Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos reflect on materiality, its morphology, scale or the horizontality of the environment, as well as analyzes the incidence of the presence or absence of its occupants.
Programmatically, the project is characterized by a unique roof and by the floor excavated in the ground where a large swimming pool is located.
"This is not a house"; the architects paraphrase Magritte's well-known aphorism, “ceci n'est pas une pipe”. Nothing is what it seems and at the same time, it is the reaffirmation of a typological image. The resulting project reviews the possibilities of inhabiting, a different family encounter, generating new spaces, and new visions for being and being.
Olivar pavilion by Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos. Photograph by Juan Solano.
Project description by Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos
"This is not a house"
This project reflects on the architectural affiliations and the extension or overflow of the typology of the house.
The reading of the pre-existence of a house by the Architect Emilio Soyer is done around the meeting of architectural affiliations, of possible dialogues. A valued enclosure is decoded and transferred in a new representation, as a dialogue and tension. These alternate readings through alternate programs allow us the appearance of architectural encounters.
The project inquires about the displacement of contingent programmatic encounters when living as a family within the structures of the typology.
Programs related to leisure, meeting or wandering move in search of a new shelter; under a cover that allows itself to be affected by the traces of the preceding architecture and at the same time, it defines its otherness.
The subsoil is excavated by inserting a diagonal in its outline, generating the descent that verticalizes the gaze, and bodily displacements that are inserted, activating an excavation in the old territory of the Olivos forest.
Olivar pavilion by Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos. Photograph by Juan Solano.
We are interested in architectural experiences from their materiality and outline, from the scale and horizontality of the environment to the possibility of being and not being at the same time.
Two actions: the coverage and the excavation, define this project, two drives of the discipline of architecture itself that build the inhabited place, that which remains outside "the house" but which sustains its awareness and confronts his every day.
Particularly in this project, we are interested in the programmatic displacements generated by various contingencies, by this living on the margin or displaced from our own environments. This is how the house moves and increases.
"This is not a house"; paraphrasing Magritte, to affirm the typology itself, but altering their own possibilities of inhabiting the most peripheral family gathering, generating new spaces to be distracted, to wander and contemplate the silence.
