14 – 28 September 2015 School of Architecture La Salle, Barcelona www.oikonet.org/thinking_dwelling
Experiencing
Reflecting
Representing
Projecting
House of the Future, by Alison and Peter Smithson, 1956
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PROGRAM
REPRESENTING Activities delivered by the students
EXPERIENCING Activities delivered by the students
PROJECTING Activities delivered by the students
PARTICIPANTS
THINKING DWELLING: A COLLECTIVE REFLECTION ON CONTEMPORARY HOUSING CARRIED OUT WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF STUDENTS AND FACULTY FROM THE OIKONET NETWORK
PRESENTATION
THINKING DWELLING is a pedagogic program designed by the School of Architecture La Salle, Ramon Llull University, coordinator of the OIKONET network, co-funded by the Education, Culture and Audiovisual Executive Agency, from the European Union. The objective of THINKING DWELLING is to bring together students and faculty from the OIKONET partner schools in a joint reflection about the forms of living in the contemporary world. The purpose of these reflections is to develop an understanding of the conditions of today’s dwelling and to figure out the role of the architect in the process of defining the spaces we inhabit. THINKING DWELLING provides a blended-learning environment which encompasses on-line and on-site pedagogic activities. Students and faculty of all courses and levels from the OIKONET partner schools have been invited to participate in the activities of this new learning space. Three kinds of activities were proposed to be carried out on the on-line platform THINKING DWELLING (www.oikonet.org/thinking_dwelling), each of them approaching the topic of dwelling from a different perspective: Representing dwelling through different art forms; Experiencing ways to inhabit spaces in a personal manner; and Projecting the life of inhabitants onto well-known residential buildings. Some of the on-line activities have been intertwined with other tasks carried out within specific programs at the participating schools, thus forging links between different courses, programs and schools through the activities of THINKING DWELLING.
Prof. Leandro Madrazo School of Architecture La Salle October 2015
12:30 PM / HALL “EDIFICI SANT JOSEP” ARCH.
FRIDAY 18
BESTUÉ & VIVES / ACCIONES EN CASA (ACTIONS AT HOME)
PROJECTION IN CONTINUOUS SESSION / HALL
ANNA BACH / DESIGN IS A WAY TO CONDENSE TIME - THE HEXENHAUS CASE
12:30 PM / ROOM Q9 “EDIFICI SANT JOSEP” ARCH.
CARLOS ALBISU / DWELLING ON DWELLING
DANI GRANADOS / SCALE MATTERS
12:30 PM / ROOM Q9 “EDIFICI SANT JOSEP” ARCH.
12:30 PM / HALL “EDIFICI SANT JOSEP” ARCH.
HELENA MARTIN / TO DWELL IS ALSO TO CELEBRATE: NEW MUSIC AND HAPPENING AT LA RICARDA, 1963
PERE BUIL / LOST SPACES vs. OPPORTUNITY SPACES
12:30 PM / ROOM Q9 “EDIFICI SANT JOSEP” ARCH.
THURSDAY 17
WEDNESDAY 16
12.30 PM / HALL “EDIFICI SANT JOSEP” ARCH.
TUESDAY 15
PEDRO GARCIA / DIVING INTO ARCHITECTURE
12.00 AM / AUDITORIUM “EDIFICI SANT JOSEP” ARCH.
LEANDRO MADRAZO / INTRODUCTION TO THINKING DWELLING
MONDAY 14
WEEK 1 (14-18 SEPT)
00.00 AM
STUDENT ACTIVITIES’ PRESENTATIONS
14.00 PM / HALL “EDIFICI SANT JOSEP” ARCH.
STUDENT ACTIVITIES’ PRESENTATIONS
14.00 PM / HALL “EDIFICI SANT JOSEP” ARCH.
STUDENT ACTIVITIES’ PRESENTATIONS
14.00 PM / HALL “EDIFICI SANT JOSEP” ARCH.
STUDENT ACTIVITIES’ PRESENTATIONS
14.00 PM / HALL “EDIFICI SANT JOSEP” ARCH.
STUDENT ACTIVITIES’ PRESENTATIONS
14.00 PM / HALL “EDIFICI SANT JOSEP” ARCH.
WORKS SUBMITTED BY PARTICIPANTS On-line format. Activities
ACTIVITIES PROGRAM — LA SALLE
FRIDAY 18
THURSDAY 24
WEDNESDAY 23
TUESDAY 22
MONDAY 21
WEEK 2 (21-25 SEPT)
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PROJECT STUDIO V / DWELLERS’ NEEDS INFLUCENCING THE DESIGN PROCESS After working on the THINKING DWELLING activities, students will gain an understanding of the dwellers’ needs. These needs will be taken into consideration in the design program of the projects together with other environmental conditions of the site.
