Enric Ruiz Geli

Villa Bio

Villa Bio
© Lluís Ros / Optical Adiction

Villa Bio

Enric Ruiz Geli

ARCHITECTS
Enric Ruiz Geli

PHOTOGRAPHS
Lluís Ros / Optical Adiction

YEAR
2005

LOCATION
Barcelona, Spain

CATEGORY
Houses

Text description provided by architect.

Contemporary architecture is THE PLATFORM on which culture and contemporary art rest.

Living in an exciting platform can become an art form: THE ART OF LIVING.

Villa Bio
© Lluís Ros / Optical Adiction
Villa Bio
© Lluís Ros / Optical Adiction

We conceived this platform as a LANDSCAPE OF LINEAR EVENTS. The landscape folds itself within the site and forms a growing SPIRAL.

The platform is a LINEAR STRUCTURE made of concrete of constant section in the shape of a "C". The longitudinal blind FAÇADES function as BEAMS and create a 15m. projection.

Villa Bio
© Lluís Ros / Optical Adiction
Villa Bio
© Lluís Ros / Optical Adiction

CONCRETE IS A LIQUID MATERIAL.

The concrete as liquid material solidifies and creates a “liquid” topography on the façade.

1- We create a 3D model of the topographical landscape that we want to construct.
2- Virilian landscape of accidents.

Villa Bio
© Lluís Ros / Optical Adiction
Villa Bio
© Lluís Ros / Optical Adiction

3- Using CadCam with a milling machine with 3 axes, we mold a personalized image, unique and non-standard, of 24m x 3m.
4- We treat the mold and we convert it into formwork of the north and south longitudinal façades.

The platform enters into liquid state, mutant, with a covering of natural plants, an interior landscape of glass (stone) with plotters of digital renders...
A bio architecture.

Villa Bio
© Lluís Ros / Optical Adiction
Villa Bio
© Lluís Ros / Optical Adiction
Villa Bio
© Lluís Ros / Optical Adiction


Villa Bio
© Lluís Ros / Optical Adiction
Villa Bio
© Lluís Ros / Optical Adiction
Villa Bio
© Lluís Ros / Optical Adiction
Villa Bio
© Lluís Ros / Optical Adiction
Villa Bio
© Lluís Ros / Optical Adiction


Villa Bio
© Lluís Ros / Optical Adiction
Villa Bio
© Lluís Ros / Optical Adiction
Villa Bio
© Lluís Ros / Optical Adiction
Villa Bio
© Lluís Ros / Optical Adiction
Villa Bio
© Lluís Ros / Optical Adiction


Villa Bio
© Lluís Ros / Optical Adiction
Villa Bio
© Lluís Ros / Optical Adiction


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Structural Diagram
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Enric Ruiz Geli
T +34 931 286387
Enric Ruiz Geli
Carrer del Cardenal Sentmenat, 37, local pb, Sarrià-Sant Gervasi, 08017 Barcelona, Spain