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Salome Wackernagel

1 May 2023 – 31 January 2024

Salomé Wackernagel is an architect graduated from the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). Her training in design and architecture began in 2008 in Paris (ESAA Duperré), after continuing in Versailles (ENSAV) and Berlin (TU / UdK). She then collaborated with several architecture studios between 2012 and 2016, before developing her own home and office renovation and renovation projects in France, Switzerland, Germany and Spain. Parallel to her private commissions, she began to develop participatory processes in public spaces in Germany and Spain. The Rethink the Periphery project, a collaborative urban planning process developed between 2017 and 2021, in collaboration with Orekari Estudio and with the support of the Huarte Contemporary Art Center, as well as the Innova Cultural program (la Caixa Foundation and Caja Navarra Foundation), proposes for example the cultural activation of neglected places, in creation and/or mutation on the outskirts of Pamplona. Since 2021, Salomé Wackernagel has been dedicated to a research process titled Rurápolis, as a member of the Research Laboratory of the Versailles School of Architecture (LéaV), in France, and with a scholarship from the University of Paris-Cergy (CY). Salomé lives and works in Gijón.

Project in residence

Rurapolis

In order to explore and project a territorial development model adapted to present and future social and climatic contingencies, the Rurapolis project outlines a possible reversal of the phenomenon of urban sprawl: rethinking the city from the countryside. This project hypothesis is based on the strong presence of rural ruins in the study areas, proposing a territorial development method for the very broad and problematic concept of “Empty Spain”. The first study area, which has been worked on during the last two years, is located between the communities of Navarra and Aragon, next to the Pyrenean mountain range. The second study area follows the northern tangent of the peninsula to reach a triangle formed by Asturias, León and Galicia, where the industrial past, the waves of emigration as well as the vernacular use of sustainable materials such as earth, offer an interesting panorama when proposing a post-urban territorial development model centered on an archipelago of depopulated nuclei in these regions.


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