THE LEATHER CRAFT COLLECTIVE

by Manuel Urbina

The scheme aims to re-appropriate the guild, creating a centre for the production, research and promotion of the material. Through not only exhibiting the applications of the material internally, the creation of a material research centre, along with new innovative applications of the material within the architecture itself aim to provide new contemporary uses which can sustain the town. The scheme sits into the hillside from which the alabaster is extracted, locating the workshops within the strata, relating them directly to the source.