Getting rid of all the clichés of the tourist offices, PKMN Architectures presents this project in which one single element is used to configured the street front of the office as well as a space for exchange between people.
Description of the project by PKMN Architectures
Alcázar de San Juan Tourist Office is just a storefront.
Without posters, without any kind of duplicate images of city monuments, without fake traditional products, without clay pots, without mini- windmills, without ploughs, without Quijote's busts. Only a storefront and that sign reminding T-U-R-I-S-M-O A-L-C-Á-Z-A-R. The extrusion of each one of its letters turns the sign into a three-dimensional lure inside and outside the Tourist Office. Marking out the area of the workspaces inside, and becoming a dynamic sign outside.
A Tourist Office is only an interchange between people. Little wooden steps make this kind of chats, stories, anecdotes or suggestions possible. A Tourist Office is a place for exchange, the entrance into a context, the storefront of the whole territory...
Text.- PKMN Architectures.
CREDITS. DATA SHEET.-
Architects.- PKMN architectures.
Collaborators.- Carol Linares, Alessia Mansutti, Elena Cantoni, Alicia Coronel.
Client.- Alcázar de San Juan Town Hall.
Builder company.- Construcciones Gómez SL.
Carpentry.- Rivas Sánchez Carpinteros.
Metalwork.- Sdemetal.
Date.- From January to June 2015.
Location.- Alcázar de San Juan, Spain.
