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Ignacio Balbona

Ignacio Balbona

Philadelphia, PA, US

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My thesis project.

In this project the focus was to activate a whole area where the confrontation between a countrified space and an industrial area reaches a boiling point as they share ground. Restoring the lake shore, creating a live public space, where only abandoned buildings exist today.

A fire station is required for this project, butough some parts of it will be for hire, facilitating the community use it, and also meeting the economic needs for construction. 

The structure wraps around the space, leaving the trusses exposed as a living part of the insides, leaving all the boxes hanging off in between voids, light-filtered through a prefabricated skin.

 
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Status: School Project
Location: Arteixo, Spain