Owing to its nature, the youth centre design project integrated spatial and conceptual themes that ultimately influenced all our other design projects, mainly ones that dealt closely with public programs.
Issues that have to do with sharing space as a complement between exclusively public areas and other conditioned areas in terms of access and interiors, or the building as a qualitative structure in the urban fabric, are handled unconditionally in our projects.
Due to this fact, for us, design project activity takes on cultural and contextual importance, widening its scope and becoming more universal than the immediate acceptance of a merely functional program or complying with a list of rules, regulations or norms.
In a society that is constantly bombarded by the power of the image (and communication), the ephemeral takes on particular relevance, not only due to the speed and the importance of communication networking and the global economy, but also because the formal (and functional) physical structures of our daily lives quickly become obsolete.
For us, design projects are tools of resistance against this tendency and in using them, they are means whereby we rediscover the values and potentialities of realities that are still present (or intrinsic) within imagined architectural urban structures, so that existing realities may be redeemed through the act of designing them whether this means rehabilitating buildings or starting afresh with new constructions.
For this reason, building up a project reveals itself to be of particular importance from a methodological or a constructive approach. On the one hand, the project's principles are based on the recognition of a set of classical architectural. However, the interpretation made by the design gives rise to spaces of uncertainty. In seeking the dynamics of the classical form together with the preciseness of construction, we propose lasting architectural structures.
We perceive Architecture and Urban Design as a social, political and economic act of great relevance. We believe that being an architect is taking an ethical stand, protecting the qualities of the architectonic space (even invisible spaces), stimulating the sensorial and creating opportunities for experimentation.
Our goal is to go beyond the average quality of construction (to say the least!), beyond the immediate undiscriminating acceptance of norms, technical data and digital catalogues, as well as programs and methods that only offer a non-risk society harmless responses.