2 PREFACE

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This book is about the Architecture Studioheld in 2004-2005 at Alicante University

by Arch. Javier Sanchez Merina P.D.

4 THE OBJECTIVES

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The course was held in English. And were to work on the adaptation of a house to a hypothetic patient of a neuro degenerative disease.

working in groups up to three people. trying to integrate spanish and foreign students from the Erasmus program.

at the end of the course all the process had to be resumed in a book.

6 READING THE STORIES OF HOUSES

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The first exercise was to read the storie of houses in the blog “http://storiesofhouses.blogspot.com.es”, choose three out of them and

make a short video explaining the reasons for the selection

Functionality, Aesthetics, MetaphorIntegration to nature

On the basis of these principles 3 dwellings came over the rest

The chosen projects are:

The Bordeaux house.REM KOLHAASBordeaux, France

Aktion PoliphileMARGRET HARDARDOTTIR & STEVE CHRISTERWiesbaden, Germany,

Stretto houseSTEVEN HOLLDallas, Texas

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REM KOLHAAS Bordeaux France

The building is located on a hill looking over the city of Bordeaux and the Garonne River, This Project varied due to a father’s disability. So the archi-tect created a private world in a house for him. Giving total movability to the handicapped by creating an elevating platform. The volumes play with solid mass and empty space, it is confined to create a platform, while the heavy volume seems to hover .Colored concrete, steel and glass are construction materials, openly exposed in a neat and sincere architectural solution. With panoramic views to the landscape, yet keeping the privacy of the family.

10 AKTION POLIPHILE

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MARGRET HARDARDOTTIR & STEVE CHRISTERWiesbaden, Germany,

This project was inspired in an allegory to a 15 century book ‘Hypnero-tomachia Poliphili’. The characters of the history transform to Saturn and Delia, two opposite entities that represent the complementarity. One is strong, ancient, while the other is young, delicate and nimble. From this metaphor the dwelling is created in two different buildings, one that is solid and dark, looking back to the tradition. In contraposition, the other is light and actual

12 STRETTO HOUSE

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STEVEN HOLL Dallas, Texas

In this project the landscape includes a river with 3 wa-terfalls that create a continuous ripple that recalls music, thus, the idea is to materialize the music into building. bass notes become solid masses that bed the service ar-eas, as the strings materializes into curved ceilings that link the spaces rhythmically. The building translates the landscape and its sounds into forms and spaces. Per-formed with local Texan building materials and tradition.

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THE HOUSE AKTION POLIPHILE

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first one consisted of information about urban planning and climate as well as including photographs of Wiesbaden. The second one con-sisted of a list of required rooms. They were essentially the same as the couple and their two children had in the old flat in Wiesbaden and which already included space for ac-commodating two or three guests. The family completed the program for the house with a third element of inspiration: the novel Hypnero-tomachaia Poliphili” written by the Italian monk Francesco Colonna in the 15th century. It deals with love and passion, aspects of life that Colonna was not allowed to think about as a monk. The main char-acter was the hero Poliphili, who wandered through the Harz forests where he met Delia, the chaste Ro-man goddess of youth, energy and health. Through his dreams, the novel became an allegorical tale about the struggle of love and the dark side of the human soul. With-out looking at our shadows, one cannot understand human reality.

“Escaping from the traffic noise of Wiesbaden, in Germany, the Koening family decided to fulfil their dream of living near the woods. In order to do so, they organized an interna-tional competition in 1989 between young architects. In the invitation, they made it clear that they did not look for “the world’s most beautiful house, nor a house for an astronaut, a politician, a painter or a sculptor, but a house for an ordinary citizen.” Through the architecture and de-sign gallery ZB in Frankfurt, the Koening family announced a com-petition by invitation. The selec-tion for the participating teams was made based on advice from fifteen prestigious architects, who counted among others; Rafael Moneo, Rob-ert Venturi, Tadao Ando, Alvin Bo-yarsky, Daniel Libeskind and Peter Cook. The competition was received with enthusiasm and forty-two archi-tects participated in total, originat-ing from fifteen different countries. Each participant received three doc-uments for the competition. The

