无家可居丨西班牙丨Bayona Studio

Architects:Bayona Studio

Area:1937ft²

Year:2021

Photographs:Pep Sau,Xevi Bayona,Anna Costa

Lead Architects:Xevi Bayona, Cristina Montero, Dídac Franco

Collaborators:Aniol Coll, Marc Rotllant, Nuri Muñoz, Cesc Coromines, Marta Muñoz, Aura Bayona, Eudald Bayona, Dídac Morera, Xevi Muñoz, Pere Ramon, Xevi Cros, Francesc Figueres, Quim Pont, Anna Tantull, David Lopez, Francesc Montero, Àlex Hernandez, Raquel Martin, Adrià Baulena, Buli, Albert Nogué, Quel Roca, Quim Morera, Xavier de Torres, Anna Juarez, Pep Fargas, Met Tané, Joan Bramon, Edu Martin, Veins del carrer Alta maduixa, Neus Serrat, Marta Aumatell, Albert Palomeras, Selene, Esteve Planella, Jaume Prat, Lola Solanilla, Met Picart, Roger Paez, Joan Riera, Stela Salinas, Ferran Bassaganyes, Ricard Sargatal, Jordi Güell, Abel, Radwane Belarbi, Marc Conca, Carlos Josue Flores, Anass Guaou, Damang Jallow, Akshit Kumar, Walid Laaboudi, Bryan Parra, Esteban Sánchez, Ferriol Sarola, Abulai Semega, Harmail Singh, Pushpinder Singh, Hamza Touray

Lighting:Alex Posada - mid.studio

Clients:Lluèrnia Festival del foc i de la llum

City:Olot

Country:Spain

“HABITARE” OR A HOME WITHOUT A HOUSE “Habitare”, to inhabit, from the Latin for “to occupy a place”, to live in it. Architecture is capable of summoning a house simply by outlining spaces, shaping their limits with countless resources and nuances. The architecture, the result of how houses are formed, depends on these limits and their formal and material complexity. And yet, a house isn’t by default necessarily a home.

A home is a dwelling with the addition of the formal humanization that results from living in it, from adding in the objects and furniture possessed by the people who live in it, their belongings, their souls. It is the inhabitants, connected anthropologically to the hearth and the family living their lives around it, who are responsible for creating a home. The furniture comprises the objects that faithfully and silently accompany the life of an individual, a family, multiple generations. People pass on and the furniture remains: as a memory, as a witness, to evoke those who are no longer with us, sometimes to reveal their secrets.

Urban forms and architecture, like people, also pass on, change, transform, or even disappear. On a plot where various homes once shared a building, a vacant lot appears. Now, there is no longer a house here, just a structure that, arduously, like under a yoke, holds up the neighboring house, which can’t stand on its own.

A structure that acts as a crutch, that isn’t a house but reminds us, formally, with its metallic lines, that there might once have been a soul there, there was life there. Furnishing urban voids, rekindling the souls of former homes, without the limits or physical supports of a house and without its inhabitants. “Habitare” or a home without a house.

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Address:Olot, Province of Girona, Spain