PROJECT STUDIO IV / HOW ARE THEY DWELLING? As Iñaki Ábalos proposes in his book “The good life”, students will take an imaginary tour through some houses to identify the characters that suit the spaces, the way dwellers live and the ways they think about the world they live in. Students will make these reflections through the activities of THINKING DWELLING: Representing, Experiencing and Projecting.
PROJECT STUDIO II / DRAWING IS DISCOVERING After the execution of the THINKING DWELLING activities, students will draw their own home (apartment or room) in different ways. First of all, they will draw it from the heart, later they will draft a measured floorplan by hand, and finally they will draw the plans in a CAD program.
HISTORY OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE / DWELLING AS MANIFESTED THROUGH THE ARTS Students will be given six short passages from musical compositions that evoke an interior architectural space. The students will choose one of the musical excerpts and submit an image (sketch, picture, photography, and photomontage) of the dwelling that the music evokes in them. Once the exercise is completed, the names of the six pieces of music and the authors will be revealed.
The following courses will integrate the activities of THINKING DWELLING in their respective programs.
PARTICIPATING COURSES — LA SALLE
RESEARCH SEMINAR ON CONTEMPORARY HOUSING / INTERACTING WITH SPACES In this seminar, students will visit the area of study -Les Corts district in Barcelona- to become acquainted with the neighbourhood and with the dwellers. They will examine the ways in which neighbours interact with the urban spaces, how they use them and occupy them, and what meanings they give to them. Participating in the THINKING DWELLING activities will enable students to focus on their own interactions in public space. This self-reflection will help them to understand, at a later stage, the ways citizens establish links with the spaces they live in.
MODEL WORKSHOP / DWELLING IN SCALE “Dwelling” a scale model of your own project is an exercise in imagination. It is an exercise to project ourselves in the reduced spaces of the model for describing the experience of inhabiting them.
CONSTRUCTION I - II / COMFORT & DWELLING Students will analyze their own home from the standpoint of the comfort achieved with the materials and construction systems. First, they will make drawings of the floor-plan, sections and constructive detailing. Afterwards, students will describe the links between the feelings of the dwellers and the material elements of the building.
INSTALLATIONS I - II / COMFORTABLE HOUSING Students will be given nine buildings and have to identify their location and the qualities of their environment. They will explain how the building creates comfort (hydrothermal, acoustic, lighting) by considering the conditions of the environment.
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REPRESENTING Dwelling as manifested through the arts The object of this activity is to provide examples of ways of living through different art forms. For example, the relation of inhabitants and space expressed in a film scene, in a painting, in a passage of a literary work, in a sound...
Adrià Sànchez-Llorens Percussion Quartet. Sounds referred to everyday life. The special connection between music and space. The first and last movements of this piece are to be played on household objects,
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LIVING ROOM MUSIC, TO BEGIN
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Angel Martín Edward Hopper, “Sun in an empty room”, 1963 TAGS: light, emptiness, domestic space, materiality
EDWARD HOPPER, “SUN IN AN EMPTY ROOM”, 1963 DESCRIPTION:
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Leandro Madrazo The image puts into relationship interior and exterior space, in different ways. First, the photograph transforms the exterior space into an image that becomes part of the room, as if it would be a landscape painting “hung” on the wall. An image -the landscape- within another image – the photograph of two women in the living room. The image of the exterior fills the interior. Even though the two inhabitants seem not to be aware of it, absorbed as they seem to be in their domestic activities -ironing and reading- the exterior has penetrated the interior. The urban space, transformed into an image, becomes part of the interior of the home. The window belongs to the building, but the image that is cropped by the window is part of the outside. Second, if we take
“VIEW FROM AN APARTMENT”, FROM JEFF WALL- INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR
Macarena Gomez-Salazar An illusion of the space is generated in a never-endless axonometric perspective TAGS: geometry, space usage, rationalization
MERCE CUNNINGHAM
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RELATIVITY. M.C. ESCHER. 1956
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Macarena Gomez-Salazar One should know what architecture makes them feel and what you would like other people to feel when experiencing architecture and living it TAGS: NormanFoster, Inspiring
DOES ARCHITECTURE MOVE YOU?
