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Moliner museum.

This is one of the best houses, i wouldn’t like to live in!
Great anyway!!!

even the handrails :)

Very inspiring concept, but what about posting some pictures of the lower floor («the cave»)?

Maybe it’s just me, but this doesn’t strike me as a poet’s house. Doesn’t a poet want to be immersed in the culture in which he or she finds themselves? Why the walls? Why the obtrusive design? Why removing the work space as far as possible? When did poets become magistrates who need removal from the tired huddled masses?

Also, cut the poetic transcript, let the building be its own poetry.

All that aside, I rather like it. Clean, and while of course it’s Corbusien, it’s distinctly not by Corbusier, which is a tough line to walk.

This house as a whole is very different from a typical Corb.
True, part of it (the 2 story cuboid above the podium) resembles a Corb structure, but that’s only a _part_
of the house. These are the main differences:
1. This house has a _basement_! Corbu trashes the very idea of a basement.
2. The room arrangement here is exactly the opposite of Corbu’s –
the bedrooms occupy the lowest level instead of the top level.
3. There’s no trace of a planned “promenade architecturelle”.
4. There’s no roof terrace as a culmination point of the journey through the house.
5. There’s no interior or exterior balcony/terrace overlooking a double height space.
6. While this house has two sunken courts, the typical Corbusian house doesn’t have a court, let alone a sunken one
7. The typical Corbusian villa is elevated from the terrain, in the ideal case entirely on stilts,
this one has a massive podium with high walls around it.
8. This house has its own setting (the walled yard) while Corb’s villas are objects framed by a natural setting (Villa Savoye)

Because its white doesn’t make it Corbusian. i happen to like this project, if for no other reason than there is present a true idea, a narrative of sorts, something rare in this profession. But given this project, Corbusier would have created a much more sculptural piece, and the movement through it would have been much closer to poetry than a spiral stair rammed through the center.

and Corbu used color.

The box is elegant enough on it’s own, but the wall is both unfortunate for the neighborhood context and the direction of society itself. It didn’t escape my notice that the rest of the neighborhood is walled as well, but this project reads like a monolith of austere purity in the midst. Pretentious to say the least, sad really.

The pursuit of perfect form is not the highest in my opinion, and I would argue that the form of the wall as juxtaposed to the box doesn’t accomplish that pusuit very well either.

If you bothered reading his publications, you would notice Campo Baeza is greatly influenced by Italian Renaissance: he is a Light Sculptor, he manipulates light in every form it comes to us. Using white boxes does not make him “Corbusian”, besides, trying to imitate Le Corbusier by recreating shapes and colors would probably be an insult.