Ø46 SPACE, Bilbao, Spain | 2022, Carlos Garmendia, Spain

Architects: Carlos Garmendia, Álvaro Cordero
Client: Borja Dopico
Photographer: Pedro Pegenaute

Intervening in a consolidated and delimited space is always partly an ephemeral performance that reminds us of the task of creating a set inside a theater.
If we understand this type of action as something transitory inside a volume that will last much longer than that action itself, it makes sense to propose an intervention of a theatrical nature as a temporary reversible exercise in the face of the durability of the architecture on which it is acted.

At this point, breaking the predominant geometry in the existing architecture helps us to show our intrusion as an actor who speaks in other different terms, who is not governed, at least in a significant percentage, by the same laws the own conception of the building.
That is why this project is born from a 45º turn on the master lines of the building and, from this, an ambiguous space is configured, largely undefined in terms of functionality, and that allows infinite uses and appropriations.