BOUNDLESS FOREST
Judit Lastres Aguilera + Alejandro Segarra Quiles
Abstract The P.R.E. course has a clear instrumental vocation aimed to equip students with the necessary tools for learning a basic architectural language that allows, therefore, to demonstrate purposeful relationships of some complexity. The course assumes that the main feature and “Beauty” –or even better, the main interest or relevancy- of architecture is not talking about “Reality” per se but to speak of Reality only if done through architecture. This may seem obvious but, however, is not evident. This characterizes use and must differentiate us. The loss ofthis understanding and/orneed of what is essentially ours (the architectural) to talk about what is common instead (thereal) can lea dto a perversere placement: the(re) construction* of Reality by its mere narrative or fiction. Our goal is not only to state “what is already happening,” but to propose guidelines for its construction. Similarly, our production has to construct reality (or at least hypothesize how to materialize it) and not just stage its reality or its transformation (in the best case).
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*Construction is understood not as the search for a physical material execution but as the search for guidelines that allow the configuration / execution of an idea.
Index 1_Phase 5: Hybridations
page 04
2_Phase 1: Findings
page 10
3_Phase 2: Reductions
page 12
4_Phase 3, 4, 5 (Models comparative)
page 14
5_Phase 3, 4, 5 (Floors comparative)
page 18
6_Phase 3, 4, 5 (Facades comparative)
page 22
7_Phase 3, 4, 5 (Sections comparative)
page 26
8_Phase 3, 4, 5 (Axonometry comparative)
page 30
9_Notebook
page 34
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Phase 5: Hybridations
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Having fallen The cherry flowers, The temple belongs to the branches
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Phase 5: Hybridations
Forest of ashes. In the shadows with frost Sunshine.
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Scale 1/100
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Phase 5: Hybridations
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Spring at home There is nothing Yet there is everything.
Scale 1/100
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Phase 1: Findings
The flowers have fallen Now our minds are Quiet. -10-
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Phase 2: Reductions
When I looked back The man who passed Was lost in the fog. -12-
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Models comparison
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Having fallen The cherry flowers, The temple belongs to the branches. -15-
Models comparison
A sweet noise Interrupts my dream. Drops of rain over the leaves.
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Plans comparison
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This path No one goes through it anymore Except for the twilight. Scale 1/200
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Plans comparison This spring in my cabin Absolutely nothing Absolutely everything.
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Scale 1/200
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Facade comparison
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Strong bark You cover the forest quickly Precious bamboo.
Scale 1/200
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Facade comparison
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Under the rain of summer The path Disappeared.
Scale 1/200
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Sections comparison
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Under the rain of summer The path Disappeared.
Scale 1/200
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Sections comparison
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Rain in the forest Spiralling A leave falls.
Scale 1/200
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Axonometry comparison
The one-winged seeds Of the maple tree, falling. Summer sun through clouds.
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Axonometry comparison
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Beautiful white clouds Like a fleet in the blue sky cannot hide the sun.
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NOTEBOOK