We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer Zooco Estudio about their original and creative Arts Center design work. Zooco Estudio is an award-winning architectural designer, that makes our world a better place with their original arts center works.
Zooco Estudio ("ZE") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work Verin ArtsCenter Arts Center. Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
ZE : The inspiration of the buiding is all about the urbanism and the rural enviorment of Verin. In fact, the way of the buildings are set in the limit of the plots and the common spaces they let in the interiors, are the main influence of the design of the Centre.
ZE : We want to provide the intimacy of a home and the heterogeneity of a town, at the same time, in the same building. Each use of the program required was materialized as a unit, as a volume that is aligned to the edge of the patchs creating a space of coexistence and relationship, without hierarchies, supporting the idea of small community.
ZE : To be recognised in the design world. To gain prestige, reknowned worldwide, which means to keep designing new projects.
ZE : About three months.
ZE : The programm was required by The City Hall of Verin. The way it is distributed and designed was taken of the analysis of the urbanism of the area.
ZE : This design has only be created to be the building of The Arts Centre of Verin.
ZE : This scheme make separation and conexion of the units compatible, generating numerous nucleous that interact and change depending on the use of its ocupants. The displacement and delicate turn of volumes generates a random appearance scheme but full of relationships and variants. It is a place defined by its own flexibility, unpredictable. Something involuntary that occurs as a result of the relationships of their own uses.
ZE : System: Voronoi Diagram Architects: Sou Fujimoto.
ZE : Everybody who visitis a Cultural Centre. We are atlking about families, and people who want to asist to an event.
ZE : This is a project that takes care about the place where is set.
ZE : Autocad, 3d rhino, revit
ZE : ¿Great home or small town? Arts center of Verin provides the intimacy of a home and the heterogeneity of a town.
ZE : With structure engineers and with the constructors of the building.
ZE : Its sustainable manner, due to the materials in the urban land (Green spaces and reciclable pavement) and the installations, that allows energy and water savings.
ZE : Voronoi diagram.
ZE : the budget was reduced so the construction had to be simply and low-cost.
ZE : Because it is a well-done project in terms on how a contemporany work can be integrated in a rural enviorment without attack the landscape.
ZE : The importance of the situation and the consideration of the budget to built. the centre has a outstanding character, withot dismissing the environment it is set and taking care about the scale (size and height) with the surrondings.
