The Vacant Room

2007

A gradation in the existing urban-natural is established. Starting from a Grade 0, which implies a soft intervention by redirecting the natural dynamics, and up to a Grade 4, meaning pure architectural performance. The four elements: water, air, earth and light, manage to build a system mixing nature and architecture. This urban-natural construction interacts with the different environmental dynamics leading to the mutual reinforcement of architecture and nature. The purpose is to build urban and intimate space as a sequence of perception, made out of a variety of what we call "rooms", charge with sensations and regarding to the scale of the human body.

2008-2010

The municipality was asking a sequence of small urban spaces, linked to nature, in an innovative way, and also a kind of housing related to small green spaces, so the matrix that was implemented by the project was fitting exactly these questions. The urban study commissioned by the city following the competition, began with the asking for an increase of the density, so the process about testing the system in a higher density has brought interesting conclusions, and different urban and collective spaces situations in a very positive way. The system shows how to transform gradually and naturally different density areas, very important for the quality of the created urban space.