E1000

3 / 12

16ST

Buildings hide messages waiting to be deciphered in their architecture. The meanings of these messages are left to the free interpretation of whoever seeks to decipher those codes.

After delving into the memories that fill this place and taking multiple walks with Google Street View, with the aim of putting into context the space surrounding the building, I discovered the balustrade on the upper floor and decided to remove it, as the central element of this intervention.

Then, I started to decode the geometry of the balustrade, contemplating various options according to possible characters and, of course, without losing sight of the history behind the building on 16th Street.

And it was precisely those digits and letters 16 ST that fitted perfectly. The name of the street makes explicit reference to one of the historical events that struck me most: a series of local protests to return it to its original name, something they achieved a year later.

Once the final design was completed, looking at it from afar, its shape resembled a house with a chimney. I consider this coincidence to be the best tribute to the building with the use of its own architecture.

About E1000

Taking experience and memories as a starting point, E1000 proposes a series of new meanings and signifiers in the routine through the idea of discovery. He questions the approach and routine of our environment through a series of geometric compositions in which strangeness prevails in the face of accumulated tension in the city. Here, gesture, play and experiment function as an alternative to the dominant trend.

Pictorial minimalisms establish a catalog of shapes, colors, and lines that formulate new cartography through the idea of a fragment. A mapping format proposes the memory of abandonment based on the idea of allegory, intertwining a dynamic of urban exploration-intervention.

Public space is a space for play, play as intervention, repetition and its questioning as an experience — where the body, painting, gesture, reinterpretation, and urban experience are the foundations used to rewrite the city from its margins, through the integration of his work in the metropolis, building new situations of enunciation.