Final+Project

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Caravaggio’s House

The objective for this project was to design a house for an artist. I chose the incredible painter, Michelangelo Merisi better known as Caravaggio, probably the most revolutionary artist of his time. This Italian artist is considered the first baroque painter and the inventor of striking contrast of light and shadow. His works are also characterized by intensely emotional realism. So for this house I tried to create __**dramatics**__ **(dramatic)** atmospheres through vertical planes and little openings between them that helped me to create light entries in **__specifics__ (specific)** spaces.

The program for this house required a gallery, an office, a private room for work, the artist apartment and the teaching rooms for the students. Due to the personality of my client, I decided to design three volumes to keep the privacy of Caravaggio. One of these volumes is for the apartment, the other one for the office and another one for the work room and teaching rooms. The gallery is composed __**by**__ **(of)** the ground floor of these volumes, that allowed me to create a **__travel__ ( journey__)__**in the entire house where you can perceive the different light effects. Because of the context, that consist in a plot between **__another__** **(other)** constructions and a beautiful view of the square ,I decided to separate the three volumes, the apartment and the office at the front and the work and teaching rooms at the back so the space in the middle, the patio, serves for ventilation and natural light. The material I chose for this house was reinforced-concrete because **of** its properties to reflect the light, and the structure consist in post-and-lintel system.

The result is a house with high __**qualities**__ **(quality)** spaces and so many light effects that may be possible by the vertical planes and the contrast of light/shadow inside and outside the volumes that compose the house.