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THE HOUSES OF DELIA AND SATURN

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Margrét Harðardóttir and Steve Christer, are the founders of Studio Granda in Reykjavík, they won the competition with a house where vic-es and virtues of every ordinary citi-zen were reflected. Their project interpreted Delia as the image of contemporary life - light and modern. They also decided to work on the presentation of the past - massive and primal. Although Saturn did not appear in the novel as a character, they introduced this god who, according to Roman my-thology, represents the dark side of the human mind. He symbolizes the idea that time creates and then oblit-erates its creation. Together, Delia and Saturn came, in that way, to constitute the symbols of life’s ambiguity in the project,.Based on these propositions, the project was divided into two houses: the delicate ‘House of Delia’ which became the family dwelling and, one much smaller in scale but heavier, the ‘House of Saturn’, the guest ac-commodation, which was built in stone.

When entering from the street, the red sandstone of the ‘House of Sat-urn’ put s a shadow on the visitor. After walking underneath the cor-ner of Saturn, the wall is replaced by unexpected twisted and knotted topiary trees. Delia is a very light and lively build-ing, with its exterior constructed with a play of cedar sticks varying in thickness, twisting and turning gen-tly. Their density on the north side reminds us of Poliphile roaming in the German forests. It is like a tes-timony of the confusing world and the agony through which his mind went. The novel “was a magical de-vice for manipulating a straightfor-ward brief on an extremely diffi-cult site”, explains Studio Granda. Although the main concern of the family Koening was to meet all the practical considerations, the archi-tects also engaged them in a lyrical play through the characters of De-lia and Saturn. In this way, from the consideration of the dual nature of the human being, they built a house that could well be for any of us.”

18 HYPNEROTOMACHIA POLIPHILI

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The DREAM OF POLIPHILE that scientists named the HYPNERO-TOMACHIA POLIPHILI is a text published in Venice in 1499 by the ALDE MANUCCE printer. It is a text written in a curious Tuscan language enameled with Greek, Hebrew and Latin words, accom-panied by illustrations engraved according to drawings attribut-ed to the architect ALBERTI and the painter MANTEGNA. In 1546 this book was the subject of an il-lustrated edition of 169 woodcuts due to the sculptor Jean Goujon This book quickly became the Bible of all esoteric of the time. It is divid-ed into two parts. The first tells the dream quest of POLIPHILE, hero and narrator, who looks for his well-loved POLIA, and then finds her in a setting of ruins, ancient architec-tures and gardens, This course can be read as free re-plenishment of the stages of the mysteries of love that Diotima was referring in the Banquet, from the awakening to the love life of Poli-

phile, the hero, until the final un-veiling of Venus in its fountain of Kythera The second book will toggle speeches of Polia and Poliphile, featuring parallely the allegori-cal journey of book I and the evo-cation of the thwarted love of the hero in the Treviso’s Quattrocento In book I, long descriptive passages details the structure of the gardens, the costumes of the protagonists, the decorations of the Palace, draw-ing up the decoration of an ideal an-tiquity, dreamlike reference of truth and beauty, which will be used for centuries in the constitution of ar-chitectural spaces as in the decora-tion of gardens Historically the DREAM OF PO-LIPHILE seems to be the common work of a group of thinkers and theologians gathered around the Popes Nicholas V and Pius II PIC-COLOMINI in the 1450s, at the time of the capture of Constanti-

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nople by the Turks. Then learned Greeks took refuge in Chris-tian land, in Florence as in the Vatican to try to perform a reconciliation of the Cath-olic and Or-thodox doc-trines. The two pontiffs, Nicolas V and Pius II cared the project to establish a universal syncretic religion whose rituals go back to Egypt to celebrate the universal power of life such as love, engines of the Earth. These two popes had appointed art-ists and writers of their entourage to set in narrative form the bulk of millenary education to come give a meaning to life, and hope for the generations to come. This work would have be condensed in the manuscript of the HYPNETORO-MACHIA POLIPHILI traditionally attributed to Francesco COLON-NA, to which ALBERTI would be

the driving force behind, and no doubt the author of illus-

trations of the Alde M A N U C C I O

e d i t i o n . The dream of POLI-PHILE is a funda-

mental and d a n g e r o u s

book since it is the summary and

synthesis of all religious doctrines and esoteric respect at the origin of life as its goal. These doctrines are arranged to form a narrative that is a journey through inspired places, all theatres of a cere-mony illustrating one of the myster-ies of existence.

