Articles by Valentina Díaz

Pasqual Giner and Auñón Cabrera unveil Casa L5, a contemporary viewpoint overlooking the Mediterranean

Pasqual Giner and Auñón Cabrera unveil Casa L5, a contemporary viewpoint overlooking the Mediterranean

Pasqual Giner and Auñón Cabrera unveil Casa L5, a contemporary viewpoint overlooking the Mediterranean

Architecture begins as an encounter with gravity. It is the ancient act of placing weight upon the earth, of persuading matter to stand, hold, and shelter. Within this fundamental condition of heaviness, however, lies a quieter possibility: density itself can generate a sense of lightness—a perceptual condition in which the body, fully convinced of matter’s weight, begins to experience space as suspension.

There are territories where life is organized around water, where light filters through branches, and the vegetation defines how the air moves.

Casa Ceniza is a single-family home conceived as a massive geometric volume that protects itself from the street while creating an internal landscape of patios, water, and vegetation. Closed off from the outside and open to gardens and interior patios, the house proposes an introspective architecture where spaces are gradually revealed along the journey.

When the building was first accessed, it was in an advanced state of ruin: it had completely lost its roof, the flooring of the upper level of the first bay —corresponding to the old school— and was undergoing a significant process of vegetation colonization, the result of decades of continuous abandonment. The lack of protection against the elements had accelerated the deterioration of the walls and vaults, seriously compromising the stability of the entire structure. Although the competition documents limited the intervention to a part of the property, the project understood from the outset that it was essential to execute the entire roof as a preliminary structural and heritage operation, aimed at stopping the degradation process and ensuring the future conservation of the building.

The Vuelta al Monte is an installation developed for the Cosquín Rock Festival 2026, conceived as a device that seeks to restore the link between the event and the territory that sustains it, highlighting the use, awareness, and conservation of native plant species.