The art of doing NOTHING.
It is more difficult to be silent than to speak. It's harder to empty than to fill. It is more difficult not to be than to be. In architecture we have a desire to do and when we are entrusted with a project, we instinctively want to do something. Running to show how valuable we are and how much we know. What to do when it is better to do nothing? When we got the project for the intervention of an emblematic restaurant in Barcelona, the conflict was served. By chance we got “Il Giardinetto” and as a reference a house by “Lacatón & Vasal”. The doing, nothing. The project idea was to implement a feature of L&V's “Latapie House” in “Il Giardinetto”. A house for the chefs above the restaurant seemed great to us. What did we do with the restaurant? Deconstruct and do or do nothing? Let's go to Bordeaux in 1996 where L&V was commissioned to remodel a square (plaza), do you know what the architects did? After talking with the neighbors and analyzing how the square wor...