Barbieri House

Raul Diaz   Sophie Smyth    Moritz Ullmann

We are going to work with the Barbieri 30m² house in Madrid, from the architect Manuel Ocaña.  Beriberi 30m2 house is a small penthouse that was designed 18 years ago on a 200 year old site. For this project we have chosen Alzheimer's as our neurological illness, which is a degenerative mental and physical disease, to modify the house according to it.
In the following you can see our letter.

"Dear Manuel Ocaña,

We are a group of three student of the Universidad de Alicante, and we are doing a project with our professor Javier Sanchez Merina, working with buildings of  former professors of the UA. For our project we choose your house Barbieri 30m² in Madrid, because we really like your way of dealing with the small amout of space and the interior composition. We are going to work with your house during the whole semester, so it would be really nice if you could send us more information about it.  We already have found some ground plans and pictures on the internet,  but it would be great if you could send us more information. For example some technical details,  exterior pictures and elevations. If there is more information or special thoughts that come to your mind considering this project and its history, we would be really happy if you would share them with us.

Best regards and thank you in advance."

house__BARBIERI 30m² House

 

illness__ALZHEIMER

People.

VIdeo : Mouvement of peoples in the town (alicante)

Exercise 1B - Papa vient jouer chez moi

Nowadays people are tied to society, all days in a hurry without stopping to think what things are importants or no.
A person is growing with the experinces and wiht the pass of the time , if you want, you can learn a lot, you can learn from the others. An architect must learn from all, an architect must feel all experiences and later do what people need and adapt the spaces for each person, for be comfortable and relax. An space over a few hours can be used by different people for different things adapting to situations. Always remembering the time is so important.

ARCHITECTURE INTO NATURE

Exercise 1-B / Architect's Eyes

All architects have their own way to make architecture, and it depends on their experiences, inspirations, tastes... In the video we enter into an architect's eyes, while he is walking in the city.

To Learn architecture is a continuous process, in which you discover new things everyday and everywhere.

Final Video

Project 4 - Exercice 1A

Searching the past

When you leave home, your hobbies, your places, yours memories, is hard to come back to a confortable place that brings us those things we lose when we move from there. We can, as an architects, create a specific building that returns those feelings we left in the past and constructing the future.

(if don't work, press this link: https://vimeo.com/186025900 )

Idea based on the house "Villa Saint-Cast", by Dominique Perrault

AS NATURAL AS YOU WANT?

AS NATURAL AS YOU WANT? | RAÚL DÍAZ VALERA