Month: October 2022

“I love cobalt. It makes my heart sing,” kitchen and bath designer Tracey Stephens says. And now her colorful new kitchen sings to her. She and her husband moved for the purpose of downsizing and multigenerational living. The designer wanted to take o…

The project area is located on a rocky coastline in Croatia. It develops along a slope that descends from the mountain, where the access to the property is located, to the crystalline water of the private beach. The design choices were determined by the site’s peculiarity and the pre-existing building. The client’s request was to integrate a guest house and a living space into a pre-existent rural house made of stone and also to develop the interior design of those two spaces.

The project area is located on a rocky coastline in Croatia. It develops along a slope that descends from the mountain, where the access to the property is located, to the crystalline water of the private beach. The design choices were determined by the site’s peculiarity and the pre-existing building. The client’s request was to integrate a guest house and a living space into a pre-existent rural house made of stone and also to develop the interior design of those two spaces.

Architecture criticism and journalism are often expected to announce “the good, the bad, and the ugly” in architecture and the built environment. Its purposes go however further than that. As Michael Sorkin put it, “seeing beyond the glittering novelty of form, it is criticism’s role to assess and promote the positive effects architecture can bring to society and the wider world”. In other words, by telling us what they are seeing, critics are also showing us where to look in order to identify and address the issues plaguing our built environment.

This project considers architecture as a physical act, coinciding with what Helio Piñón clearly states in his writing “proyectar es construir” where he points out that when building a project, one must not only refer to its material constructive logic but also to its formal logic. That is to say, it is not only the building technique that guarantees the material consistency and predicts the permanence of the projects, but it is also the visual relationship between the constituent elements of the work, which is an essential objective of the project. Therefore, we work with the manipulation of physical characteristics both for support and protection from the climatic agents of nature. In their arrangement, they make up the architectural space for the purpose of human habitat.