This love story hides in its sim-plicity the secrets of the world and the cosmology; it reports that the alchemical alliance of the funda-mental elements is prior work in any incarnation as to any initiation.

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As this story takes place outside any priestly hierarchy and had no preachy aspect that can blame the insider, this speech was a real danger for ecclesiastical structures wishing to assert their authority not through love or truth but rather by fear and richness. Moreover since the publication of the POLIPHILE sponsors became immediately suspicious to be propo-nents of a spiritual power in search of temporal power. History of the POLIPHILE is such exemplary camouflage of an essential truth un-der an esoteric packaging intended to remove all credibility as any im-pact on an unsuspecting public that will stop or will be stopped by the allegorical form of this story load-ed with citations in bad Latin, in an approximate Greek, overflowing descriptions increasing action or di-verting attention...

All this was intended to cover with a complex and complicated veil a truth held in a verse of Vir-

gil “OMNIA VINCIT AMOR” or even the last verse of the Com-media “AMOR CHE MOVE IL SOLE E LE ALTRE STELLE. ». The quest or the story of POLI-PHILE is roughly as follows, the hieroglyphic novel which, at first reading will appear as a monstrous esoteric brick, where the esoteric accumulates and where symbolism disappears beneath the abundance of occult material as descriptions. At the beginning of the novel, PO-LIPHILE struggles in the maze of a forest of branches barring sandy paths where wild beasts growl. PO-LIPHILE mourns the abandonment of his lover POLIA, the Wisdom, and ends up falling asleep at the end of a night fevered by the grief of the loss of the beloved, POLIA, the DIVINE light. At dawn, the hapless sleeper dreams. He is led in a dream in a si-lent plain in the blooming meadows. There, in the middle of the prairie, stands a pyramid temple placed on 1410 steps. The Temple is topped by

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an obelisk on which a statue of for-tune is turning into all the winds. After having climbed the 1410 de-grees, POLIPHILE will enter the temple of FORTUNE where he will hold the head of Medusa, prelude to the teaching of Athena: this logical teaching represents the masculine initiation or Dorian. Then POLI-PHILE will descend into the lower sanctuary guarded by a dragon, the guardian of the threshold, as of the waters of life in a place dedicated to the appearance of life on Earth. Fleeing the dragon POLIPHILE will find a door. This door opens on a room dedicated to Venus and her son Eros. There two al-legorical mosaics make up the paving of two successive rooms. In the first room, called the antrum is the allegory of the “sea world” that represents the first man that popped up from the sea; He heads to the shore while a flame burned on an al-tar at the water’s edge. Indented on a column, a mirror reflects the Sun

whose rays are both going to light a flame and get lost in the sea. It is the evocation of the marine origin of life: the spark lit by the fire of the Sun creates a living cell fertilizing the sea. Popping up fish, algae, crusta-ceans, first appearances of the living. The next cave is called the Aula Ab-scondita, or hidden room. Its floor is covered with a mosaic depicting the animals of the Nile. The scene takes over the narrative of the sec-ond book of Ovid’s Metamorpho-ses: all the animals of the world sur-round Orpheus singing the mystery of the creation; while priests wear a chandelier to turn it off in the Nile to renew the union of fire and wa-ter, which is at the origin of life. After having meditated in these deep places POLIPHILE finally finds at the bottom a maze of caves and un-derground corridors “a small shiny splendor through one narrow bay”. Rushing to the light he found an opening that allows him to get out of the pyramid.

