Rabanne In Trintxerpe

Today at Berria:

Paco Rabanne’s universe in Trintxerpe

The presentation has taken place of the cultural centre scheduled to be built in the designer’s home town; the cultural centre, which will house and make the artist’s works known, will have an institute and museum, and its doors will be open to young creators

Ainara Gorostitzu – PASAIA (Gipuzkoa)

Paco Rabanne has received proposals for the building of his museum from all over the world, from Barcelona and Madrid, in particular, but the designer wants to create his universe, his cultural centre in his native town of Trintxerpe [a neighbourhood of Pasaia near San Sebastian]. “If the project goes ahead, it will be for my people, for Trintxerpe,” said the artist yesterday during the visit to see the site where they want to build his centre. Accompanied by the mayoress of Pasaia, Izaskun Gomez, the manager of Oarsoaldea S.A., Fernando Nebreda, and the architect, Julian Argilagos, Paco Rabanne presented “the open project” they want to build on the Herrera quay of Trintxerpe.

The Paco Rabanne Kulturgunea (cultural centre) will be a place that will bear witness to the designer who made it to the most important catwalks using recycled and recyclable material, and it will also house his awards. The architect Argilagos, responsible for the Balentziaga museum of Getaria and who will also design the one in Trintxerpe, said that the new museum would be “a stage for coexistence and cultural interaction.” The quay area of Trintxerpe will consist of four architectonic blocks: one will become the International Institute for Design and Industry based on on-going studies linking Rabanne’s philosophy with ecodesign; another the Paco Rabanne museum, the aim of which is to house the legacy of his works and of those of the designers that come after him; lastly there will be an area of ecohotels and a lecture theatre. In the words of the architect the cultural centre aims “to link culture, art and economy through ecodesign.” To this end continuous research into the new technologies, design and fashion will be needed.

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