Mansiyon, Bodegas Vinival Competition 2025

Emrecan Bostan ve İdil Mersin'in Bodegas Vinival Competition için tasarladığı proje, mansiyon ödülü aldı.

The Antiguas Bodegas Vinival, built in 1969 on La Patacona coast in Alboraya, is an industrial complex originally used for wine production. The Bodegas remains an important part of the area’s collective memory and stands out as a heritage with adaptable potential. The project reclaims this abandoned structure as a dynamic space for artistic production and collective expression. The existing silos and tanks are rearranged as modular capsules forming a flexible infrastructure for creation. Artists can temporarily use these capsules as studios, stages, or performance areas. Open spaces connect these units, encouraging encounters between creators and visitors and making creation a visible, shared process. The surrounding site, cleared of previous structures, offers opportunities for outdoor community and cultural activities.

Las Fallas is a festival of transformation, creativity, and collective participation, where temporary works and acts of social renewal come together. Inspired by this spirit, the project emphasizes flexibility and interaction. The building\’s industrial structure and elements inherited from its former function are preserved to maintain its character, while new functions such as workshops, production studios, common areas, and exhibition spaces encourage creativity and collaboration.

Upon entering the site, visitors are greeted by a small info point, surrounded by greenery and opening onto a straight path that invites exploration. As you approach the silo, the intersection of old and new becomes apparent. The original silo facade was replaced with a new facade connected to the existing structure by a mesh that mimics the original face and serves as a frame for displaying objects. This made the creative process visible and interactive.

Across from the silo, the “Neo/Silo” area stretches out as a fun and colorful space, inspired by Las Fallas, where flexible and interesting areas are created using round forms of various sizes and colors within a green landscape.

At the end of the entrance path, the “Capsule Hub” repurposes elements from the existing silo for various functions. Accessible from the upper floor, the hub continues the reimagining of the facade, acting as a bridge that connects spaces and creates a cohesive architectural language.

Opposite the hub, the “Mural Canvas” serves as a three-dimensional canvas. Visitors can use the wall and the grid-patterned floor for creative engagement, with each part of the grid coming together to symbolically reflect the spirit of Las Fallas.

The entire site embraces the principles of change, renewal, and collective production, proposing a living architecture that evolves through time, use, and participation. Surfaces and boundaries remain open to construction, erasure, and reconstruction, tu ing creation into a continuous act of rebirth and celebrating impermanence, shared energy, and playful engagement with space.