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Poliphile carries in his race the se-cret of the appearance of life and the memory of his struggle with the guardian of the threshold. Then POLIPHILE engages in a path leading to an enchanting orchard at the thresh-old of which con-tained the motto SEMPER FES-TINA TARDE (always make haste slowly).

At the entrance of the orchard is asleep a nymph that a satyr reveals, illus-trating again the mystery of life. POLIPHILE meets then five nymphs, personification of the five senses. They ask him what he is seeking before he faces the motto ‘ know yourself ‘. Then they immerse POLIPHILE in a bath where a child naked and smiling splatters him with liquid from his sex, whitewater

symbolizing the rebirth of the spirit. It is when nymphs now lead POLI-PHILE towards the Palace of their Queen, ELEUTHERILIDE, and Queen of free will. In his palace

Queen Eleutherilide makes POLIPHILE enter the

room of the stars where planets are

represented and the 360 degrees of the Zodi-ac by which

souls choose their destiny be-

fore reincarnate.

Here POLIPHILE finds him-self before the symbolism of succes-sive incarnations, what is symbolized by the walk performed by POLI-PHILE in gardens where varied cli-mates reign, sometimes borrowing Venusian sweetness, or Martian vio-lence, and where events occur illus-trating the symbolism of the stars. Meanwhile POLIA, the beloved of POLIPHILE languishes in a convent

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under the tutelage of Diane. POLIA should accept her desire, and decide to live her love before leaving the chaste DIANEs prison to find POLI-PHILE in a beautiful garden at the island of Kythira,

The two lovers have found that beautiful love “CHI MOVE IL SOLE E LE ALTRE STELLE”, source of life, fountain of youth. Each of its symbols must be med-itated, and is facing a beautiful novel of love, of absences and re-union, evocation of the link be-tween love and death, destruction and generation, loss and renewal. POLILPHILE during his quest learns that he must go down to the bottom of him even to find his uni-ty and his roots. That in itself is ev-erything. That he is free to build his destiny, because love alone should guide him towards an incarnation of which he has the keys and the choice. POLIPHILE returned to ancient

polytheism. He re-discover the cre-ative energies of universal harmony. In this pagan speech POLIPHILE restores the mysteries and initiation. He does not appeal more to Reve-lation but to Intuition that passes through the senses to vitalize the Emotion.

It is with their body and their soul that POLIPHILE and POLIA will go in the island of Venus building the ideal city that is not the city of God, but the city of the happiness of men. The book was published in Venice. But in 1546 Francis I had printed the French translation of the dream de POLIPHILE. And all the princ-es acquired it. After reading it they placed in their gardens esoteric fac-tories and caves.

The figures in these gardens trans-mit the message of the dream that his readers could not reveal: the ini-tiation path has no validity if emo-tion does not come along the reason.

26 ORIGINAL HOUSE DRAWINGS

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Here I want to thank the enor-

mous help of the Architect

Steve Christer from Studio

Granda Who took some time

off his agenda to send us the

original drawings of the house.

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30 PHOTOMONTAGESS

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CHANGES

from the 90’s to the 21st century

in the last decades several changes that affect our way of living have took place.

TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES: changed our everiday way of life and usual objects. From analogic to electronic and now nanoelectronics. internet and its gadgets at hand. one Iphone its a telephone, an entire li-brary, a camera, a global map, a remote control, a recorder, a television, and even an entire office ..... and much more..

SOCIAL CHANGES: The fall of the Berlin wall and Europe’s union are just two of the most important social changes in Europe.

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The house that was once “for an ordinary citizen”, will now become the house for a person with a neurodegenerative disorder

The Koening Family: (Parents with two children) have lived in the Aktion Poliphile House since 1992, last year the mother was diagnosed with Par-kinson’s disease, aged 65. The Family have decided to make changes to their house, they know the disorder is progressive and their desire is to prevent the disease from getting worse.

They have contacted an architectural firm to make important and relevant

NEW STORY OF THE FAMILY

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adaptations to the house. Instead of contacting the previous architects (Studio Granda) they have decided to make contact with an architec-tural practice that has specialized in designing adaptations to houses for people with Neurodegenerative dis-orders.

