Made with a structure and sheet of stainless steel lacquered in white, the Casa Antillón project gives the house a paper-like appearance, like an example of large-scale origami. It is when you surround it or fly over it, that these surfaces become fine abstract lines.
With a self-supporting structure made from a lattice of square profiles of white lacquered steel, the device reminds us of the archetypal primitive hut. Its distortion plays with the observer's perception, positioning him in different dimensions or realities simultaneously: physical space, virtual space, real or fictitious, etc.
Unfolding the house by Casa Antillón. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal.
Project description by Casa Antillón
This house is an artifact. Tilted, distorted, and unfolded, it seems to stem from that archetypal form that the cabin has always had. Here, the house serves a specific function: to host a videopodcast project for several months. A task that is solved through a broken plan, the house, which through its windows reveals the city behind it, Madrid. House and city, two scales that architecture confronts, have a modest relationship here.
And from one of those windows, in a play of reflective orientation, a curve breaks the form, creating a table and stretching the space. From another window, this time digital, clouds are drawn in the sky. One window is a circle, another a square, and a third is formed by their conjunction. Below, for mice, ants, or any cable, another tiny window makes its appearance.
Structurally, the house is a self-supporting plane created with a grid of 25x25mm square profiles of off-white lacquered steel, upon which rests a slightly floating 3mm thick sheet all around. This relationship between the structure and the bent sheet gives the house an appearance akin to paper. And when one circles around or flies over it—for the enjoyment of birds—these surfaces turn into thin abstract white lines.
