Ocaña, Toledo, Spain
Manuel Ocaña Architecture & Thought Production Office
Post By:Kitticoon Poopong
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This collective
housing project tries to be a tribute to the inner wishes of the current
Spanish society. The project is an ultra-realistic performance about the real state market, in the shape of a 53 dwellings building developed in ground floor + 3 heights.
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We succumbed to the unquestionable wishes of a creative private promoter. He wanted a building that looked like from
Cuenca from the outside but very modern in the inside. We proposed to build it as a replica of the hunging houses. The two first floors would be rock (constructed with the same techniques used in the
theme parks Port Aventura and
Terra Mítica), while the two last ones would be costumbrist houses laid on it, finished with a roof made of a canvas with a serigraphy of Arab tiles.
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The first architectural decision appears with the configuration of the building as a 2+2 instead of a ground floor +3. Two orders, of two floors each, piled in horizontal. Five extent irregular shaped volumes lay on the inferior basement. All the houses are different one from each other.
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Butt the main architectural decision is about the common spaces of circulation. Those generous spaces are solved around wide open patios, with crooked and secret flowings. In the upper lever the extent configuration of the five volumes allow, besides of interesting micro-spaces for community use, spaces with diagonal and surprise views.
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On the other hand, the final image of this architecture, (that can be related to the oceans of fake, Hello Kitty´s fossil or a pre-Columbine Mickey Mouse could be references) has the suspicious aim of understanding public opinion as an order, not as a proposal. The result is a language based on clichés, on the most popular topics that appear in the touristic postcards; images and representations that most of Spanish people understand as a paradigm of wellness and happiness.
Description from the Architects:
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Project Data
Project name: Ocaña De España
Location: Ocaña, Toledo, Spain
Program: Housing
Built-up area: 4,145 m2
Completion Year: 2009
Budget: 3,300,000 €
The people
Architects: Manuel Ocaña Architecture & Thought Production Office
Client: BIUR S.L. Carlos Martí
Principal designer: Manuel Ocaña
Design team: Roberto González García, Lucía Martínez, Javier Aguirre, Pilar Pérez Flores
Contractor: Biur
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