The festival, promoted by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda (MIVAU) in collaboration with the Arquia Foundation, is an initiative that annually proposes an ideas contest aimed at young architecture professionals in the national territory that promotes innovation and experimentation through the construction of a temporary pavilion in different cities. The event, which celebrates its third edition this year, aims to respond to new challenges in urban design by addressing social, climate and mobility issues.
A part of the Atlantic soul
A part of the Atlantic soul
"En Galicia hai o Mar de dentro e o Mar de fóra". The first translates into the peaceful calm that comes with arriving home; The second, unlimited in extension and dangerous in condition, but of great beauty, is the place from which everyone wishes to return.
The winning proposal, by Óscar Cruz García and Pablo Paradinas Sastre, narrates the link between two seas based on the significant elements that compose it. On the one hand, the Galician raft as the main structure, which is given a second life on land, made up of wood that during its useful life faces extreme conditions and becomes strong, resisting the cold Atlantic waters, which makes it confers a unique personality of great aesthetic, cultural and sentimental value and special resistance. On the other hand, and as a claim and shelter, the system of traditional fishing nets that make up its cover, represents the hard work of the neteiras, who have historically played a key role in the primary sector of the area without being recognized.
¡Qué faena(r)! TAC! 2024 by Óscar Cruz and Pablo Paradinas. Photograph by José Guilherme Marques.
¡Qué faena(r)! TAC! 2024 by Óscar Cruz and Pablo Paradinas. Photograph by José Guilherme Marques.
The project, proposed from a gender, sustainable and collaborative perspective, manages not only to create an object or a space but also to tell a story. Recovering the wood from rafts and fishing nets to carry out the project implies giving use to something that, in addition to contributing to sustainability by avoiding the felling of trees and giving a second life to the material resources of the area, provides identity and expands The range of possibilities of crafts and workers in the area gives visibility to an essential job that is being lost little by little.
Local tradition as a driving force for new architectural practices
Through this project, we can see how, through traditional solutions, innovative solutions can be provided that merge different perspectives and ways of doing things and make visible a tradition that involves the community and allows it to transcend and go further.
The new dialectics proposed in the competition will be collected from June 13 to July 14 at the Official College of Architects of Galicia (COAG), which hosts an exhibition that shows 30 outstanding projects from the call for the design of the temporary pavilion of Vigo, where different approaches come together to highlight the dialogue between the past and history of the city and the contemporaneity and new ways of doing things, between the industrialized and the artisanal, emerging practices and history, innovation and experimentation and where questions are raised about the role of the citizen in the urban space and the creation of environments that provide well-being to citizens, that rehumanize and renaturalize cities.
