While awaiting the necessary funds to carry out a restoration project for the port number 2 of the port of Valencia, the responsible consortium commissioned the rellam studio, at the end of 2016, an emergency intervention in the structure to be used until the beginning of the restoration works.

The project designed by Lluis J. Liñán, Andrea Gimeno and Josep Vicent Lluch, founders of rellam firm, consists in the temporary stabilization of the lateral bodies and, also, of the coating of the interior surface of the building for the protection of the load-bearing elements in front of the birds by means of a flame-retardant polyester mesh.

A minimal, easy and at the same time, elegant intervention.
 

Description of project by rellam

The warehouse nr. 2 of Valencia´s port, built in 1911 and designed by José María Fuster, is a building of particular signifying qualities. During its hundred years of existence, and due to a spatial configuration characterized by its lightness, permeability, and horizontality, it has been host of numerous activities,  most of them related to the storing and exporting of commercial goods until its transformation into a public building in the early nineties.  Since then, the warehouse has simultaneously been emptied out and filled with content.

Freed from logistic functions and apparently immune to adaptive reuse, it houses nowadays a myriad of sport and leisure activities proposed by an always changing landscape of users whose interests the building negotiates with ease. Unfortunately, the buzzing that results from the public appropriation of the space seems to be mimicked by a rapid wear of its architecture, subject to an accelerated process of deterioration that reveals itself in the corrosion of the cast-iron structure and the destabilization of some parts of the building.

Lacking sufficient funds to undertake an integral restoration–approved in 2015-, the public authorities responsible for the warehouse commissioned us in late 2016 an emergency intervention on the structure in order to avoid its closure to the public before the renovation could begin. The budget -42.000 euros- was used to patch up the roof, to temporarily stabilize those parts at risk of collapse, and, also, to encase the interior surface of the building with a translucent polyester fabric designed to limit the impact of pigeons and other birds on the load-bearing elements.

This fabric, relatively irrelevant from a functional perspective, becomes the most instrumental part of the intervention from an architectural perspective, for its abstraction and superficiality add a new meaning to the space enclosed by the warehouse –a meaning that not only reframes the activities that take place inside but, above all, has increased the presence of the building in the space of media. As active in this space as the users that gather in the warehouse on a daily basis, the images of the intervention have decisively contributed to a public debate on the necessary restoration of this horizontal void of the city, finally set to start in the second half of 2018.

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rellam (Andrea Gimeno, Lluis J. Liñán, Josep Vicent Lluch)
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Quantity surveyor.- Santiago Tormo
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Builder
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Trasejar
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Finish date.- February 2017
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La Marina de València
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RELLAM
Rellam is an small office composed by Andrea Gimeno, J. Linan and Xevi Lluis Lluch located in different cities depending on the time. Their works include the restoration of the Archpriest Church of Vinarós or sample design exhibition 'Pulchra Magistri' in the province of Castellon, in addition to several awards in national and international competitions.
Andrea Gimeno is an architect from the School of Architecture of Valencia and Master in Advanced Architectural Design from the Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid. She is a researcher in the Research Group on Collective Housing at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. She has worked in different architectural firms as Espegel-Fisac ​​in Madrid, van Belle & Medina in Antwerp or the Architecture, Design and Research Institute at the Harbin Institute of Technology.
Lluis J. Liñán an architect from the School of Valencia and Master in Advanced Architectural Design from the School of Madrid. Currently, Lluis is Wortham Fellow at Rice University School of Architecture, where he teaches Studios and a seminar focused on the influence of digital culture in the contemporary project, central theme of his academic research. In addition to founding Redial, Lluis has collaborated with various architectural firms as Mansilla + Tuñón and Manuel Portaceli.
Xevi Lluch is an architect by ETSA of Valencia since 2012. Currently holds architect in Valencia. He has served as a partner in architectural studies like Manuel Portaceli and has worked on the restoration of heritage buildings Carles hand Boigues. In turn he has also collaborated on the exhibition project of the exhibition Camins d'Art 'in Alcoy.
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Published on: January 19, 2018
Cite: "Emergency intervention in the Tinglado nº2 of the Port of Valencia by rellam" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/emergency-intervention-tinglado-no2-port-valencia-rellam> ISSN 1139-6415
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