The Family has put importance on using the concept of house of Delia (health, youth, and well-being) in the design of the adaptation, which is most relevant now more than ever.

Now the family want to focus on the fact that even when the body is gradually affected, the mind will stay clear, and to give mother the means to keep her intellectually active and in control of the house’s appliances.

The Family believe it was a good de-cision to move from the inner city to the rural outskirts of Wiesbaden to avoid the stress of the city.

Re-writing a Story

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Parkinson’s disease

is a progressive neurological condi-tion.

People with Parkinson’s don’t have enough of a chemical called dopa-mine because some nerve cells in their brain have died.

Without dopamine, people can find that their movements become slow-er so it takes longer to do things.

There’s currently no cure for Parkin-son’s and we don’t know why people get the condition yet.

The loss of nerve cells in the brain causes the symptoms of Parkinson’s to appear.

Parkinson’s does not directly cause people to die, but symptoms do get worse over time.

Tremors: Slow and rhythmic. Pre-dominate while at rest and reduce to a voluntary movement. Not all pa-tients have them.

Stiff muscles: resistance to move ex-tremities, muscle hypertonia.

Bradykinesia: Slowness of voluntary and automatic movements.

Lack of facial expression. Slow writ-ing and small (micrograph).

Manipulative clumsiness.

Postural abnormalities: inclination of the trunk and the head forward. Elbows and knees are as cramped.

Walking abnormalities: idle, shuf-fling. Sometimes quick steps and short (accelerating), are difficult to stop. Episodes of lock (toes look like they are stuck to the ground).

Balance disorder: altered reflexes, easy to fall.

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STAGES OF THE DISEASE

Hohen and Yhar established 5 levels (“stage”) classics of progression of Par-kinson’s disease.

It should be emphasized again that not all patients who suffer from it won’t evolve until the last few levels:

Stage 1: mild symptoms affect only one half of the body.

Stage 2: Already bilateral symptoms, without the balance disorder.

Stage 3: Postural instability, noticeable symptoms, but the patient is physi-cally independent.

Stage 4: serious inability, although the patient can still get to walk or stand without help.

Stage 5: Need help for everything. He spends time sitting or in bed.

Only 15 percent of the people affected by Parkinson’s comes to suffer a degree of motor impairment so severe that you need help constant to do anything, depend on others and stay most of the time in a Chair or in bed, unable to move at all by yourself

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MICROARCHITECTURE

The aim was to create a micro architecture that reflects the effects of the dis-ease, while maintaining a connection with the project of the chosen House.

Decided to perform in wood, in allusion to the wooden slats that line the House and as an allegory to the forest that Poliphile wandered in his dream. In addition, the use of rudimentary technology, with simple as rope and pulley mechanisms. Also Woodwork was adapted to avoid the use of metal items, such as nails, screws, hinges, etc. The result is a minimum wearable machine, which can only fit one person who will experience the effects caused by the disease over several years just in a few steps walk.

At the beginning the walk is normal..Immediately the cane that is linked to the forearm starts to go up and down quickly, simulating the trembling in the pulse, which hinders the management of objects.

Rope 1 ranging from front wheels to the back of the machine winds slowly causing back to fold gradually, up to make the user to adopt the typical in-clined position of the patient of Parkinson’s in its final stages.

Rope 2 is wound slowly and will pull the catch that will gradually restrict-ing the length of the step to make it shorter (festination), and finally impos-sible (paralysis), such as in disease.

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Model

Sketches

Real scale model

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Technical drawings

In use

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TWO POINTS OF VIEW,

Every subject has different ways to appreciate or valorate it. And in consecuence, two or more ways to react to it.

After thinking over the implications and effects of the disease, we came to the conclusion that the disease has a positive sides, comparing to other possible diseases:

The patient retains intellectual abilities. Except in the very last stages and in a very small percentage of those affect-ed. It means that patient keeps his memory and cognitive abilities, and that allows you to continue to learn and enjoy intellectually. Is only the body that is gradually affected, and for that there are multiple technical aids.

