Wayco Ruzafa: Scenographic Intervention

Energy and sustainability, expanding design practices, José Costa ARQ., Middle Density, Project

Alternative Domesticity, Circulation, Colour, Community, Flexibility, Interaction, Natural Lighting, Open Space, Productive design, Project, Transformation, Working Space

Photography: Mariela Apollonio

During the final stretch of construction on the Wayco Ruzafa coworking space, an opportunity arose to add the adjacent property – a 1,590 m2 building that housed the Goya cinemas in the early 20th century and later the Crisol bookstore.

Transformed into a supermarket during its later years of activity, the personality of the early days had been obliterated. The leitmotiv of the design is to return the place to its former grandiosity. The intervention is purposely scenographic. The large central space corresponds to the main theater with its surrounding gallery and several sub-levels, looking out toward the spot where hundreds of films were once screened. Today, it connects with the main space of the initial project.