such as magazines, a table, books, or the floor, or using household architectural “objects,” such as window frames. https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=soHjrfr1Yvw tags: domestic space, interaction
Helena Martín Nieva People who live in glass houses should not throw stones TAGS: home, materiality, time, photography DESCRIPTION:
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EL TASSÓ (THE GLASS) BY TONI CATANY, 1979
the position of the photographer, there is a clear distinction between inside and outside space. We –as the photographer– are placed inside the room and see the exterior as detached from it, far in the distance. There is no spatial continuity from the interior onto the exterior. The image of the outside, framed by the window, is part of the wall that separates the domestic space from the public realm tags: domestic space, photography, exterior space
Sissy Díaz “A multipurpose space, where you can do any activity that makes you happy” TAGS: multipurpose space
Dimitrios Triantafyllou The house is the junction of privacy with a small window to the outer world TAGS: house, privacy DESCRIPTION:
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THE HOUSE IS THE JUNCTION OF
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Gisela Pere When talking about living it doesn´t only refer to the
RICHARD LONG
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Gisela Pere DESCRIPTION: Over the years, the house becomes a reflection of our experiences TAGS: place, overview, reflection
ULISES
Dimitris Antoniou DESCRIPTION: Inhabited space transcends geometrical scape... The house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace... Something closed must retain our memories... As imagination augments the values of reality, it is striking that even in our homes, where there is AUTHOR:
THE HOUSE IS A JUNCTION OF DAYDREAM_PHOTO-MONTAGE #1
The door as sudden shut, and I, I, lost, was passing by,– Lost doubly, but by contrast most, Enlightening misery.” – Emily Dickinson TAGS: house, sense, life
“A door just opened on a street– I, lost, was passing by– An instant’s width of warmth disclosed And wealth, and company.
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Kim Chung Dung Vu House is the conjunction of senses, in other words, architects are designers of senses. When the door closes, house itself forms a separated world, regulates emotion of people living in it. It affects the way people look at life. It can become a prison or paradise, where people feel stressed or comfortable, where love grows up, or vice versa.
SENSES
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Marina Rifà Bofill Your house, your house is where there are no rules, where there is no audience, no voices, no eyes. Is the place where the mask which has been used all day falls off, where just at the entrance, you take out a breath of reality to enter in our ideal world. This is what home means. Be yourself. Be your home TAGS: comfort
YOURSELF
house area. The paths and the surroundings are pieces that have to match in the place TAGS: paths, place, landscape
Alexandru Dascau DESCRIPTION: The perfect life is feeling the happiness being home and the excitement as you are always in a holiday! TAGS: life, Magic, landscape, daydream, comfort AUTHOR:
FEELING EVERYDAY AS BEING IN HOLIDAY
light, our consciousness of well-being calls for comparison with animals in their shelter... Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories we add to our store of dreams; we are never near historians but always near poets. Reorganized extracts from the book “The Poetics of Space” by Gaston Bachelard TAGS: daydream
Zora Starcevic “...behind dark curtains snow seems to be whiter...” Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard TAGS: shades, house
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THE HOUSE IS A JUNCTION OF...SHADES
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Laurence Dugardyn The house is a junction of lightness and darkness, joy and grief TAGS: lightness, darkness
THE HOUSE IS A JUNCTION OF LIGHTNESS AND DARKNESS, JOY AND GRIEF
Nesma Sharrouf House is junction of memories,reflect the sun to your shadow
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REFLECTION
Stijn Witdouck A house is a junction of traces. Traces of thoughts, traces of behaviour.
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THE HOUSE IS A JUNCTION OF TRACES
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Ignacio Galรกn ... of hopes, of illusion, of intimate memories, of longawaited instants...
