Moliner House by Alberto Campo Baeza
Alberto Campo Baeza designed the Moliner house in Zaragoza, Spain.
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Description from the architects:
To build a house for a poet. To make a house for dreaming, living and dying. A house in which to read, to write and to think.
We raised high walls to create a box open to the sky, like a nude, metaphysical garden, with concrete walls and floor. To create an interior world. We dug into the ground to plant leafy trees.
And floating in the center, a box filled with the translucent light of the north. Three levels were established. The highest for dreaming. The garden level for living. The deepest level for sleeping.
For dreaming, we created a cloud at the highest point. A library constructed with high walls of light diffused through large translucent glass. With northern light for reading and writing, thinking and feeling.
For living, the garden with southern light, sunlight. A space that is all garden, with transparent walls that bring together inside and outside.
And for sleeping, perhaps dying, the deepest level. The bedrooms below, as if in a cave.
Once again, the cave and the cabin.
Dreaming, living, dying. The house of the poet.
Visit the website of Alberto Campo Baeza – here.
Photography by Javier Callejas
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CMcKee on 31 Jan 2012 at 5:13 am #
The text states: ‘We raised high walls to create a box OPEN TO THE SKY, like a nude, metaphysical garden, with concrete walls and floor.’ yet the box has a very solid roof with no visual communication to the sky at all? An ambition unrealised?
Ralu on 31 Jan 2012 at 5:35 am #
Too white and doesn’t fit the landscape.
bagus on 31 Jan 2012 at 6:32 am #
that’s home make me interest, I will try to change the color of the walls of my house so white as in the picture and add a few pages. I love this house design.
solarnator on 31 Jan 2012 at 7:02 am #
yes, definitely a house for dying…in a residential hospital.
obviously the poet is cluttered with thoughts and needs to be far removed from nature as possible.
he could have saved a lot of money by simply visiting his local hospital and speaking with patients for inspiration.
but now they will dye in his or her own white coffin.
how inviting.how useful.hoe relevant for the modern poet!
smt on 31 Jan 2012 at 7:58 am #
Is it a freezer o a house ???
Patrovio Baligno on 31 Jan 2012 at 9:57 am #
I like the white.
LosCA on 31 Jan 2012 at 10:37 am #
@Ralu… seriously… two days in a row now with the same pointless comment about all white. say something worth reading, or enough already.
Møbler on 31 Jan 2012 at 10:40 am #
Thats really a nice and clean architecture
Ahsan on 31 Jan 2012 at 12:15 pm #
The project description above killed me I will now retire to the deepest level, the bedroom below, as if in a cave…
The house of the poet killed me.
Great on 31 Jan 2012 at 12:16 pm #
This is painful to read…
I’d fill up the spaces with modern furnishings.
kmg on 31 Jan 2012 at 1:01 pm #
A-septic.
ModernMan on 31 Jan 2012 at 3:32 pm #
@CMcKee – ‘box open to the sky’ is reference to the garden walls – while the house is ‘floating in the center’.
Peter van der Veer on 31 Jan 2012 at 5:28 pm #
“In my hut this spring
There is nothing, -
There is everything!”
is a Haiku poem by SODO.
It completely explains thinking creative spaces like these;
how extremely comfortable, relaxing and pleasurable they are for confident original thinkers to live and work in.
29 design on 31 Jan 2012 at 8:22 pm #
what this house needs is a family with kids. would love to see the space with toys, bicycles, walkers, play pens, a colorful swing, teddy bears, a bouncy chair, a rocking chair, and a high chair…
Graham Roebeck on 31 Jan 2012 at 9:13 pm #
Clever! A white house like a blank piece of paper… if the poet wrote his work on every blank surface, the whole house would be tax deductible. Brilliant!
Rudy on 01 Feb 2012 at 12:11 am #
Whenever there is a posting of an austere house you can wait for those silly comments like “29 design’s”. Can’t these people see not everybody need the lifestyle they are describing. Some people are passed that stage or skip it altogether.
tuan vu on 01 Feb 2012 at 6:50 am #
i like commentary: “A house in which to read, to write and to think.”. clean achitecture.
Onelab on 01 Feb 2012 at 7:14 am #
@Rudy:
you past the stage of wanting or having children and waiting to die in a privatly held mortuarium?
Then I suppose it would work.
Looks like a house for a Vulcan. Devoid of any emotion.
shane on 01 Feb 2012 at 8:27 am #
good point rudy, I think the world has enough people but I do think some colorful accents would make this space more interesting. Also where’s the kitchen or the bed he’s going to die in? I think these are 2 very important rooms in any home
alberto on 01 Feb 2012 at 9:31 am #
Form follows concept. This is a truly poetic concept excellently realized. I only wish the transitions (outside to inside, level to level) had been more expressive.
Arch Orange on 01 Feb 2012 at 2:39 pm #
it´s one thing to decide to live in a house like this (which I do like in it´s clear and clean design), but it´s another thing to realise it in a grown neighborhood like the one shown here- why not blow the “garden”-walls away and replace them by hedges, or remove it completely to La Mancha…
Maarit on 02 Feb 2012 at 1:37 am #
You hit the point @ArchOrange. It is not about whether this house itself looks great or not (which it does, even though personally I prefer more colors)but why build a house like this in the middle of an ordinary looking Spanish town, then build a high wall between the society and oneself….gives me the creeps.
swampgas on 02 Feb 2012 at 2:56 pm #
For those that complain about the context and want hedges or to have the house removed to a remote region you are missing the statement that this house makes by NOT being like it’s adjacent, boring, run of the mill homes. None of which seem very welcoming. Rather than to conform and fit in it is it’s own individual upon which the reflection of the others is so poignant.
For those that think it is too sparse, lacks color or kids toys then perhaps you should familiarize yourselves with the needs and desires of the poet client that it was designed for.
Rudy on 02 Feb 2012 at 7:14 pm #
@ Onelab
I did not mention my personal preferences in the comment. Personally I like a lot more greenery and textures. However when I read in the description this house is for a poet, I can admire it as such. It is very appropriate. What bothers me is that some posters cannot see beyond their own little confined lifestyles. What is good for them is good for everybody. Just hope these narrow-minded individuals hold not any position with power.
Maarit on 03 Feb 2012 at 2:20 am #
This house in this environment shrieks: “Look at me, but don’t you dare to come any closer!”
Arnout Hasselaar on 03 Feb 2012 at 3:07 am #
Let’s hope it stays cloudy with all this white! Although it’s verry nice!