Window to the Ocean

This is the final image of my project: 

And here, some house plans: 

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~Nina

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Listening to: C'était salement romantique by Coeur de Pirate

Architecture and Music

I’ll start by quoting an anonymous author (n.d.): “music is what feelings sound like”.

Architecture and music have always been linked. Many authors have stated this relationship between architecture and music, such as Oscar Wilde and Schelling, but I would like to highlight the case of Goethe (1836), who, in a conversation with Eckermann said: “Architecture is "frozen music"… Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.”

This is why architecture for music has something special, something that makes music stop in time and architecture flow like a harmonious liquid, ending up in a whole which includes all the beauty of both arts. 

I think the best known case is the Sydney Opera House, by Jørn Utzon. Although he didn’t do the interior, the exterior is a beautiful metaphor of the sailboats which cross the bay of Sydney, made of a concrete structure, covered by bright white and cream tiles.

The Casa da Música in Porto, by O.M.A., is another example of great architecture for music. It is a building built in concrete made of a mixture of Portuguese Portland cement and blue sandstone. The interior has a wide range of textures and colors. The different rooms want to transmit different sensations, depending on the colors, the music and the way they are furnished. The main concert room is made of wood coated in gold leaf, remembering the Baroque art. 

There are many other examples of poetic architecture for music. But not only music and architecture, the conjunction of the arts make beautiful creations. A case of this is Le Corbusier, being an architect, painter, sculptor, designer, urbanist and writer, he wrote the Poem of the Right Angle (1947-1953), where he “conceived the creation and intervention of the artist in the world as a unique act in which architecture and art had a deep involvement” (Minerva, 2006).

~Nina

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Listening to: Nocturne Op.9 No.2 by Chopin

Music is what feelings sound like

No need for explanation :)

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~Nina

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Listening to: The Labyrinth by Javier Navarrete

Inspiration...

If you listen to this while you are doing a project, trust me that your inspiration will increase a 100% (it's just too beautiful):

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~Nina

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Listening to: Madame Butterfly by Maria Callas

Architecture and Dance

Just a quote related to our female client:

"Architecture is the design of space, both interior and exterior. So it’s much more closely related to dance than it is to painting or sculpture."

Bruce Graham

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~Nina

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Listening to: Morning Passages by Philip Glass

Reaching the goal

After months of work, we finally had the definitive plans for our house.

As you know, the users of the house are an artist and a ballerina.
The whole building is made to fulfill their expectations and dreams.

There is a main common space, which is the module that articulates the spaces. It is formed by the hall, the living room/ dining room and the music room.

This module is connected to the 'technical module' and the 'artistic modules'.

The technical module is a box that contains the kitchen, the bathroom and the cupboard.

The artistic modules are the private ones for the users: the ballerina studio for her and the paint studio for him.

The paint studio has double height and it has a skylight on top, to get the best kind of light for painting.

The ballerina studio is based on the movement of a ballerina, adaptating its shape to it.

On the second floor there is the bedroom, wich has views to the living room in the lower floor.

Here are the panels, one for Projects and one for Construction:

Now, we have to customize our house a different way, and fix a couple of things. We'll see how it comes out.

Keep reading!

~Nina

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Listening to: Riverside by Agnes Obel