Mi casa, tu casa (the antidemocratic house)

architecture19th Jun 20183rd Jul 2018

“A line that delimits nothing, that describes no contour, that no longer goes from one point to another but instead passes between points, that is always declining the horizontal and the vertical and deviating from the diagonal, that is constantly changing direction, a mutant line of this kind that is without outside or inside, form or background, beginning or end and that is alive as a continuous variation. Such a line is truly an abstract line and describes a smooth space.” A thousand Plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari.

This conceptual project is a collaboration with textile artist Patricia Mascarell. The aim was to explore the limits of the abstract and physical lines that define flexibility in architecture. In an utopian case in which flexibility of programme and materials is infinite, how do we establish the forms and uses that satisfy us? Should design follow democratic ideals? Or maybe, democracy is not necessary anymore when we can agree, and that is the whole point when designing our homes?

Who needs democracy when we can agree?

From another point of view, how can we approximate architectural lines to the concepts of abstract lines?

 

Roles: Concept, Design, Drawings, Sketches, Illustrations, Model making, Graphic Design, Installation.

Team: Patricia Mascarell and Daniel Vera.

Flexible intimacy

architecture14th Oct 201727th Jun 2018

“What my boyfriend does when I’m not at home?” is the title of this project, which combine interior design and textile art to analyse the concept of intimacy in architecture in order to blur its lines and make real flexibility possible. We created a new system of curtains that move in a new direction (perpendicular to the window) to produce fractions of spaces, each one with a variable level of intimacy associated.

 

 

Future-Present-Past

film17th Mar 201727th Jun 2018

This is a short experiment made to express subtly how crucial the particulars are in each life decision that is taken. Composed by three shortfilms, it analyses these circumstances in a timeline: past, present and future. The result is an abstract work in different levels, with no defined conclusion.

Future:

Present:

Past:

Team: Patricia Mascarell and Daniel Vera.