The new occupation of industrial ruins places us before gigantic structures, of very generous dimensions, where it seems anything can fit, anything can be, and in a total silence. Large volumes of air and amounts of natural light come in through skylights and huge windows, filling it all, and they leave us thinking about the responsibility of using that place without losing the material qualities and of scale we have before us. For a moment we stay still, quietly observing, thinking about how to incorporate all that into the future of the place. The challenge of reusing industrial buildings lies precisely there, in how not to make what we inherit disappear, in ensuring the new program uses that heritage, the high physical quality of the elements that form it, but also the large empty spaces inside, enclosed, a treasure that does not exist in other parts of the city...[+]