“we dont have a soul. WE ARE A SOUL with a body”

Having it nowNowadays although Parkinson’s disease has no cure, it is better controlled and there are better drugs, therapies and technology to alleviate symptoms

Is not lethalDespite of beeing a neurodegenerative disease Parkinson’s is not lethal.only a very small percentage of the patients suffer the worse effects.

POSITIVE SIDE.

44 ARCHITECTONIC SITUATIONS

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The exercise of the architectural situations had, like everything else, its complications. We did not understand that

what was intended. As simple as giving architectural graphic expression to a daily situation of the inhabitants of

the House. Visually capture the everyday things. How long is a step? Is it comfortable for all the same seats? How

do you shower? Those things should define the way in which you inhabit a space and how it is molded.

in attempts to solve the riddle we work with the mobility of people with Parkinson’s, which is the most obvious

sign of their illness. But failed to justify the approach, or how we would solve the problem, which is the cosequent

part of the exercise.

we talk about some finds in the therapy of Parkinson’s, such as walking while bouncing a ball, or that tremor di-

minishes if a conscious activity is taking place. And hence we derive the multifunctionality, do two things at once.

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WII-HABILITATION

A medical team from North Ameri-ca said that with the help of the Wii could improve symptoms and re-duce medication for Parkinson pa-tients.

The most commonly used drugs to treat Parkinson’s disease cause sever-al adverse effects and its administra-tion is essential once the treatment is started, otherwise symptoms worsen and with them the quality of life of the patient.

The Wii allows patients to work in an environment that is safe, fun and motivational.

Participants showed significant im-provements in rigidity, movement, motor ability of precision and ener-gy levels. Perhaps the most impres-sive thing was that patients reduced their depression level to zero.

Results are being so satisfactory that it already begins to be used as part of the rehabilitation and called ‘ Wii hab ‘ therapy.

Games require visual perception and coordination between hands and eyes, so it is a great tool from a therapeutic perspective. Games like ‘Wii Sports’ or the table ‘ Wii fit’ are very beneficial for these patients. ,

Games that encourage exercise, promote socialization and increase self-esteem among those affected by Parkinson’s. Fun while exercis-ing your body is another thing that stands out, since games allow you to have a good time with your family while exercise. “Wii age” (calculation that makes console according to the daily exer-cises) has fallen from 71 to 41. “

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the concept of thera-py, like many things have change in the last few years, from the cold and boring thera-py rooms , to wich you have to make the effort to go, to the new tech-nology apps for exercise at home having fun.

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therapy

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OPORTUNITY

When someone is diagnosed Par-kinson, the first recommendation of psychotherapists is to keep active lifestyle

Physical exercise is very important for these patients since the muscles and joints tend to become stiff and numb.

So let’s join the excersice, fun, and rest !!!.

PROPOSALS

1. Take advantage of this new tool and provide adequate space for Wii-exercise for the patient.

2. Adapt the tours of the House to be more fluid, avoiding the corner turns and narrow doorways.

3. Bring Bedroom down to the main floor, in anticipation of an advance of disease and age, preventing the patient from long stairs, Keeping the access to social areas of the House and not confining him/her to a room upstairs.In case of emergency can be evacu-ated more quickly by not having to descend stairs.

4. Give this room its own terrace where the patient can leave to soak up the Sun and take care of a garden or orchard, Occupational therapy that would give the patient opportunity to go outside and enjoy the view of the forest without being exhausted

5. Create a new independent dwell-ing for an hypothetical caregiver,

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Alambric view of the 3D modeling of the Aktion Poliphile house. based on photos of the hand drawings, sent by Arch, Steve Christer of Studio Granda.

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Longitudinal section of the new adition to the house. Now the Patient can use all the main areas of the house located at the same level. But in order to force him/her to do some leg ex-cercise have placed a 3 step stair to reach the bathroom and main floor ,as well as a ramp so its also wheel chair adapted. the bed and seatings like chair, bidet and toilet are elevated to 75 cm so are easier to use for a person with muscular stiffness.. Caretaker lives just underneath.

