Prothofactory / Marta Garcia-Orte + Aaron Tregent

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The Protofactory positions a return of industry to the city, fostering a culture of materialism where the flow of material, production of knowledge and the experience of craftsmanship are offered to society. The Protofactory redefines the factory typology. Based on a flow of knowledge and information, The Protofactory harbors a lateral organization of labor and enhanced feedback of research development and innovation processes supported by local and international education. The notion of production becomes reintroduced into the public realm.

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Programmatic coupling generates the arrangement and proportion of heat producing and heat consuming spaces. Agents of air and water activate a thermodynamic structure that optimizes the flow of energy. While the disposition of spaces and boundaries propagate intermediate ‘soft spaces’ that are occupied by program and appropriated as infrastructural systems.

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Through it’s outermost limits The Protofactory is a systematic entity that engages the natural process and change of climate and creates a new spatial relationship with the environment and atmosphere.

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Cite: Nico Saieh. "Prothofactory / Marta Garcia-Orte + Aaron Tregent" 05 Nov 2012. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/288489/prothofactory-marta-garcia-orte-aaron-tregent> ISSN 0719-8884

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