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The project is born to make the architecture more accessible both to professionals and to the citizens through a website that is going to be updated and extended. Contemporary works of greater general interest will be incorporated, always with a necessary historical perspective, while gradually adding works from our past, with the ambitious objective of understanding a greater documented period.
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2019-2024 Ramon Faura Carolina B. Garcia Francesc Rafat Antoni López Daufí Joan Falgueras Anton Pàmies Mercè Bosch Josep Ferrando Fernando Marzá Aureli Mora Omar OrnaqueExternal Collaborators:
2019-2024 Lluis Andreu Sergi Ballester Helena Cepeda Inès Martinel Maria Jesús QuinteroWith the support of:
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Coderch solves the gentle slope of the land by means of a difference in level on which the house straddles. Upstairs there is the entrance and parking, a group of two bedrooms and the master bedroom with its study. Downstairs there are two more bedrooms, the day rooms and the wing where the kitchen and service rooms are located. The bedrooms located to the north follow the recess arrangement and the staggered section. Each different use of the house has its own façade, clearly separated from the others by means of the extension of the walls. Facing northeast, the house seeks light through a transversal axis that goes from the parking lot to the living room, and which has as its main element an interior patio that allows the entrance of light. This patio becomes a central nucleus that organises all circulations, so that the life of the house revolves around its luminosity.
Behind the Serra de Collserola, Casa Luque is built on a plot that orients and descends on a gentle slope towards the northeast, in the direction of a golf course. The scheme is the same as that of Casa Catasús, returning to the T-shape, but with a much wider programme. Regarding the arrangement of the three functional wings, in this case the one arranged transversely is the service, so that the living room and the bedrooms are oriented in the same way, separating the rooms in the case of the bedrooms. The relationship area is placed as a pavilion attached to the rest of the house, highlighting the virtue of enjoying the landscape in a privileged way.
The entrance is made through the car park, facing a hall that finds a courtyard to its left that organises all the spaces, but that is deviated from the axis of circulation and nullifies the symmetry.
Spatial fullness is achieved in the room: in the two perpendicular directions marked, as cardinal tools, we find the landscape in front of us; to the right, the garden with the swimming pool; on the left, the porch, and behind us and as a counterpoint, the light that enters through the large patio. The change in elevation marked by the steps that accompany the longitudinal path of the patio contributes to the spatial independence of the living room.
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