Débora Mesa Molina: Stunning buildings made from raw, imperfect materials
ديبورا ميسا مولينا.: بنايات مذهلة بُنيت من العدم
Débora Mesa Molina makes space for experimentation in a highly regulated profession. Full bio
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بها العديد من القواعد،
with many rules,
we're constantly gravitating
and push boundaries and innovate,
وتتخطى الحدود وتبتكر،
and we overlook all the time.
ونغفله طوال الوقت.
along with my team,
in strict historic contexts,
of Authors and Editors,
للمؤلفين والمحررين،
references to learn from,
our education as architects,
that industry made available
التي أتاحتها الصناعة
to use in our buildings
to the nearby quarries
that transforms a mountain
that you buy from a supplier.
scale of the material
blocks piling up everywhere.
متراكمة في كل مكان.
of an extraction sequence:
material of great quality,
ذات الجودة العالية،
that this was a good idea;
بأنها فكرة ناجحة،
with a design process
لهذه الصخور.
equipped with 3-D scanners
بماسحات ضوئية ثلاثية الأبعاد
for a hands-on experience.
willing to share the risk with us.
من يريد أن يخاطر معنا بهذا المشروع.
to help us build a few prototypes
ليساعدوننا ببناء نماذج أولية
by eight-meter-high structure
وبارتفاع ثمانية أمتار
material of the quarry,
in the city center
في وسط المدينة،
environment of the quarry,
the whole building in time
means and methods.
وتقنياتنا غير تقليدية.
of the industrial landscape
من الأراضي الصناعية
and the neighbors.
quite a few headaches,
an exception in our work,
يعتبر نموذجاً فريداً في عملنا،
a modus operandi
becomes this opportunity
we believe has to be urgently reimagined.
أنه يجب إعادة تخيلها بشكل عاجل.
built and inhabited.
we are using the small scale
the architectures
applications of pretty mundane materials
من مواد عادية
in the top row,
these precast concrete beams.
هذه الحزم الخرسانية الجاهزة.
water channels --
والطرقات وأنفاق المياه...
to a precast concrete factory.
especially homey or beautiful,
to build our first house.
في بناء أول منزل لنا.
we could be our own clients.
how we can take these huge catalogue beams
هذه الحزم الجاهزة الضخمة
around a courtyard space ...
and their material quality,
that carry the loads to the ground,
الذي يحمل الأوزان على الأرض.
interior from exterior;
الجزء الخارجي عن الداخلي،
التي تؤطر المشهد الخارجي،
standard elements in nonstandard ways.
العناصر القياسية بطرق غير قياسية.
that the results are intriguing.
can be much more than stacking boxes
بكثير من صناديق ترص
can be airy and transparent.
على التهوية ويمكن الرؤية من خلالها.
and building this house,
and our friends
get translated into other projects
تترجم إلى مشاريع أخرى،
at very standard products:
على منتجات قياسية للغاية مجدداً:
that can be easily cut and screwed,
التي يمكن قطعها وثلمها بسهولة،
hidden in partition walls
مخبأة في الجدران
a very lightweight construction system
with our hands in our shop,
We're not professional builders
ولسنا عمال بناء محترفين،
can move it with his hands
يمكنه تحريكه بيديه
if you were moving abroad ...
عندما تسافر خارج البلاد...
beams to Brookline.
of a very nice neighborhood:
and the only thing we could afford.
هو كل ما استطعنا تحمل كلفته.
to transform it into a swan,
our just-delivered kit of parts,
التي تسلمناها تواً فوقه،
and the guinea pigs.
that uses some of the cheapest
that you can find in the market
four-by-eight modulation
على أشكال رباعية وثمانية
organization of the spaces
an economically built home
actively working with developers,
for many more homes
is an infinite source of inspiration
مصدر إلهام لا محدود،
to see beneath the surface of things.
to the other side of the moon:
we joined Cathy and Peter Halstead
منذ عدة أعوام،
on a 10,000-acre working ranch.
تبلغ مساحتها حوالي 10,000 فدان.
about what an art center is
had no fit here.
غير ملائم هنا.
into a constellation of fragments,
across the vast territory
into the wilderness of this amazing place.
في برية هذا المكان الرائع.
we are thinking through making,
and as material,
of sedimentation, erosion,
كالترسيب والتآكل،
that are born from the land,
of the landscape,
that crosses Murphy Canyon.
the space of the mountains
and the local craft.
والحرفية المحلية.
just those aspects that are critical,
embedded in the form.
is welcome and is provoked.
is still a moment of design
come together to perform a final dance.
المختلفة لتؤدي الرقصة الأخيرة.
like you would unwrap a birthday gift.
كما تفضون غلاف الهدية.
of the earth to build a shelter,
at our disposal in radical ways,
بطرق ثورية،
architectures that find the beauty latent
تعثر على الجمال الكامن
things that surround us,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Débora Mesa Molina - ArchitectDébora Mesa Molina makes space for experimentation in a highly regulated profession.
Why you should listen
Débora Mesa Molina designs and builds architectures that use overlooked materials and discover the beauty of the mundane. She is the principal architect of Ensamble Studio, a cross-functional team based in Madrid and Boston that she leads with her partner Antón García-Abril. Balancing imagination with reality, art and science, their work innovates typologies, technologies and methodologies to address issues as diverse as the construction of the landscape to the prefabrication of the house. From their early works -- such as SGAE Headquarters, Hemeroscopium House or The Truffle in Spain -- to their most recent works -- including the Cyclopean House and Structures of Landscape in the US -- every project navigates the uncertain aim of advancing their field. Through their startup WoHo, they are invested in increasing the quality of architecture while making it more affordable by integrating offsite technologies.
Mesa Molina is committed to sharing ideas and cultivating synergies between professional and academic worlds through teaching, lecturing and researching. Since 2018, she has served as Ventulett Chair in Architectural Design at Georgia Tech, and previously served as research scientist at MIT where she cofounded the POPlab in 2012. Above all, she is a doer, committed to making poetic ideas happen.
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