international competition for housing and public space in the historic center of Barcelona. CHB-UIA.96
uia Barcelona 96 Barcelona
May 1996
second prize (Prize of the Japan Institute of Architects)
memory
She lives and works there, in the last level. Share your yard with a partner who occupies the first two, something temporary, it seems. The little girl had health problems in their country of origin and his parents decided a change a kinder climate. I would have preferred to share with Julia and Mark because they have a patio overlooking the grove Drassanes and within the block, with more trees, I like trees. But I much prefer how well they cook Julia and Mark. However, they did not know them well into the course.
January seems a good time to start things and thought to devote some attention to her small body. Decided that his daily commute by bike to the center for classes was something rather symbolic and a January afternoon, back, left, as always in the cellar and without raising the apartment went to the gym, more driven by the demand of the semi-skimmed bodies that are seen among the trees, through the glass of the patio, which for a physical deficiency. I wanted to participate.
Julia met her first. She is very outgoing and giving confusing intimacy of a gym locker rooms started a conversation taking advantage of the coincidence of their shower gels. Humidity was sliding the topic to their lives and chores, and so knew that Mark is one of the architects who designed the housing complex where they now live. Matching of gels and matching tasks. She do not know if I have said, comes from far away to complete his studies in architecture in Barcelona.
So it was that one evening, at the start, Julia was invited to dinner at home. Winter still had too much power and had to dine inside, but could see before I ever had described Julia. The grove Drassanes was all hers. One of the intuitions of the architect was satisfied. Space had become inarticulate Ciutat Vella lost in a large room that can be incorporated into the house. Never interested him, he told that night, Haussmann interventions drawn from his time. A consolidated city such as Barcelona can afford to maintain the character of each of their areas, and the tissue structure is part of that character. It's business as usual, he said, understand the place.
The relationship did not see with the place, the "landscape", was on the front facade and bodies, which had to respond. He understood more, on the one hand, such as construction or maintenance of a sequence of gaps that have their presence only if there is full, and the way in how to define this "full" would be present in the form of housing as visual density that existed before was not compatible with the residential density behind him, on the other hand thought of Ciutat Vella like a body built, and like any relationship with the landscape is always a relationship with the outside, he had no choice to open the whole and each of the houses up, since it was in the same center, look to the sky and collect it all that the former homes not allowed.
The night could have given much of himself but it appears that of 69 Saint-Émilion, the preferred fuel ran ahead of schedule and stopped on the spot.
I also like. I met him through it ... Summer is coming and his fellowship ends. At the moment I can only accept what is there.
The poplar and linden trees in the yard this summer cleared the hollow of his apartment to appear again in winter, with another figure. Write long letters.
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