For the leisure of working insects

For the leisure of working insects, proposes to devise and build a leisure architecture for insects. The project reflects, through play and irony, on aspects of the current world such as the human footprint on the landscape, absurdity and simulation.

In today's society there are all kinds of places for entertainment where work and suffering seem to be forgotten. These oases promise absolute happiness, but in their essence they reveal an emptiness determined by the loop of capitalism, in which our free time becomes a second job where we spend the money of the first. At the centre of this wheel are the great world metropolises competing to build ‘the tallest building’, ‘the shopping centre with the most shops’... All these grandiose ideas are sculpted in an architecture that is as exaggerated as it is desirable. For the leisure of working insects proposes to transform these spaces to build a leisure architecture for insects. Focusing on a type of leisure built on nature but far from nature, in spaces that you have to pay to enjoy, the project offers scenarios in which we could imagine an ant in its moment of disconnection after a day's work.

Through the decontextualisation of these architectures, the project aims to confront the laughter and strangeness provoked by the sight of a shopping centre for insects with the desire for luxury produced by this very thing built for us. By using irony as an analytical tool, the tragic ridiculousness of a panorama saturated with leisure, stimuli and artifice that inevitably leads to an existentialist abyss becomes evident.The insects are, in this project, a tiny but forceful reflection of our society: on the one hand, tireless workers; on the other, indifferent witnesses of the landscape transformed by our excessive ambition.