ATHENS, GREECE 2012 (with SITE SPECIFIC arquitectura)
 

In a place like Piraeus, looking at the apparently uniform floor of the port platform, the complexity of the thickness of time in the place cannot fail to be the central theme of the intervention. The project works on the idea that the ground and soil are rich in content, history and signs superimposed over time, lost logics, marks whose meaning become diffuse. We propose to recover traces of the place's construction history, incorporating them as the basis of the proposed new structure, and to make significant part of its working and functional character participate in the future cultural program of the place. The subsistence of a building over time often determines the transformation of its program into new uses. Stangely, the constructions that best respond to specificity of the function for which they were conceived also seem to be those that best adapt to new uses. 

A grain storage silo, aranged vertically in a rigid formal and functional configuration , adapts with unexpected simplicity to its new museum program. The peculiar way of transporting the cerals in the old warehouse, acessing vertically to the top and then being driven by gravity, ends up estabilishing analogies with other contemporary museum spaces, while simbolically translating the idea of the immersion that the museological program itself suggests. The visitor is invited to take a tour of the cereals that goes from the surface to the depth, in the strict sense and in the broad sense, at the same time that he is allowed a parallel reading of the space he travels.