Hemeroscopium house, Las Rozas,

"K2T Wisata"

For the Greek, Hemeroscopium is the place where the sun sets. An allusion to a place that exists only in our mind, in our senses, that is ever-changing and mutable, but is nonetheless real. It is delimited by the references of the horizon, by the physical limits, defined by light, and it happens in time. Hemeroscopium house traps near Madrid, a domestic space, and a distant horizon. And it does so playing a game with structures placed in an apparently unstable balance, that enclose the living spaces allowing the vision to escape. With heavy structures and big actions, disposed in a way to provoke gravity to move the space. And this way it defines the place.

The order in which these structures are piled up generates a helix that sets out from a straight support, the mother beam, also develops upwards fix a sequence of elements that turn out lighter seeing the structure grows, second on a mark that culminates the system of equilibrium. Seven elements in total. The design of their joints cope to their constructive nature, to their forces; and their stresses explicate the structural condition they believe. By the access this framework is set, the house becomes aerial, light, transparent, and the space kept inside flows curtain life. The simple simplicity of the structure’s joints requires pressure fact the development of complex calculations, good to the reinforcement, further the prestress and post-tension of the enliven rods that sew the web of the beams.