Lanzarote music factory

Description

INTRODUCTION

Lanzarote 
Long and volcanic, paradisiac Spanish island near the the african coasts crystalline waters and volcanic earth, blach and reddish. This is the site of intervention for the next reTHINKING competition. With the colaboration and sponsorship of El Cabildo de Lanzarote.

CONTRAST

Lanzarote is a unique space, it is so that sometimes you can feel that you are in another planet thanks to his Martian landscapes. This wonderfuld island which is recognise by the UNESCO as Biosphere reserve since 1993 because its unusual environment.

Walking around the island can certainly be an itinerary for the constant change of scenery that surrounds us. We can lose ourselves through volcanoes, grottos or virgin beaches in a single day and all united with a peace and calm that can be felt in the air. A paradise for the soul and a necessary pause in our walk.

CULTURE-SUN-LANDSCAPE = CALM AND PEACE

As a brief review of what awaits us we can refer to the National Park of Timanfaya. A sample of recent and historic volcanism. The almost total absence of vegetation, the variety of colors like ochres, blacks, oranges and reds, the roughness of forms is certainly impressive.

We can also refer to the Protected Landscape of La Geria, a wine-growing area with excavations and small co nical stone walls that protect the vine from the wind. A different landscape, special, like its wine “Denominación de Origen”.

In terms of spectacular beaches we could name on the one hand the beach of Papagayo and La Francesa beach. The first to the south of the island, hidden in endless coves of white sands and crystalline waters with greenish tones. The second is on the island of La Graciosa, north of Lanzarote, where civilization has not yet trod with its asphalt and tar yarn and thanks to its white sand we find ourselves outside of total civilization.

El charco de los Clicos. A crater at sea level that has generated a small open amphitheater towards the sea in which a yellowish green lagoon contrasts with the black sand that surrounds it. Shocking.

La Cueva de los Verdes, the immense legacy of César Manrique, Punta Mujeres, Arrecife. What else could you want? What can architecture do within all this wonder? The answer is easy: BOOST. Boosting biodiversity, culture, tourism, potential sociability, reactivation, enhancing sustainability and so on.

ARCHITECTURE CAN DO THIS, HERE, TODAY IS POSSIBLE.
Objectives

The project of the Music Factory of Lanzarote was born as a public initiative that seeks to solve the lack of musical spaces and interpretation of the island bearing in mind the analysis extracted from the area.

A priority objective is the connection with the city and the impulse of the urban renewal in Arrecife. A project that will act as an engine of future activities that seek intervention in urban voids and old buildings adapting them to new uses.

Another of the premises that are pursued is the conservation of the hydraulic infrastructure of the island, not only understood as a building rehabilitation but as a renovation, that allows to revive to the buildings that have remained in the forgetfulness adapting them to the new needs.

And finally an important factor to take into account, the recognition of Lanzarote as a Biosphere Reserve implies that any initiative is based on respect for the environment, protection of the environment and natural resources and sustainable development.
 

ONE PROJECT WILL BE BUILD

This contest proposes that the participant investigate the forms of intervention and reactivation within a space of social, commercial, cultural and landscape revival. Studying limits, scales, views, accesses, materialities, are keys to follow.