Young Coderch: the Ugalde house

Abstract

This text reveals us the Ugalde House connected with the personality of that young Coderch who, between reason and unreason, far from certainties, doubted with a trembling hand, not wishing to catch dreams. An envisaged house, from the first encounter with the space, where his ability to imagine life refers us to atavistic situations. The house is shown as a complex phenomenon that regenerates our Mediterranean tradition, using traditional words wrapped with new meanings. The house is described as a complete experience which, from the entrance, moves through the places he imagined, around that table where he placed a chair, to make it his own. It bring us back to that twisted, complex and labyrinthine citadel, full of stairs, terraces, roofs, yards and shadowed thresholds, so present in our culture. His own sketches, included along the article, show the lighthearted embrace between the two geometries, the natural and the imposed, as a result of the intense dialogue that the architect maintained with the space. Through this overlapping, the controlled expertise of that apparent geometric informality can be observed, where that complex and mysterious natural order underlies, to which few are invited. I do not know many houses like this one. Neither does Coderch&