Habitación coraza. El espacio del refugio

Abstract

If “the house is the container, the shell, of a home” the room could be the refuge, the cuirass of the solitary person. Many inhabitants have seen this domestic space as a physical refuge: against the outside, against their fears, or against yourself. The ‘cuirass room’ becomes a second skin, a magic place: the space to protect, go off alone, hide away and isolate yourself. The objective is to observe the architecture of the room from the interior, from these isolation periods, and to understand other spatial qualities of these minimum units. Some literary works –Dostoyevsky, de Maistre, Perec– and some artistic experiences –Bourgeois, Nauman, Beuys– are used as the elements of this drift: to approach the action-body binomial; to measure the perimeter, to walk the room, or to reference the context of the room from the ‘dreamer’s’ body. The ‘cuirass room’ is a spatial, strategic and architectural approach.