comercial en China les pidió una intervención en uno de sus centros comerciales en honor al Año del Gallo del calendario chino. Aunque el encargo se trataba de una escultura, Marcial Jesús decidió hacer un proyecto de arquitectura donde la gente interactuara con la obra. The Rooster fue el primero de una serie de proyectos temporales que desarrollaron y que les sirvió como escuela para experimentar con materiales, colores y estructuras y para comenzar a armarse un nombre. “Nuestras columna vertebral de nuestros conceptos tiene que ver con el pop, el color, el mundo de la fantasía, que te impacte y eso lleva a la imagen final, una imagen que busca ser parte del imaginario colectivo, como jugar arriba del arcoíris, o debajo del mar…”. R “Cada una de estas obras es un mundo en sí. Nos imaginamos las locuras más grandes pero que hagan sentido. La
the possibilities of spatial transformation through colors, words, photographs, and lines, using only adhesive tapes. "The interest- ing thing is that we built an architectural project without erecting a single wall, just with color. So we began to understand that what our projects did was that they catalyzed social dynamics, and that caught the attention not only of ordinary people but also real estate developers and public sponsors," he explains. After these six projects, the foundation of his office began to take shape: to develop hyper-stimulating architecture that would attract people, and encourage social interactions in public space, through colorful landscapes and intricate topog- raphies that invite users to jump, sit, lie down, take pictures, talk, run, play, and relax. "We believe that we all deserve to play in the city, in different ways depending on our ages. We want to change the concept of the playground, where children play and parents wait in a confined space. We believe in the concept of playscape, where the city itself is transformed into a play space, and real urban toys appear on a metropolitan scale, where the boundaries between the traditional urban space and the play space are blurred and, above all, we all play together. And that is exactly what we like, we "sell happiness"," says Marcial Jesús. In 2016, after a lot of door-knocking, they were presented with their first opportunity to bring their vision to life. A large commercial developer in China asked them for an intervention
W The Nest en Chengdu, China, 2020. W The Nest in Chengdu, China, 2020. T Pixeland in Chengdu, China, 2018. T Pixeland in Chengdu, China, 2018. R Pegasus Trail en Chongqing, China, 2021. R Pegasus Trail in Chongqing, China, 2021.
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