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Juan Gatica

Juan Gatica

Miami, FL, US

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Architectural Palimpsest - Rethinking the Architecture School

How do the existing Architecture School as a building-structure adapts to the new ways of thinking, working, learning and researching?

PAL-IMP-SEST:
1. “A manuscript or piece of writing material on which later writing has been superimposed on effaced earlier writing” (1)
2. “Something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form.” (1)

The leit motiv of the intervention is the concept of Architectural Palimpsest. By taking the preexisting elements of the building (enormous murals flanking East and West facades) and by adaptation and transformation, the answer to the main question resulted on a new way of looking and interpreting the old building-structure.

 
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Status: School Project
Location: Caracas, VE