Can you imagine a space where family roles are redrawn, where domestic work is made visible and gender differences are suspended? Can you imagine a home designed so that its inhabitants take care of each other and a public square that encourages free, inclusive and diverse play between boys and girls? Well, there is no need to imagine them. These spaces exist. They are a reality that permeates the territory of our country and, in the province of Seville, specifically, in Castilleja de la Cuesta, they have a good example in the "House of the Nine Frames".
The “House of the Nine Frames” was completed in 2022 by the Seville studio Sol89 and reflects the transformative power of Architecture, where domestic work is made visible and gender differences are suspended, leading the Higher Council of the Colleges of Architects of Spain to include this project in the #ArquitecturasParaLaIgualdad campaign, an initiative that began on March 8, on the occasion of International Women's Day.
House of the Nine Frames by Sol89. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
With a simple program that demonstrates the important role that architects have in listening to and accompanying people to materialize their life dreams in projects, the “House of the Nine Porticos” is designed to welcome and share and achieves this by combining industrial innovation with respect for local architectural tradition through a light steel structure behind a solid facade, creating contrasts of solids and voids, lights and shadows.
"They asked us for a house where they never lost sight of each other, hence the openness and visibility of almost everything, including the bathroom open to the bedroom, and that each space could be shared, like the shower, which becomes a room, a hammam, or the pool, a copy of Gemma's memories of the patio and the garden of her childhood, where a persimmon tree and a well relieved the hours of heat".
Sol89, María González and Juanjo López de la Cruz.
House of the Nine Frames by Sol89. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
The CSCAE (Higher Council of the Colleges of Architects of Spain), which, through its Gender Commission, has included it within the #ArquitecturasParaLaIgualdad campaign. An initiative that began on March 8, on the occasion of International Women's Day, and which is developed with unequal criteria on the CSCAE social networks.
"In the Colleges of Architects and the Superior Council, we are clear that equality is a transversal value. The objective of this campaign is for citizens to know, directly, daily, how Architecture and its values impact our lives and improve them for us".
María José Peñalver, treasurer and coordinator of the Gender Commission of the CSCAE.
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