laura G: September 2010

Unseeing eyes, Souls deprived of hope.

The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis. And in this respect I will take advantage of this opportunity to pay homage to a very dear friend who, through his infallible aesthetic taste, taught us the difficult art of seeing with innocence...

Through sight the good and the bad
we do perceive
Unseeing eyes
Souls deprived of hope.

Nostalgia. Nostalgia is the poetic awareness of our personal past, and since the artist’s own past is the mainspring of his creative potential, the architect must listen and heed his nostalgic revelations.

Luis Barragán
1980 Laureate
Acceptance Speech

Tuesday 14 September 2010

Architecture and something else...

Residential-Workshop restoration and expansion project for an sculptor in Boceguillas (Segovia)

The project is based on the insertion of a piece to order and continuity to the exterior and interior space and differentiate areas of housing workshop. This piece is a wall, which contains all the necessary elements in a house (kitchen, bathrooms, closets ...) and a workshop (exhibition wall, storage ...) begins in the backyard limiting outdoor workshop and introduced drawing housing in different areas and varying its thickness and material depending on their use.