Atelier Flores & Prats, Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio
Final Reviews: Second Hand – School of Gastronomy in Mendrisio
18th-19th December 2024
For the Autumn Semester 2024 studio.
The Final Reviews took place on Wednesday 18th and Thursday 19th of December 2024, with a room full of final drawings, process drawings on transparent papers, tape, models, trestles, tables with wheels, spotlights, students and guests. The depth of thoughts was visible and the students’ reflections through the semester were there, at sight, for everyone to get into, to participate in the process of doing and evolving the projects.
We were pleased by the presence of our guests this year, the Greek architects Marianna Rentzou and Konstantinos Pantazis from Point Supreme in Athens, with the participation of our two architects assistants Laura Martínez del Olmo and Michela Romanò, who coordinated together with Eva Parts the group of students and help them to dive into all the possibilities of modification and improvement of the existing built fabric of Mendrisio, to establish a dialogue between public space and the new school of gastronomy. We were enjoying all the presentations exposed in these two sessions with such an intensity, engagement and precision, put in all the amount of documents covering the entire walls of the room, from floor to ceiling.
Professor: Eva Prats
Assistants: Michela Romanò, Laura Martínez del Olmo
Guests: Marianna Rentzou & Kanstantinos Pantazis, Ricardo Flores
Photos by Judith Casas