THE HOUSE IS THE JUNCTION OF FANTASY AND REALITY
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Stephanne Goethals The house is the junction of the visible and the invisible
THE HOUSE IS THE JUNCTION OF THE VISIBLE AND THE INVISIBLE
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Sophie Nieuwbourg The house is a junction of absent presences TAGS: absent, presences
THE HOUSE IS A JUNCTION OF ABSENT PRESENCES
Elien Caubergh The house is a junction of material and time
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THE HOUSE IS A JUNCTION OF MATERIAL AND TIME
Traces give meaning and time to spaces. Did you leave if you arrived, or did you remain when you departed. Traces bring depth and recognition, visually and emotional TAGS: presences
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EXPERIENCING Personal ways of living The purpose of this activity is to depict our own relationships with the spaces we live in, using any form of representation: a drawing, a video, a photograph, a text, a sound, in any combination.
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Adrià Sànchez-Llorens The kitchen. This specific space where, day by day,
SPACE FOR THE BODY, SPACE FOR LIFE
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Adrià Sànchez-Llorens Performance Art. David Bestué y Marc Vives, “Acciones en Casa”, 2006 TAGS: housing, space usage
ACCIONES EN CASA
Tomas Ooms DESCRIPTION: A Photograph a Day 1/7. Based on the Poem “Elements of the house” (see previous post) I will create a series of photographs. I will try to post A Photograph a Day during the Thinking Dwelling event. Please feel free to react. With this series I will explore if I can add new junctions to the elements of the house. Photograph 1/7, the music room obliquely enlightened by the streetlight. The house is the junction of music and the vale colour of the gas discharge streetlight TAGS: home, light, domestic space, elements AUTHOR:
A PHOTOGRAPH A DAY 1/7. THE MUSIC ROOM OBLIQUELY ENLIGHTENED, DISCHARGED
Tomas Ooms A Photograph a Day 3/7. The house is the junction of refracted images, of wall, floor and window TAGS: home, light, emptiness, elements
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A PHOTOGRAPH A DAY 3/7.THE HOUSE IS THE JUNCTION OF REFRACTED IMAGES
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Helena MartĂn Nieva THINKING DWELLING ACTION. On Thursday 17 September, at 9 pm, I am working at home TAGS: home
THINKING DWELLING ACTION
are developed and repeated the elementary actions of domestic life. This space where you can feel in touch with peace; the dreamlike place where you know that you are still at home, and where other people feel like guests TAGS: domestic space
Tomas Ooms A Photograph a Day 2/7. The house is the junction of the knowing and the forgetting, the waiting and the longing TAGS: home, domestic space, interaction DESCRIPTION:
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A PHOTOGRAPH A DAY 2/7. THE HOUSE IS THE JUNCTION OF THE KNOWING AND THE FORGETTING, THE WAITING AND THE LONGING
Tomas Ooms A Photograph a Day 4/7. The house is the junction of food and thoughts, the real and the representation, of still life and the movement of my soul. Nourished as I think of you TAGS: home, interaction, materiality DESCRIPTION:
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A PHOTOGRAPH A DAY 4/7. THE HOUSE IS THE JUNCTION OF FOOD AND THOUGHTS, THE REAL AND THE REPRESENTATION
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Roberto Salda単a On Thursday 17 September, at 9 pm, I just arrived home from a long day at school TAGS: home
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THINKING DWELLING ACTION DESCRIPTION:
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Marcel Reixach THINKING DWELLING ACTION. On Thursday 17 September, at 9 pm, I am sketching at home TAGS: home, art, light
THINKING DWELLING ACTION
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Tomas Ooms A Photograph a Day 5/7. The house is the junction of the wall and the garden, and the chair in the middle. Where I envy the tree for dropping her leaves TAGS: home, poetry, emptiness
A PHOTOGRAPH A DAY 5/7. THE HOUSE IS THE JUNCTION OF THE WALL AND THE GARDEN, AND THE CHAIR IN THE MIDDLE
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Cláudio Vieira THINKING DWELLING ACTION. On Thursday 17 September, at 9 pm, I am watching videos at home TAGS: domestic space, home
THINKING DWELLING ACTION
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Iván Moreno DESCRIPTION: THINKING DWELLING ACTION. On Thursday 17 September, at 9 pm, I am studying at home TAGS: home
THINKING DWELLING ACTION Santiago Pie Menéndez DESCRIPTION: I am in the kitchen folding clothes. Dwelling in the kitchen TAGS: art, home
Adrià Sànchez-Llorens On Thursday 17 September, at 9 pm, I am inhabiting the modelling atelier TAGS: home, interaction DESCRIPTION:
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I AM IN THE KITCHEN FOLDING CLOTHES
Tomas Ooms A Photograph a Day 6/7. The house is the junction of pipes and fittings, networks of infrastructure, commodities and stories. Of the missing brickwork, the framed nothing that exposes and creates paradoxical proximities TAGS: home, poetry, photography, solid , elements
Oscar Junyent On Saturday 19 September, at 9pm, I am watching TV at home DESCRIPTION:
