Terceras Naturalezas en la génesis de arquitectura. La Fundación Francisco Giner de los Ríos (Amid.cero9, 2015)

The Amid.cero9 architectural office sets out the Third Natures strategy to design the extension of the Francisco Giner de los Rios Foundation in Madrid in 2015. The project has an interior garden as the hub of school activity. The classrooms and the server spaces are arranged around the open space. In order to generate this scheme, the usual order of the definition of the project is reversed. The garden is not the consequence of fixing the volume of the building, but rather it is drawn in the first place to define the form and constructive guidelines of the rest of the building. The use of the Third Natures creates an environment characterized by two existing categories: firstly, the nature that is born by itself without any alteration, secondly, the one that is modified by the human being for practical means. The new nature’s design tools derive from some cultural, artistic, and technological references. By the multiplicity of languages, Amid works as a techno-social agent: they combine all the ingredients of the project into a new holistic form, from programming codes to crafts and craft techniques. The Francisco Giner de los Rios Foundation creates a new entity by the assemblage of art and technology: a Third Nature that progressively conceals the artificiality of architecture in favor of materializing the experience.