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Unfinished: the cristal chain
Research in collaboration with Rellam L’Enova, Valencia. 2016
Exhibited at the Spanish PaviIlion at Venice Biennale 2016
The case study is located in L’Enova, a small population of only 1000 inhabitants located 55 kilometres from Valencia. Since 2010, the landscape of this municipality of the Ribera Alta is dominated by an unfinished promotion of 75 identical houses built on top of the hill flanking the village. Today, only one of the houses is occupied and the rest appears as a temporal sequence of the different phases of its construction: from the Foundation to the Interior tiling.
The collective reflection carried out is based on the appropriation of twelve of these unfinished units to generate a parallel reality, a new version of community life structured around the expression of difference. This alternative reality is created from the interaction of large and small owners, builders and architects. Rather than a standard product of massive productio, the house appears as a single object on a common basis, developed in unequal and contingent way to finish producing a different and impossible to define through large gestures landscape .
The collective reflection carried out is based on the appropriation of twelve of these unfinished units to generate a parallel reality, a new version of community life structured around the expression of difference. This alternative reality is created from the interaction of large and small owners, builders and architects. Rather than a standard product of massive productio, the house appears as a single object on a common basis, developed in unequal and contingent way to finish producing a different and impossible to define through large gestures landscape .
