Actar
Arquitectura (SP)
Manuel Gausa (1959), Oleguer Gelpi (1964), Ignasi Pérez Arnal (1965) Florence Raveau (1965), Marc Aureli Santos (1960)
Manuel Gausa (1959), Oleguer Gelpi (1964), Ignasi Pérez Arnal (1965) Florence Raveau (1965), Marc Aureli Santos (1960)
Actar
Arquitectura, which was founded in Barcelona in 1994, interweaves its areas
of activity: publishing and exhibitions, urban and archietctural production,
critical and forward-looking research. This swathe of interconnected activities,
which are deliberately hybrid and transversal, is intended to closely encompass
contemporary complexity, on many different levels of analysis and intervention:
the scale of territory with the project for the "corridor" between
Graz and Maribor (2001), which gives rise to an interplay of "landlinks"
between the vibrating nodes of a territorial "web", concentrating
and redistributing a sort of programmatic "energy", and adjoining
pockets, which take on not a form but a function (Teleworking Areas, Auto
Tech Centre, Agro Landscapes,...); the scale of a set of housing units,
then, with the Castellon project (2001), which imbues the landscape with
"topographies of substitution"; and the scale of the edifice,
last of all, with the Tornado Tower (2001), which expresses the idea of
a nature that is folded, expanded and shrunk under the effect of informational
and infrastructural flows, those new telluric currents with run beneath
the landscape.