La casa como memoria vivainjertos domésticos en ruinas vernáculas

Abstract

The insertion of homegrafts is a strategy recently used in several projects for the reuse of traditional abandoned architectures. The inserted artifact meets the current standards of functionality and comfort, while the pre-existence provides values associated with the memory of the place, of the building itself and of who lived there. The reconversion of a ruin in Gerês (Souto de Moura, 1980-82) has become one of the first and most lucid reflections on the permanence of the image of ruin in contemporary domestic projects. Between the object and the pre-existence a contrasting relation emerges due to their antithetical chronological, functional, formal and material identities, which merge symbiotically into an architectural hybrid. In E/C House (Sami Architects), Dovecote Studio (Haworth Tompkins), House in Tebra (Irisarri + Piñera) or Rifugio Paraloup (Castellino, Cottino, Barberis & Regis) the interaction between ruin and contemporary dwelling is also explored: the question of the house as living memory.