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A PHOTOGRAPH A DAY 6/7 THE HOUSE IS THE JUNCTION OF
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Andrea Berruezo DESCRIPTION: On Thursday 17 September, at 9pm, I am reading at home
THINKING DWELLING ACTION
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Arnau Roca THINKING DWELLING ACTION. On Saturday 19 September, at 9pm, I am having dinner with friends TAGS: exterior space
THINKING DWELLING PROJECT
Marta Barella On Saturday 19 September, at 10 pm, I am walking at the Parc de la Ciutadella DESCRIPTION:
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THINKING DWELLING ACTION
Ramon Barniol Giné I am watching a movie
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Ignacio Poch DESCRIPTION: On sarurday 19th september, at 9pm, I’m discovering new places in Spain TAGS: views
THINKING DWELLING ACTION
at home
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THINKING DWELLING ACTION
Hugo Jimenez Multifunctional space TAGS: interior space
Tomás Feliu García DESCRIPTION: On Saturday 19th September, at 9pm, I am waiting for the underground TAGS: interior space AUTHOR:
THINKING DWELLING ACTION
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THIKING DWELLING ACTION
Javier Garcia On Saturday 19 September, at 9pm I am reading the newspaper at home office
Tomas Ooms A Photograph a Day 6/7 The house is the junction of... me TAGS: poetry, elements
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A PHOTOGRAPH A DAY 7/7 THE HOUSE IS THE JUNCTION OF...
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THINKING DWELLING ACTION
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Carla Sentieri The place where to have the meals is so important for stay, talk and share the life that the light must be wonderful. The space is between the exterior and the Little courtyard. And interior space between to exterior spaces TAGS: dinning room, visual continuity, light DESCRIPTION:
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Carla Sentieri The light is coming thought the Windows and the shadows are still there TAGS: light, shadow, interior space, house
ONE DAY IN A HOUSE IN 8 STEPS_ 03_ THE TABLE FOR MEALS
ONE DAY IN A HOUSE IN 8 STEPS_IN THE MORNING
Carla Sentieri To read in a calm place, protected from the sun, looking the tree TAGS: studio, light, tree, lecture
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ONE DAY IN A HOUSE IN 8 STEPS_06 READING WITH A TREE
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Carla Sentieri DESCRIPTION: The relation between the kitchen and the living room is so directly that you can share everything TAGS: visual continuity, interior space, house, living room, kitchen
ONE DAY IN A HOUSE IN 8 STEPS_ PREPARING THE BREAKFAST
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Carla Sentieri DESCRIPTION: The protection into the house, the time for a siesta TAGS: living room, house, interior space
ONE DAY IN A HOUSE IN 8 STEPS_04 RESTING AFTER THE LUNCH
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Carla Sentieri Just put in order the kitchen looking outside. The window dissapear inside the Wall... TAGS: kitchen, visual continuity, window
ONE DAY IN A HOUSE IN 8 STEPS_04 AFTER LUNCH
Carla Sentieri A walk around the place where the house is TAGS: place, exterior space
Carla Sentieri A walk around the place where the house is TAGS: exterior space
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ONE DAY IN A HOUSE IN 8 STEPS_07 A WALK
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ONE DAY IN A HOUSE IN 8 STEPS_07 A WALK
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THE HOUSE IS THE JUNCTION
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Carla Sentieri house is the people who lives there and the place where the house is. It is imposible to understand the house without the way of living and that is what converts a house in a home and in a wonderful place TAGS: place, intellectual, house
ONE DAY IN HOUSE IN 8 STEPS_ 08 THE PEOPLE DESCRIPTION:
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Sanja Djurdjevic The House is Junction of Moments TAGS: house, moment
THE HOUSE IS A JUNCTION OF MOMENTS
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Arsenii Kuznetsov House is the junction of freedom with imprisonment. It is up to you how to feel about your house/home Copyright: Photo by Michael Gollotti TAGS: freedom, imprisonment, house, nest
FREEDOM/IMPRISONMENT
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Monica Delgado There is no universal order. There is order in disorder TAGS: organized chaos, house
OF ORGANIZED CHAOS
Davide Agostini It’s the place where you stop, and place from where you start
Veronika Krysta The house is the junction of love, hate, memory, desires, ecstasy...intimacy TAGS: moment DESCRIPTION:
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INTIMACY
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THE HOUSE IS A JUNCTION OF STILLNESS AND MOVEMENT
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PROJECTING Living stories This activity has to do with collecting personal experiences about renowned houses we have had the opportunity to visit or even to live in. It consists of selecting a photograph of the house and projecting on it the life of their –real or ideal– inhabitants.
