Set table

What happens when ruin ceases to be the past and becomes the future? When matter is not inert but potential. This project dismantles, recomposes, and subverts what we call waste. Frómista is not a blank canvas but a dense territory, layered between abandonment and opportunity. Against the inertia of erasure, we propose transformation: industrial debris as a toolbox, architecture as a process, the table as a manifesto. A network of shifting structures that redefines how we gather, how we build, how we endure.

This project revolves around a table—one that serves a six-course menu, exploring circularity, reuse, and estrangement to foster connections among diners. The intervention takes place in a landscape of abandoned proto-industrial buildings, remnants of failed developments. It begins with a cataloging of preexisting structures and an analysis of natural recolonization on built surfaces. From these elements, a dismantling and reuse strategy is developed, minimizing waste and environmental impact. The fragmentation of industrial architectures generates a catalog of construction details where reclaimed and new materials coexist. Beyond documenting recovered materials, the project explores unconventional joints, transforming industrialized forms and creating unexpected connections with their surroundings. These prototypes allow familiar objects to become something new, turning architecture into a driver of spatial and material experimentation. Uncertainty becomes an opportunity for continuous social and functional reconfiguration. Though independent, the units form an interconnected system structured around a 6x192m table-platform overlaying preexisting structures, establishing a North-South axis. This element organizes six programmatic scenes addressing the needs of locals, workers, pilgrims, and visitors. The central scene—food—emerges as the core of social and temporal convergence. Between 1 and 4 PM, sharing the table becomes the project's axis. More than an architectural element, the platform is an invitation to inhabit differently, generate new relationships, and redefine what it means to be here.