House for a Photographer IIArchitect Carlos Ferrater O.A.B

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House for a Photographer IIAuthor: Carlos Ferrater , O.A.BYears: 2003-2006Site: Tarragona SpainBibliography: THAIS KAUFFMANN RUSSO - Final Master Thesis CARLOS FERRATER & Partners. 2010. Editorial Actar ISBN: 978.84.92861. p. 232-245; CARLOS FERRATER. OPERE E PROGETTI. 2007. Editorial Electa. ISBN: 978-88-370-5354-3. p. 82-91; CARLOS FERRATER. OAB. 2006. Editorial Manel Padura. 978-84-934525-6-8. p. 470-485; VIVIENDA HOUSING. Nº4. 2006. Editorial Manel Padura. p. 136-156; 2G. CARLOS FERRATER. Nº32. 2004. Editorial Gustavo Gili. Website: http://wp.ferrater.com/?oab_proyecto=casa-alcanar http://www.archdaily.com/445504/house-2-for-a-photographer-oab/ Carlos Ferrater Carlos Ferrater Lambarri (Barcelona, November 22, 1944) is a Spanish architect. Since 1971 he is working in his professional studio in Barcelona. In 2006 constitutes society Office of Architecture in Barcelona SL (OAB) with Xavier Martí, Lucía Ferrater and Borja Ferrater. He obtained a degree in architecture from the School of Architecture of Barcelona in January 1971 and a doctorate in April 1987 with the singular thesis work: continuous process. Since 1971 he is working in his professional studio in Barcelona

Jose Manuel Fotografo José Manuel Ferrater was born in 1948 in Barcelona. In 1968 he started in the world of photography enrolling at the Eina school in Barcelona. Her first published pictures appeared in the magazine Triunfo. They captured a double accident in the Formula 1 circuit of Montjuic. These photos, made while replacing one of his teachers Eina, Xavier Miserachs; José Manuel never did sign.

CASA ESTUDIO PARA UN FOTOGRAFO II - “House for a photographer 2”

The inspiration for the project was created by a Picasso painting. This painting, entitled "Briquerie to Tortoise", is located in the Picasso Museum in Paris. Picasso painted it in the Delta region, which portrays the intense light of that region.

The house for a photographer 2 was built in 2006 in the village Les Cases d'Alcanar, a municipality of Tarragona region of Montsia. The house is located four kilometers north of the town of Alcanar, in the Ebro Delta. The village has an area covering 320 square kilometers, where 20% of the area are natural areas, 75% is arable and the remainder urban area. They are living 50,000 inhabitants in the municipality .

• Carlos Ferrater has created a series of prefabricated white concrete blocks the size of a brick and handmade texture. Combined can configure any type of wall. The Ferrater Brick is a prefabricated white concrete piece. The system of brick making Ferrater involves two processes - Vibration and pressing - that interact to achieve high compaction, plus a selection of components - white cement, various marble aggregates and water repellent - bringing an elegant texture is achieved and uniform.

• The house is located west of the plot, on the far side of the sea. The plot, perpendicular to the sea, borders and other areas of similar surface geometry but with cottages that their land allocated to agriculture.

• Blocks A and B are linked by a primarily visual continuity. Can leaks that intensify the relationship. From the outside, looking at the window of the block A, we see a succession of windows that are decreasing in size. This increases the notion of depth and leads the eye to the lemon tree located at the bottom of the plot. In the same way, but in reverse, from the lemon, we observe the succession of windows this time increase in size and that guide our gaze towards the sea. The vision is closing towards the bottom of the field is inversely which is opening to the sea. The block C does not have this transparency. Its windows are located perpendicularly and also has a concrete lattice filters the light south.

• The white color is what has greater sensitivity to light. By observing a white building our gaze focuses on the way that makes us more visible through its contrasts. They perceive more clearly the angles and sides. The natural light enhances the perception; Volumes with sunlight change of tone throughout the day. This adds to building a flexible, changing and continuous character and emotion that is never the same. The different targets of other colors depending on their context, always maintains its integrity.

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• Among orchards and fruit, 51 Washingtonia palms lead us from the sea to

the house. It is accessible from the beach, an automatic door is through. After entering a collected of 213 meters is done to the platform of the house. Once there you can access any of the blocks that compose it.

• The three blocks that make up the housing program are divided into:

Block A: living room and kitchen. Block B: room. Block C: painting studio. A fourth volume, Block D, which corresponds to an old restored building. It is used for storage on the ground floor and first floor as a bedroom. Blocks do not have internal communication between them.

• • Carlos Ferrater: "This space became the spatial support

of the intervention, remembering the old farmhouses and buildings of the Southern Mediterranean '.

• The central square is the heart of the project is the

generator room of the house. Through this anywhere access to any of the rooms it is possible. Looking at, we see that by extending the lines P1, P2 and P3 a right triangle is generated; I believe this squarely parts B and

• The house is developed from the implementation of a platform which prevents the house to be affected in case of flooding - on which the three fragmented and independent bodies that make up the housing program are located. The platform narrows an area within another and thus intensifies the relationship between the parts. The plot has a size of 250 meters long by 18 meters wide. In this ratio as an opaque body linear block all visual and add weight to the composition.

• Body A

Body B

• Body C

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• Body C