Scaffold

67: Flores & Prats

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Aug 11, 2022
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INSIGHT

Drawing As Inheritance

  • Flores & Prats treat careful drawing as a way to understand and inherit buildings before intervening.
  • Detailed inventories let them match new work to existing scale and proportion so interventions feel continuous.
ANECDOTE

A Book That Feels Like Dreaming

  • Matthew describes reading the Sala Beckett book as a dreamlike passage through multiple pasts and presents of the building.
  • The project's rich representational work made him feel the building morph across time.
INSIGHT

Materials Carry Social Time

  • Jujol's reuse ethic taught them to see reused materials as carriers of history and social value.
  • Reused elements bring memory into the present and must be articulated so they form a coherent new whole.
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