Spain’s large cities have long suffered from decay and crime in the central areas, and the impoverishment and depopulation of smaller towns located in the crown. Madrid is such an example. The Lavapiés neighbourhood was a site of rampant unauthorised building practices. Formerly a shelter for sub-Saharan migrants, it is now among the best known to the tourist masses, which, however, mask its delinquency and social deterioration. Instead, the rural hamlet of Valdemaqueda has shrunk to its current number of six hundred inhabitants. Its economy is limited to religious pilgrimages, thus risking the disappearance of the local community. José Ignacio Linazasoro (1947), a Spanish architect living and working in Madrid and winner of the International Brick Award and of the Piranesi Prix de Rome, took on the task of ‘healing’ the Lavapiés neighbourhood and the Valdemaqueda hamlet through the integrated construction of two ruins with strong civic value.

Le grandi città della Spagna soffrono da tempo di degrado e crimi-nalità nelle zone centrali, abbandono e spopolamento dei centri minori posti a corona. Madrid rappresenta un esempio a riguardo. Il quartiere Lavapiés, prima luogo dell’abusivismo dilagante, poi crogiolo di migranti subsahariani, è oggi tra i più noti alla massa turistica che ne maschera però delinquenza e deterioramento sociale. All’opposto, il borgo rurale di Valdemaqueda si è ridotto all’attuale nu-mero di seicento abitanti e ha ristretto l’economia ai soli pellegrinaggi religiosi, rischiando la sparizione della comunità locale. José Ignacio Linazasoro (1947), architetto spagnolo che vive e lavora a Madrid, vincitore dell’International Brick Award e del Piranesi Prix de Rome, si è fatto carico di ‘curare’ il quartiere Lava-piés e il borgo di Valdemaqueda attraverso la costruzione integrata di due rovine dal forte valore civile

Costruire con la rovina. José Ignacio Linazasoro: edifici per le marginalità di Madrid / Constructing with ruin. José Ignacio Linazasoro: buildings for marginalized places in Madrid / Panzini, Nicola. - In: TECHNE. - ISSN 2239-0243. - STAMPA. - 28:(2024), pp. 101-111. [10.36253/techne-15951]

Costruire con la rovina. José Ignacio Linazasoro: edifici per le marginalità di Madrid / Constructing with ruin. José Ignacio Linazasoro: buildings for marginalized places in Madrid

Nicola Panzini
2024-01-01

Abstract

Spain’s large cities have long suffered from decay and crime in the central areas, and the impoverishment and depopulation of smaller towns located in the crown. Madrid is such an example. The Lavapiés neighbourhood was a site of rampant unauthorised building practices. Formerly a shelter for sub-Saharan migrants, it is now among the best known to the tourist masses, which, however, mask its delinquency and social deterioration. Instead, the rural hamlet of Valdemaqueda has shrunk to its current number of six hundred inhabitants. Its economy is limited to religious pilgrimages, thus risking the disappearance of the local community. José Ignacio Linazasoro (1947), a Spanish architect living and working in Madrid and winner of the International Brick Award and of the Piranesi Prix de Rome, took on the task of ‘healing’ the Lavapiés neighbourhood and the Valdemaqueda hamlet through the integrated construction of two ruins with strong civic value.
2024
Costruire con la rovina. José Ignacio Linazasoro: edifici per le marginalità di Madrid / Constructing with ruin. José Ignacio Linazasoro: buildings for marginalized places in Madrid / Panzini, Nicola. - In: TECHNE. - ISSN 2239-0243. - STAMPA. - 28:(2024), pp. 101-111. [10.36253/techne-15951]
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