño, Spain.

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Luis Díaz Díaz.

Ilse Cárdenas, Regina De Hoyos, Diego Escamilla & Juan Luis Rivera. PALMA

Palma is an architectural studio founded in 2016, with offices in Mexico City and Sayulita, and with offices in Europe thanks to its digital multi-location approach. Through a design process open to experimentation and exploration, Palma operates fluidly across diverse scales and typologies: from pavilions to urban infrastructure, including residential architecture and ephemeral installations.

Led by Ilse Cárdenas, Regina de Hoyos, and Diego Escamilla, Palma was recently honored in Vienna with the Brick Award 2024 in the Out of the Box category. The firm has received other accolades, including the COAM Emergente Award, given by the Official College of Architects of Madrid to architects under 35, and the League Prize from The Architectural League of New York, which since 1981 has celebrated the exemplary and provocative work of young practitioners in North America. Considered by Wallpaper* as one of the 20 most relevant emerging practices in the world, Palma was also named one of the "Best New Practices" by ArchDaily, one of the world's leading architecture platforms. Additionally, they were selected by The University of Virginia School of Architecture as the Michael Owen Jones Memorial Lecturer.

Palma's work has been published in national and international media. They have been invited to give workshops and lectures at various venues in Mexico, at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in China, and at the Higher Technical School of Architecture in Madrid.

Ilse Cárdenas, an architect from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, completed an exchange program at the Technical University of Lisbon in Portugal. In 2020, she was awarded a Young Creators Program scholarship by the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) for her project "Exclusivo | Excluyente, el lujo del encierro." She recently completed a master's degree in Political Architecture Critical Sustainability at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. Recipient of the 2021 CONACYT-FONCA scholarships to study abroad and the Jumex Contemporary Art Foundation Scholarship.

Regina de Hoyos, an architect from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, completed an exchange program at the Polytechnic of Turin.

Diego Escamilla, an architect from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, completed an exchange program at the Technical University of Lisbon in Portugal. In 2019, he was awarded a Young Creators Program scholarship from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) for his project "Awakening the Void, Pneumatic Breaths After the Earthquake." He recently completed the MPAA Master's Degree in Advanced Architectural Projects at the ETSAM School of Architecture in Madrid. Recipient of the 2020 CONACYT-FONCA scholarship to study abroad. He currently serves as a tutor in the architecture discipline of the PECDA 2023 program.

Eduardo Mediero. HANGHAR

HANGHAR is an architecture practice based in Madrid that works on the confluence between architectural precedents and financial organizational models. The practice develops projects from furniture design to housing developments and urbanism. HANGHAR is run by Eduardo Mediero since 2021.

Eduardo Mediero holds a Masters in Architecture with Honors from the Polytechnic University of Madrid and a Masters in Architecture from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. His work has been exhibited at the XIV Biennial of Spanish Architecture and Urbanism, the 16th and 15th Venice Architecture Biennale and the Colegio de Arquitectos de Madrid. Eduardo is the recipient of the 2018 KPF Traveling Fellowship, the Real Colegio Complutense Fellowship and the Arthur Lehman Fund. He is the inaugural Fishman Fellow at the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

Published on: October 21, 2021

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