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Final Project

 Artist's House: Conrad Roset  A design project involves the development of a building and the development of a representative scheme through a model, which gives the opportunity for both the architect and the client a preview of the design they want in detail and perspective. It involves not only a particular need. Designing a house for an artist can be seen as very simple, but it isn't.   Once I was asked to design a house for an artist, my first idea was to create a house that had a ribbon that evoqued the movement and sensuality of a woman. This was because the artist I chose is a Catalan illustrator, called Conrad Roset, that gets inspiration from women and their sensuality. I tried to represent this idea with this ribbon that sometimes is a wall, then it is a floor, then it becomes a roof and finally it becomes a wall again. On the ground floor, you can find all the public spaces: the reception, the services and a small restaurant. When you go upstairs to the first floor, you can go two ways: if you go right, you find a balcony with a view to the square and to the left you can enter the art gallery. On the second floor, there's the artist's house: a loft with a kitchen a living room and his bedroom with his study. I consider the house as a kind of "house with a cristal box inside" giving continuity to the spaces. So, to achieve this, my first idea was to use concrete and glass as primary building materials.

It is a transparent building in the main and south elevation, it combines the use of glass, with pierced walls that define the relationship between interior and exterior space. It is closed with blind walls that correspond to the side elevations. The structure consists of a symmetrical volume, two-story space with a rectangular plan. It is distributed internally with basic and orthogonal shapes, creating regular spaces that provides a fluid and dynamic journey through the house.

With the personality of the artist and his work, I was able to create spaces that evoqued his artwork and his muses: his major inspiration. []

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