Casa Abu

Archives 6. Solano Benítez & Gloria Cabral The numbers show that in South America, a family is victimised by violence and insecurity every second. If we were to weigh this sequence of pain, by measuring in proximity, the number of times that time in lives interrupts its course, we would obtain the totals that are demanded in its protection… To build to protect, a house against all the bad weather, those of the sun and the rains and those of indifference, fear and loneliness, a house as a tool of resistance, where life nests once again. Los números cuentan que en la América Sur, una familia, es victimizada por violencia e inseguridad a cada segundo. Si pesáramos esta secuencia de dolor, al medir en cercanía, la cantidad de veces que el tiempo en vidas interrumpe su transcurso, obtendríamos los totales que se demandan en su protección. Construir para proteger, una casa contra todas las intemperies, las del sol y las lluvias y las que arrecian indiferencia, miedo y soledades, una casa como herramienta de resistencia, donde de nuevo anide la vida. A Mother and her many children, and her life in prolongation, seven other families and twenty-odd grandchildren, gathered together on any given Saturday, is presented as the first programme, and after the exodus, the new waiting. Life is persistently longed for, it is the architecture that adapts and transforms… A free ground floor that only keeps fragments of the service, and whose doors open up the space, until the house and its building become one. Strictly speaking, this interior space and its exterior coincide by making the openings comply with the mandate of its name. Una Madre y sus muchos hijos, y su vida en prolongación, otras 7 familias y veintitantos nietos, reunidos en un todos los sábados cualquiera, se presenta como primer programa, y tras el éxodo la nueva espera. La vida se añora persistente, la que se adapta y se transforma es la arquitectura.