EnvejezANDO: a virtual trip to the Third Age

The exhibition takes visitors on a trip through time, with the years 2015 and 2050 as a reference. The aim is for people to know and experience the current reality of old age, and for them to be aware of the values of architecture as a generator of solutions for real needs. Architecture also wants people to make contact with this age group, which until now has been invisible, and for them to understand that respect for the elderly must form part of the present.

This virtual journey will introduce visitors to the subjects of old age and the physical changes that occur over a lifetime. That is why one of the elements is software in which visitors can see their own image as it would be in old age. They will also discover everything related to leisure for the elderly, what they dedicate their time to and the spaces available for this purpose.

Visitors will discover everything related to the types of rooms for the elderly today in Spain, their problems and realities. But that’s not the only thing they will learn; they’ll also discover proposals for new accessible furniture designs that are adaptable over time.

In addition, they can compare the different subject areas in the two proposed scenarios (2015 and 2050), and extract their own conclusions.

Paz Martín

Paz Martín Rodríguez is a graduate in Architecture from Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Navarra (ETSAN), with a Schindler Architecture Prize for her graduation project. She has a Master’s Degree in Architecture from the Berlage Center and the International Postgraduate Laboratory of Architecture in Amsterdam for the project Fashion and Architecture.

She has been an associate professor in Architectural Projects III and for the Graduation Project at Universidad Europea de Madrid (2010-2015) and at the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands (2004-2007). In addition, she has been an invited professor at Rietveld Academy of Arts in Amsterdam (2000), the Academy of Architecture of Arnhem (Akaemie van Bouwkunst in Arnhem), the Netherlands (2003), the NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano (2007), the University of Innsbruck, Austria (2006-2007), the SoA+DSchool of Architecture and Design at King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand (2012), and SNIF, in Aix-en-Provence, France (2015).

Paz Martín has worked as an architect and project director in the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) (Rem Koolhaas), Rotterdam, the Netherlands (2000-2003), and since 2003 she has directed, jointly with César García Guerra, the FÜNC office founded in Rotterdam and now located in Madrid.

With work completed and being developed in China, Switzerland, Italy, Holland, France and Spain, her career has been recognized both nationally and internationally. It has been exhibited in Holland and Spain, and published in publications in Spain, Germany, Korea, Japan, the Netherlands, Italy and China.

In 2015 she received the Leonardo Grant of the BBVA Foundation for Researchers and Cultural Creators for the project DISEÑO PARA TODOS, Arquitectura y tercera edad (DESIGN FOR ALL. Architecture and the third age), which proposes revaluing, updating and making more visible the architectural and urban space that should be occupied by old age.