{"id":26,"date":"2023-12-26T11:56:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T08:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.azab.es\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2023-12-26T11:56:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T08:56:28","slug":"thinking-about-the-domestic-issue","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.azab.es\/zoom\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking about the domestic issue."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
When we talk about the domestic issue within the architectural practice, immediately the housing topic comes up. Even though the practice itself implicitly implies in one way or another the definition of \u2018domesticity\u2019 in any architectural field, it seems that is in the house where it comes more palpable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The production of housing is highly standardized (the program, the dimensions, the constructive parameters). We commonly turn to to the argument of the obligation that derives from the regulations to justify the monochrome \u2018market\u2019. The banality and the uniform narrowness to which the housing project has been reduced seem almost impossible difficulties to overcome. And unless dealing with a cultivated private developer, promotions beyond the established script will be an exception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Working in two extreme cases has led us to reflect about which are the parameters that we consider indispensable in the construction of the \u2018house\u2019. Both are interventions in spaces that originally were not conceived neither built as a house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the case of the 100.60 apartment the space under the sloping roof has no visual contact with the street. It is the attic with no projected use when it was built in 1920.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the case of Loft Study House project the intervention transforms into public rent dwelling vacant ground floor commercial properties in non-central urban environments. An urban revitalization strategy where the standard project of dwelling block with a plinth for commercial use has failed. Contradicting the given solution that has served for decades as an unquestionable guarantor of urban growth with a continuous street section that relies on the retail ground floor as the standard answer for city extensions based in the compatibility of uses and the ease development with a low complexity index.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a result of the economic crisis of the last decade we look with another perspective at these vacant spaces that have not yet been occupied. They allow us to encourage revitalization in large urban areas replacing walled fronts that sadden our neighbourhoods (with a narrative of temporariness and failure) by inhabited fronts. These interventions open up new perspectives of use and occupation of the street, of the public space. Here the domestic issue contributes to consolidate the urban enviroment, the sense of belonging to the community and affirm the vitality of common spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n