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Adrià Sànchez-Llorens Can Lis, Jorn Utzon’s house, 1972. Where history, architecture, light and material found a place to live in common TAGS: housing, materiality
CAN LIS. MATERIAL AND LIGHT
were not intellectual but “corporeal” because he kept transforming the house as he was living in it, day after day: he did not imagine the way to live, he just dwelled –and built. Smithson seems to skip the fact that the Schroeder house also underwent different transformations during the time Ms. Schröder and her children were living there. Smithson identifies “intellectual” with “imagining”, and imagining with “designing”. Corporeal would mean the absence of the act of imagination that precedes building, that is, the absence of design. But both houses are indeed “designed”, although with different strategies which lead to different results –spatial, formal, functional and aesthetic. In so far as they have been designed, they are both the outcome of an intellectual work –although of a different kind. But perhaps the main difference between the two houses needs to be found elsewhere, for example, in the concept of space. In the Schröder house the interplay between form and space is contained within the invisible envelope that limits the building. What the architect has “designed”, or imagined, is precisely this interplay between form and space, circumscribed to some predetermined spatial limits. In the Hexenhaus, form is subsumed under Anastasia Dokuchaeva Light effects designed by geometry and shadows in the space of the house TAGS: light, house, interior space DESCRIPTION:
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KOSHINO HOUSE, TADAO ANDO, 1984
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Leandro Madrazo Peter Smithson once compared the house that Rietveld built for Ms. Schröder to the Hexenhaus that the he and Allison built for Axel Bruchhäuser. The house from Rietveld, Smithson argued, was the outcome of the “intellectual” decisions from Ms. Schroeder, because she imagined in advance how she wanted to live. The decisions from Mr. Bruchhäuser, on the other hand,
SCHROEDER HOUSE VS. HEXENHAUS
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Helena Martín Nieva DESCRIPTION: After visiting the Prado Museum, what a better farewell than dwelling on Cristina Iglesias’ door for a while TAGS: sculpture, art, materiality
CRISTINA IGLESIAS’ DOOR
David Huri To dwell does not mean to be enclosed by four solid walls, we can get the sense of privacy by creating controlled transparency, by creating a living and loosen space in which the boundary between inside and outside will carefully vanish TAGS: macba, species of spaces, transparency, solid DESCRIPTION:
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WHEN TRANSPARENT BECOMES SOLID
space; space is the driver of the formal development. There seems to be no pre-established limits for the formal growth (in this sense, it can be contended that the house was not “imagined”). Space expands as if the body, in fact, would move occupying space. The house is then the materialization of that movement through space and time, the built expression of dwelling in a place TAGS: space usage, design, time, dwelling, intellectual, corporeal Stefani Vozila David Chipperfield, “House in Corrubedo”: living space where interior and exterior spaces merge into one TAGS: interior space, dwelling, views, chipperfeld, space usage
Sissy Díaz "It’s like yourself" TAGS: reflection DESCRIPTION:
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MAURITS CORNELIS ESCHER
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VIEW INTO INFINITY
