About the Daily Nature: "The Little House by the Sea"

Description of the Project by Joaquín Juberías.

I was very lucky that the clients formulated their wishes in the form of desires to re-live, not as a program (number of bedrooms, bathrooms and toilets, where and how they wanted the room, and how sometimes happens, the water covers should be evicted). The owner of "the little house by the sea" had not inherited it in very good condition and wanted to re-form it to be re-inhabited. He was not interested in what housing might contain, but in what it should happen inside. And so it was, that heritage, which is commonly thought in material terms, became a legacy of spaces, as the desire of the owner himself was none other than re-unite space conditions to allow him to re-produce actions with whom he had been happy: one weekend after another, vacations with his parents, sister and friends.

Thus, the actions that occur in this house, discover and describe, better than anything, his background and even more features and mannerisms of their owners and inhabitants. Furthermore, the design was simple: it consisted on projecting a barbecue that was not only that; an outdoor shower that was not just that, and a space that in its longitudinal extent looked to the TV and that was not only that. Thus, this kind of devices, barbecue, outdoor shower and the siesta sofa can operate autonomously, drawing and re-introducing the term that is so significant: the word house.

Following these ideas, the project was carried out as an "architecture background": an analogy to what is known as background noise. Background noise that you are not paying attention to or simply is, predictably, back there, sounding tirelessly, walking around being unnoticed. I have always liked to catalog the various background noises that characterize the places where I have been, as they are part of its essence, its soul. For this reason, I wanted to re-dis-cover the housing by its architecture background and squeezing the features that entails; Another approach to the design would have been a strident, self-centered act outside con-text.