La Casa Bifurca, Madrid, Spain home photos, Mediterranean residential property images
La Casa Bifurca in Madrid
22 October 2024
Architect: Voluar Arquitectos
Location: Madrid, Spain
Photos © Imagen Subliminal (Miguel de Guzmán + Rocío Romero)
La Casa Bifurca, Madrid – Spain Property Design
Albert Einstein showed us that space cannot be conceived independently from time; both concepts are mutually interrelated in an unbreakable way. They intertwine to form the framework on which we exist and, like the two-faced god Janus, present the same essence, but with two tied polarities: space-time.
Architects often talk about the qualities of space, but we seldom reflect on the temporal essence it carries. Spatial limits and configurations imply different temporal perceptions. Because space, without time becoming a static and flat image, loses its depth.
This branching configuration, so distant from the paradigm of the Box or the unique homogenous space, pushes us to explore and understand it by walking through it. It encourages us to invest time and explore the temporal condition of space and how its possible paths and bifurcations form a riddle whose key is time.
A complete glance in a brief instant is not possible because there is no privileged point of view, no fixed perspective that represents and explains the entire dwelling. The house does not establish itself as a static stage; as we move, planes and gaps open up, and visual perspectives close successively and hide away. With each step, the space changes and unfolds with our body’s movement. Whether inside or outside, each viewpoint has particular and changing considerations throughout the day, and natural light writes, through changing shadows, the continuous unfolding of time.
Its materiality, steel, also speaks of perpetual change, rusting over time like living matter. The glass, with its ever-changing reflections, blurs the boundaries between interior and exterior, incorporating the garden into domestic space. Only the curved mirror housed within can break with the conventional flow of space-time, distorting it to show overlapping spaces of impossible time and quantum superposition in an instant. We cannot stop time, but we can build spaces that make its perception more noticeable, densifying time, even if it’s just an illusion.
La Casa Bifurca, Madrid, Spain – Building Information
Architect: Voluar Arquitectos – https://voluar.com/
Lead Architect: Borja Lomas
Location: Madrid
Completed: 2023
Collaborators: Pablo Rodríguez (Arquitecto). Gabriel Todirica (Jefe de Obra)
Construction: Voluar construcción SL (Autoconstrucción)
Photography © Imagen Subliminal (Miguel de Guzmán + Rocío Romero)
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