La orilla, la marea, la corriente: Un caribe oceánico
A project by Ignacio G. Galán Alvaro M. Fidalgo Arantza Ozaeta
La propuesta arquitectónica de la exposición “la orilla, la marea, la corriente: un Caribe
oceánico” es resultado del encargo que la Feria ARCO Madrid hace a los arquitectos Ignacio G.
Galán, Arantza Ozaeta, y Alvaro M. Fidalgo. El proyecto, de unos 800 m2 de superficie,
materializa el marco conceptual de la propuesta curatorial en diálogo con 24 obras de arte
pertenecientes a 19 galerías, e incluye un foro para eventos y ponencias.
El texto curatorial de las comisarias Carla Acevedo-Yates y Sara Hermann Morera presenta una
visión relacional de el Caribe: “El Caribe no es un mar, es oceánico. Abordar el Caribe como un
océano implica refutar su condición insular, fragmentada y desconectada para acercarse a su
dimensión con brechas generadas por nuestra especie lo conectaron indisolublemente al Pacífico. Esta
condición con corrientes terrestres y subterráneas que facilitan el movimiento humano y no humano.”
La arquitectura de la sección presenta por un lado los flujos, encuentros, y confluencias y por
otro, los cortes, alejamientos, y desmembraciones que configuran este territorio. El diseño
traduce la lectura heterogénea de los contextos que se superponen en el Caribe mediante
espacios que se dilatan y comprimen en una planta configurada a través de muros que
combinan geometrías rígidas y ondulantes. Esta configuración posibilita conversaciones entre
las obras y define espacios envolventes para las proyecciones y el foro, a la vez que conectan el
interior con el resto del espacio ferial mediante aperturas en todo su perímetro. Superpuesta a
estas geometrías, una suerte de carta nau\ca cons\tuida mediante trusses re\culares incorpora
líneas de luz que guían al visitante a través de la secuencia narra\va de la exposición, marcan
visiones cruzadas y acompañan circulaciones diagonales que enfa\zan la visión relacional del
espacio propuesta por las comisarias.
La propuesta arquitectónica moviliza de manera decisiva la materialidad del espacio exposi\vo,
que se configura a través de muros panelados en madera y parcialmente forrados de moqueta
ferial, mediante superficies que se cortan, pliegan, y retuercen. Lejos de definir una
representación estable y una lectura unitaria, estas superficies construyen espacios que las
comisarias describen como “inasibles, mostrando la vulnerabilidad y la precariedad”. Los colores
rosados de la moquetas y una familia de muebles forrados de aislamiento reciclado esponjoso,
que extrañamente \ene apariencia pétrea, cues\onan las clichés diseminados en la
representación de el Caribe y contribuyen al cues\onamiento sobre este territorio que la
exposición plantea.
Créditos:
Arquitectos: Ignacio G. Galán y OF Architects (Arantza Ozaeta y Alvaro M. Fidalgo)
Colaboradoras de diseño: Irene Domínguez y Natalia Molina
Diseño Gráfico: Pablo Saiz del Rio y Vivian RoPe
Fotografías: Imagen Subliminal (Miguel de Guzmán y Rocio Romero)
Arantza Ozaeta Cortázar (1982) and Álvaro Martín Fidalgo (1980) head TallerDE2 Architects since 2008, a Madrid based office for architecture, urban planning and landscape design. The office makes an ongoing commitment to research and knowledge, both in training and innovative practice. Their work has international scope, been recognized, published and awarded on several occasions.
Arantza Ozaeta Cortázar and Alvaro Martín Fidalgo’s work is mainly developed between Spain, Germany, Italy and UK, where they are teaching, researching and building recent winning competitions. They studied architecture at the Madrid Polytechnic ETSAM and at the TU Delft of The Netherlands. They completed the coursework for the PhD at the Madrid Polytechnic ETSAM in the Department of Advanced Projects in 2010 where they are PhD candidates.
Arantza Ozaeta Cortázar and Alvaro Martín Fidalgo have been recognized with the international award Bauwelt Prize 2013, the prize COAM Luis M. Mansilla 2013 and Finalists at the XII Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennale 2013, for the project ‘Haus der Tagesmütter’.They have been prize winners in several competitions, among which the following can be highlighted: they won the european competition Europan-09 in Selb (Germany), where they are developing an entire urban strategy for a “shrinking city” through the Urban Acupuncture principle. As the result of the implementation of this competition they have completed the project ‘Haus der Tagesmütter’, as well as the project ‘Youth Club and Youth Hostel’, which is currently under construction. They have won the ‘IQ Experimental Collective Housing-Wohnquartiere’ in Germany, which is currently under construction. They were selected at the international competition for ephemeral urban gardens in Bilbao for their winning project ‘Green Cave’, which was realized during the event. They were finalist in the competitions for the wineries ‘Señorío de Villarrica’ and ‘Rothschild & Vega-Sicilia’.
They have been teaching at the Architectural Association School of Architecture-Visiting School Programme (UK), Architectural Polytechnic University of Madrid (Spain), Hochschule Coburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany), Politecnico di Milano (Italy), Ural State Technical University of Ekaterinburg (Russia). In addition, they have actively participated in debates, workshops and lectures. Several of their models have been shown in the Architecture Gallery of the international magazine ‘El Croquis’ and their work has been selected to be exhibited in different places and events in Spain, Germany, Austria and Italy.
His work unfolds through diverse media and platforms and is continuously informed by different kinds of conversations and collaborations. Together with the After Belonging Agency, he is the Chief Curator of the 2016 Oslo Architecture Triennale (Graham Foundation Award 2015). He previously collaborated in the research project Radical Pedagogies, led by Beatriz Colomina at Princeton SOA, and has co-curated its exhibition at the 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennale and at the 2014 Venice Biennale, where it was awarded a Special Mention of the jury.
He is a Term Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture at Barnard+Columbia Colleges, and has previously taught studios and seminars at Columbia GSAPP and PennDesign. He trained at ETSAMadrid and TU Delft, and graduated as a Fulbright Scholar from the MArchII program at Harvard GSD. He has been a Fellow at the Spanish Academy in Rome, and is completing a PhD in Architecture History at Princeton University.