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Claudia Pecharroman DESCRIPTION: He is a poet and Catalan translator and his work is considered transgressive. His housing is projected between dividing, a definite and fenced space. A diaphanous space is looked, with the location of the services in the back part of the housing TAGS: simplicity
ENRIC CASASSES DESCRIPTION:
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Guillaume Bernard Dwelling it’s not only about making spaces practical but also enjoyable TAGS: comfort
SHARE A SQUARE
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Júlia Boix Finnish house TAGS: landscape, daydream, magic, comfort
WHITE
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Catarina Veiga The character is David Copperfield and this image show the idea of his house and the personality. A magician is a person who tells a story for the audience and only shows what matters to him. This is a mirrored glass house and it represents that the magician can see all his audience but the audience only sees what he wants it to see TAGS: copperfield, magic, home
MIRROR CUBE TREEHOUSE
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Julie Arnal Arnal As Antonio Bonet wanted to do in La Ricarda, living inside doesn’t mean to live in an enclosure space TAGS: landscape, overview, magic
HAVING AN EXTERIOR INSIDE
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PARTICIPANTS ETSA UPV Carla Sentieri — FACULTY MEMBER
KU_LEUVEN Tomas Ooms — FACULTY MEMBER Arsenii Kuznetsov — STUDENT Davide Agostini — STUDENT Dimitrios Triantafyllou — STUDENT Dimitris Antoniou — STUDENT Elien Caubergh — STUDENT Ignacio Galán — STUDENT Kim Chung Dung Vu — STUDENT Laurence Dugardyn — STUDENT Monica Delgado — STUDENT Nesma Sharrouf — STUDENT Sanja Djurdjevic — STUDENT Sophie Nieuwbourg — STUDENT Stephanne Goethals — STUDENT Stijn Witdouck — STUDENT Veronika Krysta — STUDENT Zora Starcevic — STUDENT
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PARTICIPANTS LA SALLE Leandro Madrazo — FACULTY MEMBER Angel Martín — FACULTY MEMBER Adrià Sànchez-Llorens — FACULTY MEMBER Helena Martín Nieva — FACULTY MEMBER Adrià Andreu Termes — STUDENT Adrián Ruiz — Student Alexandra Hernandez — STUDENT Alexandru Dascau — STUDENT Anastasia Dokuchaeva — STUDENT Andrea Berruezo — STUDENT Arnau Roca — STUDENT Braddin Ley — STUDENT Catarina Veiga — STUDENT Claudia Pecharroman — STUDENT Cláudio Vieira — STUDENT Dalila Romero — STUDENT David Huri — STUDENT Estefanía Pellicer Martínez — STUDENT Gisela Pere — STUDENT Guillaume Bernard — STUDENT Guillermo Zamora — STUDENT Hugo Jimenez — STUDENT Ia Mateu — STUDENT Ignacio Poch — STUDENT Iván Moreno — STUDENT Javier Garcia — STUDENT Judith Bertocchi — STUDENT Julia Marbà Prats — STUDENT Julie Arnal Arnal — STUDENT Julio Cesar Villalta — STUDENT Júlia Boix — STUDENT Livia Di Pietro — STUDENT Lluís Pozo Massó — STUDENT Macarena Gomez-Salazar — STUDENT Marc-Romà Trepat Pérez — STUDENT Marcel Reixach — STUDENT Maria Barniol — STUDENT Marina Rifà Bofill — STUDENT
Marta Alonso — STUDENT Marta Barella — STUDENT Marta Riera — STUDENT Miquel Vila — STUDENT Mireia Nebot Julve — STUDENT Nada Yackout — STUDENT Núria Baqué Soler — STUDENT Oscar Junyent — STUDENT Ramon Barniol Giné — STUDENT Roberto Saldaña — STUDENT Sandra Ruiz — STUDENT Santiago Pié Menéndez — STUDENT Scott Lenton — STUDENT Sissy Díaz — STUDENT Stefani Vozila — STUDENT Tomás Feliu García — STUDENT Victor Canal — STUDENT Xavier Bardina — STUDENT
Leandro Madrazo, Adrià Sànchez Llorens, Angel Martín Cojo, editors Marcos Segovia, Marta Salgado, on-line platform implementation Anna Bohigas, graphic design © 2015. School of Architecture la Salle, Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, SPAIN