Jose Miguel Cornejo

his project is an adaptive re-use intervention on the St. Peter´s Seminary building in Cardross, Scotland. This building was built as an educational facility for priests, conceived in 1954 by Gillespie, Kidd and Coia. It was finished in 1967, 4 years after the Second Vatican Council, an event that changed the instruction of how priests should be taught, from isolated monasteries to becoming integrated into the communities they would preach at. This event rendered the building obsolete at the time of its opening, causing it to only function for 20 years, it then became abandoned and it has become an exploration ground for graffiti artists, arsonists, and other adventurers that have had an intense impact on the building´s current atmosphere. I perceived this as an opportunity to embrace this radical space for change as I think it is something we desperately need. This project is grounded in our current climate crisis condition which I think can only be solved with radical change and action through art, education, sustainable agricultural and material production. This masterplan and architectural intervention aim to generate the tools that would enable this change, all within an intense experiential building.

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