Decommissioned #1.
From a zipline to a swing.

A large-scale experiment of material upcycling.

The Swing in Librán is created through a meticulous process of upcycling the materials reclaimed from an abandoned zip line structure made of steel beams, which are deconstructed, cut, sanded and welded to create a truncated pyramid resulting from the optimization in the number of necessary cuts. The scars of its previous life are presented through the different shades of color, which show the operations carried out on the materials to reuse them. This first experiment serves as an entry into reconsidering the collective waste produced by our cities and towns and questions how we might begin to creatively reuse them.

Authors: Pareid Architecture (Déborah López + Hadin Charbel)
Engineering: Id0 Ingeniería
Constructor: BruCons Bierzo S.L.
Client: Council of Toreno
Drawings by: Pareid Architecture
Photos: Iván Casal Nieto
Camera: Víctor F. Crespo