House of Convexities in Barcelona, Spain

July 29, 2010 Category: House, Residential

The beauty of creative arts is that they can converge in many ways, music and lyrics, costume and theatre and, as illustrated by Antonino Cardillo’s House of Convexities in Barcelona, architecture and dance.

House of Convexities is a two level home designed with Spanish traditional dance at its heart. Flamenco inspires the lines of the building playing with perspective and light.

Inside a house among coarse Mediterranean glades and corrugated stone walls, a slanting light, pierced by innumerable narrow repeated blades, inscribes and describes the walls with its impermanent, mutable hand. How many possible stories will this light tell over the course of a year?

A curved wall jokes with the light. The light bathes the wall, but reaches the moment and the place in which, going beyond the curve, it takes a tangent, deciding what will be lit and what will be dark. And this movement suggests the indefinite, mutability, shading, ineffability.

Here, as in a Flamenco dance, the body breaks up, invading the space moving through its potential articulations without, however, defining the void, or, interpreting the many possibilities of moving within it: fleshy and sensual, but equally incisive and precise. Secret but luminous. Closed but open to a multitude of possibilities. A body inside another body. Compressed, suspended and continuous in its curvilinear trajectory.

House of Convexities Design Architechture Plan