This readjustment is set out as an evolutive process in two phases:
Phase #1. Upgrade Kits and Supergraphics.
Upgrade Kits are used as a way to optimize the arrangement of the new uses by minimizing the intervention on the existing building and by reducing it to a structural and outside walls consolidation as well as an adjustment of certain architectonical elements to current regulations.
Supergraphics are used as a way to introduce the identity of Grupo Emaús into the building, green colour is a corporate reference associated to sustainability and recycling.
On the façade, Supergraphics appear as a huge stamp displaying the typical recycle-reuse sign, a mark saying: “I’m a recycled building”. In the interior, Supergraphics are a way to identify commercial areas. Sales areas can be recognised as spaces in which colours are desaturated up to two metres high starting from the floor level, making recycled objects for sale become protagonists. From two to four metres high up to the ceiling, green colour covers everything as a way to stand out the existing preserved elements of the old steel industry such as the reinforced concrete grid and old drain pipes formerly used for cutting machines...