Private commission
This small house closes a 7-year cycle: the first stage of our work from 2016 to 2023. The design, started in the same year and built slowly throughout this time by us, together with different local craftsmen, brings together all our learning and manual dexterity, the specialization in woodwork and construction, and the development of a fluctuating and continuous space that summarizes a major part of our previous projects. When it came to making these photographs, we agreed, together with Luis Díaz Díaz, on the possibility of returning to film and analogue photographic media - 35mm, medium and large format - in order to bring the whole process in line with a calmer approach, inherent to the project. And it especially made sense to use black and white, following the interests of Luis, who has been exploring this specific technique in his personal work for over the last 10 years. The house is located on an oblique and elongated plot in the form of a flattened trapezoid, surrounded by existing walls composed of ferruginous stone, quartz and slate, built in the traditional local manner. Its sharp shape intercedes in the crossroads at the entrance to the village of Madriguera next to the bell tower of San Pantaleón Church, being surrounded by different adjacent buildings.
2016-2023