Lavadoiro de Artes

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Carlos Seoane González

Space for social relations. Women's space

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Front view - Héctor Santos-Díez

El lavadero del río Artes is a washing place that was built in the 1940s. The washing places have had a double function in rural Galicia: an immediate function as a place of access to running water where washing could be carried out when there was no public water supply, and a second function as a space for relationships between the women of the area. The laundry room has traditionally been an exclusive space for women. A sphere where men could not enter and where female neighbours interacted outside the space of the home marked by the family.

The environment

Side View 2 - Héctor Santos-Díez
Aerial Photo - Carlos Seoane

Our proposal aims to recover, with the creation of a "V" shaped grandstand, this character of a space for relationships with an action that in some way encourages interaction between the people who visit it. The proposal seeks to recover the washhouse as a space where the circulating water of the river is the protagonist, giving the place a social dimension but also one of reflection, where the presence of a calm stream of water 30 m long in the shade of the trees allows for a different state of perception.

Materials

Arts Washing Plan - Carlos Seoane
Axonometry Arts washer - Carlos Seoane

The basic material is wild granite from Barbanza from a quarry located just 15 km from the site, which has allowed us to create an economical proposal, but at the same time with that capacity that stone has to transmit a certain idea of eternity and, perhaps because of this, of calmness that we would like to return to a social relationship.

Side View - Héctor Santos-Díez

General information

Lavadoiro de Artes

YEAR

2020

Status

Built

Option to visit

Free visit

Address

Rd. de Ribeira a Corrubedo, s/n

15960 Ribeira - A Coruña

Latitude: 42.579330754

Longitude: -9.020357261

Classification

Building materials

Granite

Construction system

Traditional, whitewashed masonry and brick walls and ceramic roofs

Built area

501 - 5000 m²

Awards

XV BEAU

Involved architects

Carlos Seoane González

Involved architectural firms

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