TAZ Office. This device is structured as a space where TAZ Archive is physically hosted, being a repository that lets you check the information that exists online through an analog medium. Yet the TAZ office intends to go beyond passing from one format to another. The office is intended as a temporary autonomous space wherever it is located. For this, it raises an infrastructure related to the practices and contents of the references included in the archive. This device enables the assemblies or citizen parliaments, enables workspaces to develop collaborative construction workshops, and it creates an open cultural infrastructure and establishes mechanisms to generate community gardens. Ultimately, it allows creating a temporary experience which allows, on the one hand, being a tool of direct communication at street level, and secondly, being a catalyst that enables connections with local communities for their involvement and inclusion in the Archive TAZ.
Context. The project is developed in the context of the 2015 call for residencies promoted by the cultural center Casino Luxembourg, for interventions in public space. TXP’s proposal is the development of the TAZ office for its installation in the city of Luxembourg. This intervention is located in a square that is at the intersection of Boulevard de la Pétrusse and Passerelle / Viaduc. This space will be open for a period of three months, from June 20 to September 6, 2015, raising the recovery and activation of this square.
Description. The TAZ Archive is made up of a scaffolding structure, a circular 7 meter high tower with two upper floors. Its inner diameter is 6 meter long, and the e wooden floors are surrounded by a perimeter staircase which allows access to each of the plants. The perimeter is covered with “new jersey barriers”, plastic barriers of road signs, that are placed vertically. These generate permeable planes that operate as a lattice, qualifying the space and giving it their singular character. This structure, of great constructive simplicity, generates several public spaces in height by multiplying the plaza area and articulating the different programs that are raised around the Archive. On the ground floor is the assembly area, a space equipped with mobile grandstands that allows multiple combinations. This is a multifunctional space that enables multiple activities: Assemblies, screenings, concerts, movie theater, etc. On the first floor is located the archive space, a space for reading and querying the database file of TAZ projects. In this first phase there have been collected close to 50 projects, both in Europe and Latin America. On the second floor is the community garden, a co-managed space for citizens which connects with local initiatives of the city.
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