IN-PERSON Barcelona. Section B
Abstract
The uniqueness of the Sansalvador villa, the first work designed exclusively by Josep Maria Jujol in Barcelona, awakens in the visitor a series of unknowns about its origin and its conception. The fact that it is not finished, the scarce existing planimetric documentation and the unique combination of modernist and organic elements, make this residential complex an exceptional and personal work of the famous architect. Here we offer a detailed study of its history and conceptualization based on the analysis of the original documents and the detailed photogrammetric survey of the built architectural complex as it is today. One of the singularities of this villa lies in the impossibility of seeing it and understanding it in its entirety, in one go. In itself, Jujol’s modus operandi was fragmentary. On the Sansalvador villa, both the topography of the plot and the erratic course of his commission and the architect’s way of operating favoured a fragmented composition but with a certain harmony, within an apparent unity. Buildings go beyond the historical time of people, and also dialogue with vegetation, stones and fauna. Each representation emerges part of these dialogues. The superposition of the new planimetry, generated from a points cloud resulting from the fieldwork, with the original plans, allows to identify certain singularities, discrepancies and changes not initially foreseen, which represents an advance in the study of the creative process of this personality of Catalan architecture.
Jordi de Gispert Hernández is an architect graduated ETSAB (2007), PhD ETSAM+EHESS (2018). He works on the representation of architectural projects from process and materiality. The combination of professional activity, based on the design of buildings, landscape and furniture, with academic, editorial and research practices, supposes a theoretical research and professional approach. He has taught at the HEPIA-Geneva, at ETSAM-Madrid, at the UIC -Barcelona, and at ELISAVA-Barcelona. He is currently professor and deputy director of the ETSAV-Vallès and he teaches Architectural Representation.
Sandra Moliner Nuño. Architect ETSAB- Barcelona in 1991-1999. PhD in the Department of Architectural Representation of the ETSAB in 2018. Office with own development of the profession since 2000. Professor of Architectural Graphic Expression at the School of Architecture of La Salle, Ramon Llull University from 2002-2003. Professor of Architectural Graphic Expression at the Vallès School of Architecture, ETSAV, of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), since the 2009-2010 academic year.
Isabel Crespo Cabillo. Architect since 1989 from ETSAV and PhD in Architecture from UPC since 2005. Professional practice in his own studio and collaborating with other studios between 1989 and 2010. Professor of Descriptive geometry and technical drawing, at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura del Vallés, of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia since 1989. Professor of solar geometry and natural light in the master MBArch of the ETSAB and member of the academic commission of the program of AIEM PhD. He has been a member of the CAIRAT group (Centre d’Aplicacions Informàtiques per a la representació de l’arquitectura i el territoti) of the ETSAV with which he has published various articles and communications to conferences on topics related to the teaching of drawing and has directed two PhD theses on geometry in Gaudí and the impact of the Gaudí phenomenon on the city. She has been director of Studies at ETSAV from 2005 to 2011. Currently a Member of the Architecture, Energy and Environment Research Group, in which she has directed doctoral theses and has participated in research projects on urban morphology and energy.
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Tuesday 16th July, 2024