Waterscapes in Clesa

"The water landscapes in Clesa" is an intervention in an old milk Factory, an industrial building designed in the 60's by Alejandro de la Sota in Madrid.

Nowadays the building is not only abandoned, but also takes part in a network of urban voids. These voids are used as an opportunity in the project from which the intervention starts creating landscapes that provide with a new identity to the neighborhood and factory.

This new identity starts with the study of meteorologic aspects as the principal designer.

There is an investigation of the connection between the architecture and both the meteorologic and energy conditions.

We study all these seasonal changes and how the landscape inside the building and their associate programs may change and determinate different atmospheres.

We study the water and it's morphogenesis, the shape it has when it arrives to the building. The water cycle and water states are studied in order to create landscapes in each industrial unit and their associate programs.

Every industrial unit in the Factory was designed for a specific role in the milk industry process, therefore each of them have different conditions. We create a variety of landscapes in each unit of the Factory using different states of water, such as rain, liquid and steam. The new atmospheric water landscapes define the thermodynamic of each space, as happens with the natural swimming pool, the observatory river, the rain garden or the interior beach, among others. 

This project tries to give a new identity to the abandoned building starting with a meteorology study while paying attention to the water rhythm and the social necessity.