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Architects: Selgascano
- Area: 80729 ft²
- Year: 2017
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Manufacturers: Lastra y Zorrilla, AIR-board, EGE, Fiberline, Nowofol, Plexiglas, Walker
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Lead Architects: Jose Selgas, Lucia Cano
Text description provided by the architects. The centre is on the boundary between the town and the country, in outskirts of Plasencia, the edge between what has been touched by a less artificial humanity and what has been touched by millennia of climate. What has been touched by humanity has covered up those millennia with the sweep of a trowel in a few years. This is strange, even economically, because to do so, 15m high retainer walls had to be built. Thus, from the outset, from the competition design, we saw quite clearly that the work consisted of choosing between one of the boundary´s two sides: belonging to the city, to what has been touched by our generation, or belonging to slowness. Under these conditions it was impossible to belong to both.
