Le Charme Discret de la Bourgeoisie
Architecture’s green fever usually fails to recognize the nature of ecological issues and instead tends to center in photovoltaic cladding, grass facades and self-organized orchards. Not surprisingly, its ideal subject has traditionally been the single family house eager to become autonomous and self-sustainable entity. Meanwhile collective sustainability—the only space left for a feasible project for an eco-city—remains barely explored. In such approach, it is the ecological balance sheet of the entire city, rather that energetic optimization of independent operations, what define the sustainable performance. We propose to incorporate a Sewage Treatment and Sludge Processing Plant in the operation (1) to have a real effect in Reus energetic policies, (2) to make public—by means of a Interpretation Center and associated pedagogical programs —an infrastructural piece key for the city functioning and usually hidden from the citizenry and (3) to built a new identity for the neighborhood actualizing its infrastructural past.
Project: Le Charme Discret de la Bourgeoisie
Status: Competition
Client: Europan 10
Location: Reus, Spain
Program: Urban planing and housing
