#22 Harquitectes (SP), Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD

#22 Harquitectes (SP), Arquitetura Entre Vistas ABROAD Our 22nd stop is in Sabadell, Spain alongside Harquitectes, in the voice of Josep Ricart Ulldemolins. Harquitectes have the ability to design precise things with an abstract approach and abstract things with a very precise approach. I would risk to say that, for them, it is the same to draw a brick as it is to draw temperature. Every project is a new hypothesis on constructed conditions combined with natural phenomenon. “When all of these come together, it is more then just a basic survival experience, it is something closer to the extraordinary.” In the beginning of the office, maybe, their approach to the vernacular was one of aesthetics. But they’ve gradually started to discover the hidden reasons behind the vernacular look. “We don’t produce nothing new…maybe a new experiences, maybe a new typology but…” But isn’t this producing something new?…I wonder. “When you don’t plaster the brick, you get the memory of someone placing one brick over the other. That is why our buildings never have the feeling of something new, you have, at least, the time of the construction.” Maybe vernacular is not a thing of the past, maybe we are the vernacular of tomorrow. “I hope that we are producing some new vernacular.” Guest: Josep Ricart Ulldemolins  -  Harquitectes (Sabadell, Spain) Host: Ana Catarina Silva (Porto, Portugal) Sponsor: Duo-Thermo Upload your references to: arquiteturaentrevistas.com Instagram @arquiteturaentrevistas Follow for more thoughts on architecture.