Casa Never Never Land / Autism

Team:

   - Patrizia Lake
   - Maria Barczentewicz
   - María Verdú

House: Casa Never Never Land / Andrés Jaque

Neurological Disorder: Autism


E-mail to the architect: 

Dear Mr. Jaque,

We are architecture Erasmus students of the Univerity of Alicante and we are joining the course Projects 4. This semester, we were asked to work with a house and we have chosen “Casa en Never Never Land”, and we have to make a research about the construction. So we would like to know if you can send us some plans, sections as AutoCAD or Revit files and technical information. It would make our work much easier.

Thank you in advance,

Patrizia Lake, Maria Barczentewicz, María Verdú

E-mail to the association: 

Buenos días,

Somos estudiantes de Erasmus en la Universidad de Alicante y estamos realizando un proyecto de adaptación de la arquitectura para personas con Autismo.

Queremos aprender más sobre este tema y así poder descubrir cómo ven realmente el mundo, para conocer mejor sus necesidades. Por esta razón nos gustaría visitar su centro y realizar algunas preguntas sobre las instalaciones y el trato a las personas; así como tener la oportunidad de hablar con sus empleados y pacientes si fuera posible, para aprender un poco más y conseguir crear el espacio perfecto.

Toda la información que nos puedan dar será de gran ayuda para nuestro trabajo.

Gracias, esperamos respuesta pronto

Patrizia Lake, Maria Barczentewicz, María Verdú

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Good morning,

We are Erasmus students at the University of Alicante and we are making a project about adaptation of the architecture for people with Autism.

We want to understand much better this subject, in order to discover the world of autistic people and know their needs. For this reason we would like to visit your center and ask you some questions about the installations and the treatment to the people; talk to employees and patients about what makes them so special, and learn something from them. We want to understand how they see the world and design a perfect space for them.

All this information will help us with our project

Thank you, we look forward to hearing from you

Patrizia Lake, Maria Barczentewicz, María Verdú

Casa Never Never Land

Environmental project that aims to preserve the beauty and biodiversity of the valley, creating economic security and dream-like scenarios. The building is located in a sloping terrain, in the valley of the Cala Vadella. The slope of the plot allows that each part of the house has different views of the sea without interference between.

Design decisions to exploit the potential of the site to provide desirable conditions of habitability:

• Raise the interiors to the level that can ensure the distant views
• Give the interiors of a large transparent glass enclosure to allow the contribution of light on one side and on the other access to views of a landscape illuminated. Opening windows throughout the interior is a porch. Closing is a salon.
• Paint interior elements of blue intended to soften the visual transition between the built elements and the sky.
• The different buildings are connected by a network of stairs and ramps of different layout

The proposal imposes the need to preserve the natural support of the valley through a series of tactical decisions:

• Minimize the cutting or removal of trees and shrubs of the plot.
• Raise over 80% of the mass built on pillars thus avoiding any kind of land transformation.
• Grouping all the facilities in a concrete chamber

The built complex is divided into three elements: main house, cabin 1 and cabin 2. 

Autism

 

Autism is neurological disorder which has a lot of various faces. From this which you can't notice if you don't have real contact to autistic person to person which huge communication and body movement problems.

In this video we wanted to focus on the way they experience world. Especially at their senses of hearing and sight. Autistic people have problem with focusing on one sound and isolating it from others. They hear everything louder and have unstoppable racket in their heads. When they are in a crowded noisy space they get tired very quickly. When they are stressed they may have blurred picture of a world, some of them see double image.

Their world is made from details, they focus on them often missing bigger view.

Because of their sensitiveness they may have headache when they see sudden very bright light, or hear a lot of sounds in one moment.