Off Grid

In Off Grid we will discuss how to build and inhabit rural and natural environments of the territory. We will talk about the new constructive and typological models that open the dialogue to new industrialized construction systems, sustainability, biodiversity or inclusion…For this, we will have the presence of architects who have studied this phenomenon with a critical view:

Jon Garbizu comes to present “RHIZOMA”, an initiative he has carried out together with Victoria Collar and Gonzalo Peña.

Ibon Telleria, who will later discuss the issues addressed in this work.

Moderator: María Esnaola

About RHIZOMA

RHIZOMA takes the baserri typology as a starting point to imagine new models of productive housing in the natural environments of Euskadi. Beyond any romantic view, it proposes a demystified vision of the baserrique that allows us to extract from it its fundamental constructive and typological elements. These elements can offer us valuable keys to rethink how we should build and live in the present and the future of the Basque territory.

From the proposal developed for Europan 16 in Beizama, RHIZOMA has been consolidating a theoretical and practical body that has been enriched with the homonymous sessions organized in Chillida Leku during the biennial Mugak 2023, as well as through the continued work with the Department of Housing of the Basque Government. In this line, we understand this round table as a new step in the rhizomatic path initiated some years ago; an open space to continue thinking collectively about how we want to live and build in Euskadi.

About Jon Garbizu will participate in the discussion panel as a representative of the tandem formed by the architectural studios KRI and Garbizu Collar. Born in San Sebastian and trained at the ETSAB in Barcelona, Jon combines professional practice with teaching at the ETH Zürich, where for several years he has been teaching projects as part of the Chair of Circularity directed by Roger Boltshauser.

About Garbizu Collar (Jon Garbizu, Victoria Collar) y and (Gonzalo Peña) are two architecture studios that have been collaborating since 2022 in the development of RHIZOMA, a research project that explores new models of productive housing in the rural context of the Basque Country. Their joint work is situated at the intersection between architectural practice, territorial research and critical reflection on contemporary habitation. From complementary approaches -that integrate teaching, constructive experimentation and ecological thinking-, both studios propose strategies to rethink housing from the local, the collective and the circular

About Ibon Telleria, He is an architect by the School of Architecture of Donostia-San Sebastian of the UPV-EHU since 2001. Professor at the School since 2002, he has taught classes in Structures, and currently in Projects and subjects related to intervention in Heritage. He has been in charge of the Basque farmhouse workshop within the University Master in Rehabilitation, Restoration and Integral Management of the Built Heritage and Existing Constructions of the EHU.

He has carried out different research works related to heritage and domestic architecture in rural areas. He has written several articles on the Heritage of rural architecture and the ways of intervention in it. His doctoral thesis deals with the origin and historical development of a model of medieval farmhouse in southern Gipuzkoa. As an architect, he has carried out different intervention works related to his line of research.