MADAME PARKING
Architect "emotional" wins Spain
E 'among the ten most important designers in the world
MADRID
His latest masterpiece is the central plaza of parking Cánovas Valencia, a marvel of color 4 underground floors, each with different colors (blue, green, yellow and red), to accommodate 340 cars, the first ecological park in the world with a lot of charging electric vehicles. No coincidence that one of the genes world architecture, Norman Foster, called the originator, the Turin Teresa Sapey, Madame Parking. But the architect Italian most famous and the most trendy of Spain, where she emigrated 19 years ago, is present everywhere, from the Christmas lights in Madrid to the design of the popular drugstore Vips. Always with his creative philosophy: the emotional architecture. "If I had not grown up in Turin, if I had not loved the great Juvarra, who designed the Royal Palace, surely I would not get so high," he told La Stampa Sapey, 46, Cuneo by birth but lived in Turin until when she moved to Madrid to open its highly successful studio. He explains: "I call my emotional architecture projects, which are not only functional and aesthetic, because all your senses wake up, tell stories that make you dream. My creations are as theaters where customers, visitors, and then they become the protagonists involved with emotion. " Sapey, marcatissimo with a Piedmontese accent, his grandfather a senator and father, an engineer, and mother of two separated twins, James and Francesca, before he studied at the Liceo Classico Gioberti, then graduated from the Polytechnic of Turin with Professor Roger (his teachers There was the architect Gabetti). Then she specialized at the Parsons School of Design in New York and the Ecole National Superieure d'Architecture Paris La Villette. The taste for the chromaticity, its unique feature, he learned the painter Eugene Comencini.
The architect, volcanic and great communicator, crowned in 2007 by the prestigious British magazine Wallpaper as one of the world's top 10 designers, plans everywhere from Dubai to St. Moritz. In Spain, especially in the capital, is famous for. Among his works are the colorful parking lot of Plaza de Vázquez de Mella, and the Hotel Puerta de America, a collective work of architects like Foster, Hadid, and Nouvel. But the brand Custo Barcelona stores, as well as Madrid, Paris and Milan. A flurry of activity but does not forget this elegant and eccentric lady works well. Madame Parking, in fact, is part of Curarte charitable foundation, which helps sick children in hospitals in Spain and is working on a project for the new department of psychiatry at the hospital Niño Jesús Madrid, trying to make it more comfortable, convenient and pleasant for the children. A commitment that has earned her last May one of the twelve annual awards that, in the UN headquarters in New York, gives the NGO Woman Together with women who combine professional success and social commitment.
"I deeply love Torino, I was always encouraged and continue to do so in the future - says the architect -. Here is a concrete example: I exported the Piedmont Spain yellow to decorate a home for important people in Madrid. Since then I have copied all. " Certainly his colorful fantasy is always a sign. When he came to enter the competition at Hotel Puerta de Europa, a treat they wanted to participate in all the best names in world architecture, said the late arrival but if that was an empty space, the project would be his. It turns out the winning idea of \u200b\u200bparking.
"I love the car because I'm a rebel and I have always liked the unconventional places. The parking places are not typical of our times, because Democrats always open to all but hidden under the ground, gray, sad, mournful, designed to hide - this explains devouring truffles -. The parking of Valencia, for ecological materials save energy and to teach walking, stimulates curiosity, because every plan is different to tell the city, with directions and time to get to the most significant. The blue suggeriscge the idea of \u200b\u200bwater (beaches and port), green parks and gardens, the yellow people (markets and city council), the red culture (Cathedral and museums). An architecture communicator. " The queen of car parks, however, never forgets his roots. For the Christmas holidays always wake in Sestriere. And in its fields and high society receptions and has invariably gianduiotti Gobino chocolate.
La Stampa La Repubblica
Teresa Sapey Architecture Studio
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