Certainly these are poetic words to be heard. Architecture that hears them must work them, drain them into words so that they are not only light source of inspiration, but also the foundation of the work. It is like this. The architect’s panel in the Works Studio of the Open City emerges, in the observation act, after these poetic words. Go out to study by drawing, sketches and text, the lighting in the passage of night into day, there where dawn and aurora happens, which opens the day to the morning. Same thing happens at sunset; leave at the end of the day to observe the last rays that, in hiding themselves, colours the atmosphere, crossing the sunset’s half-light, those that take step in the night. Dawn and Twilight through observation were named as the “unequivocal”. They are the two moments in the day when it is precisely known if one is in them or not; it’s not like this in moments in the morning or at noon or at sunset, these are diffuse moments that have, so to speak, a thickness. The unequivocal is delimited location, net. This time it is the start. Already named the architectural words that base and orient, the architect who guides the Projects Studio, Alberto Cruz C., offers an architectural scheme to carry out the work, consisting with the layout of an enclosure that contains two patios of 12 x 12 meters, connected to a third, of a triangle floor-plan. Attached to this, and contiguous to an area for future rooms. All of this being a scheme to be worked in “panel”. It is decided to build with bricks fabricated on site. The objective was to experience the construction of the building starting with the fabrication of the material itself, with the aim of elaborating piece by piece each requirement. Together to it a chantier is eructed to inhabit it from the very start. Not only was an engineer consulted, but also the building was offered in the panel so that a precise structural solution was invented specifically for it. Having heard the foundation and having studied the architectural scheme –the unequivocal – he determines curved modules in plan: modules of 2x2 m, cemented, not on the argillaceous earth of the location, but isolated from it, floating on sand with light density mortar, as a way to compare the resistance between mortar and brick in a seismic estimate, and capable of resisting a 6 to 7 Richter scale seismic movement. The “machines” were built to construct the wall-modules units that form the enclosure of the two square patios and of the triangular patio. The floors are brick paved, following a layout whose generator is the diagonal of a square, and maintaining a 1% slope to guide rainwater into the channels according to the rainwater projects. The engineer was asked to provide dryness and no accumulation up of water. We are witness of the invention that Alberto Cruz founded and called “the panel”, that means to make space, to make room, to yield so that the intervention of several minds fits. And also, maintain the creative opening that has its foundation on the voice of the Architect, which is the total. This is to design and construct the alive and beating habitable space of correct density and form, accommodating the hospitality act. As we also witness the devotion of Alberto Cruz for the construction of space in its transit to form. Thus, there is no insignificant section, everything is built work. This is only possible in total dedication. Work made similarly as Antoni Gaudí, who took the camping bed to the site.
Planta Palacio del Alba y del Ocaso / Palace of dawn and twilight plan
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