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56WEST ELEVATION

NORTH ELEVATION

SOUTH ELEVATION

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BASEMENT PLAN. A MINIMAL EXCAVATION IS NEEDED TO EXTEND THE BUIL-DING AND CRATE THE NEEDED SPACES. CARETAKER HAS TOTAL ACCESIBILITY AND YET PRIVACY HAVING HIS/HER ROOM WITH INDEPENDENT ENTRY.THE REST OF THE EXISTING SPACES WILL NOT BE AFFECTED

58MAIN FLOOR PLAN. The curve that crates the space is generated with the same axis than the one in the saturns house, givins a design integration, also the use of the same materias help to integrate the new buiding. the bedroom has space enough to perform the wii -hab and other excersices. the bathroom and dressing room are at the same level than tha main floor, but the bedrooom is 45 cm. under. and conected wit a 3 step stair and a ramp with a 10 % slope. garden/orchard is at the same level than bedroom.. the original buiding has a 1 m. wide entry and a hallway of 80 cm. I plant to make it 1.20 and 1.0 m. to avoid narrowness freezing, and round the pantry’s corner to smooth the turn

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Teamwork has been very nice, Linda Findeiss and Alejandro Abreu, my two companions have been all very participative and collaborating.

Thanks also to the constant use of the telephone, the wassaps and the Face-book we were constantly in touch

Having the point of view of two students from different universities has helped to have intense and interesting conversations and discussions about the project and its process of study.

Each part of the process was widely commented on and the contribution of ideas was constant from all of us. some worked, some were just loose thougghts.. but all of them were heard and considered.

common effort for a common goal. the team work was possibly the best part of all. From here I want to thank their willingness and positive attitude..

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Projects 4 is the intermediate point of architectural studios, little by little the necessary skills are more refined... Should update knowl-edge, learn new tools, computer programs, understand and appre-ciate a new point of view on design, a new methodology. at the end that there is not only a point of view on a subject in par-ticular, Even the worst situation can become an opportunity to (life, design, learning) and that is enormously valuable.Is innovation or extravagance needed to demonstrate that one is creative? I don’t think so, but even then, it is good to realize that things change and that there are new solutions and creative pro-posals for old problems, before shortsighted approached purely from the constructive point of view.Healing is not only hospital matter, as well as resting is not con-strained to the rooms. Currently functions blend, share spaces, integrate others. The spaces dedicated to only one function are al-most disappeared.Thanks to this course I got to know interesting residential house projects, having the chance to study them carefully and think on their cultural cir-cumstances.Get to know and to understand the effects of a neurodegenerative disease and understand disease under an optimistic point of viewMeeting students from other parts and share experiences practicing En-glish Learn to make printed publications, video and to use new up to date means to communicate with team members

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Servicio de neurología. Hospital de san pau, Barcelona

Ed. Novartis

Guía informativa de la enfermedad de Parkinson

Dra. Beatriz de la casa fages

Servicio de neurología, hospital g, u Gregorio Marañón, Madrid

Federación española de Parkinson

Guía oficial de práctica clínica en la enfermedad de Parkinson

Sociedad española de neurología, 2010

And thanks to the Alicante’s Parkinson’s Disease Asociation for their kind help,

support and advice.

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This volume of Verb marks the beginning of a cycle, once addressed the innovations in the

world of architecture provided by the new technological environment (new processes of

production, its impact on the material properties of the project, the connection between

the programs and the users, the conditioning of spaces and behaviors, to the project rela-

tion with the environment) came to the conclusion of a positive and optimistic research that

brings a new world of possibilities. Today, the evidence of the parallel existence of opposite

effects of this transformation (overset growth of urban agglomerations, economic and social

inequalities, rapid transformation of the environment) leads us to a situation of crisis, a dou-

ble crisis, both of our built environment as for the definition of the discipline, how can we

respond to these problems and their consequences? How to redefine the practice of archi-

tecture to give it responsiveness? Once recognized the limits as possible, we have to work on

the reality that we have produced.

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