Emotional Heritage

Emotional Heritage presents, for the first time in France, the ongoingwork of Flores & Prats architects, exploring how places and built spaces can be understood as living repositories of emotions and memories. The exhibition unfolds through an immersive installation that shows the studio’s working environment, allowing visitors to engage directly with the methodological processes that underpin the practice. Through drawings, models, and spatial narratives, the project demonstrates how the creative reuse of existing buildings can offer a meaningful and forward-looking direction for contemporary architecture.

This approach to reusing the inherited environment is grounded in a deliberate refusal of demolition and a deep respect for the layered histories embedded within each site. By acknowledging and valuing the diverse stories that have unfolded over time, architecture becomes a tool for continuity rather than rupture, enabling the gradual emergence of new programs, uses, and ways of life. In this perspective, buildings and places remain active participants in everyday life, preserving and renewing the social, emotional, and personal relationships that have been patiently constructed across time.