Artiach – Urban Memory – ZAWP

Espacio Open

cosmox — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 08:37:56 +0000

Espacio Open is one of the cultural initiatives that gives life to La Ribera de Deusto / Zorrotzaurre. It is located in the Artiach building, giving new use to part of the space that was for years the Bilbao Cookie Factory.
From here it develops a diversity of projects such as the Open Your Ganbara market, the Maker Faire technology festival or the Fab Lab Bilbao technology school.

Espacio Open website

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Guretxoko skateskola

cosmox — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 14:45:28 +0000

Guretxoko is the first skate school in Bilbao.

It is established in 2006 in a disused space making a transformation of the space through which a covered skatepark is created for the promotion of skateboarding.

Guretxoko web

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Zirkozaurre

cosmox — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 14:07:00 +0000

Zirkozarrre is a center of creation and exhibition of circus and performative arts located in Artiach building since 2012.
It is designed to live and share the different disciplines related to the circus, integrating these disciplines in the neighborhood so that both can be enhanced and projected to Bilbao and the territory of Euskadi.
The Association, which has it’s origin in the disappeared center of Kukutza, is created to seek the professionalization of the circus sector with special attention to training, creation and mediation.

Zirkozaurre webpage.

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Artiach

cosmox — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 17:47:01 +0000

This building was the first one designed and built to be a biscuit factory in Spain. Its designer was the engineer of the same family José Artiach Gárate.
In 1923 the factory had 67 people on staff, 55 of them were women.They received between 3 and 9 pesetas per day depending on their specialization. In 1924, with 88 workers (63 women), they established a shift system with which they manufactured 18 tons a day, double than until that date. In the 40s there were 600 people working at Artiach. In the 70s the factory experienced a period of splendor in its plant of Ribera de Deusto, reaching up to 800 people. Manufacturing, although industrial, needed a lot of labor.

Later Artiach was divided into different premises being occupied by different owners such as Comercil Férrica S.A.

Since 2012 the building has hosted several cultural projects.

The urban plan of Zorrozaurre contemplates the conservation of part of this industrial building.

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Publications of interest related to Artiach (Spanish):