TUR House is an exercise for the total customization of a home in a standard apartment block, in a working-class neighborhood, within an affordable budget, based on the principle of taking advantage of the opportunities offered by the industry to get out of the pre-established.
There are fewer and fewer carpenters or blacksmiths who work in an artisanal way, and those that exist due to demand become prohibitive services for the vast majority. What is standardized is cheaper, because it is repeated ad infinitum and can be done by machines and not by people.
There is still hope! Working with standard materials and arranging them intelligently, we can obtain unique results.
By looking for fun, expressive and suggestive ceramic pieces, placing them in unexpected places, we achieve surprise and strangeness and we will end by creating a different space.
What happens if we design a child-like bedroom for an adult? What would happen if the bedroom extends into the living room? Like a cloud moving across a landscape. What if a lamp is the sun? …
With materials that can be bought in any store, we can fill a space with color and originality, through imagination and creativity.
Bio “OOIIO doesn’t mean anything particular, therefore, it can mean whatever.”
The studio was born in La Mancha, around 2010, with the desire of becoming a laboratory of architecture, a platform from which to explore creative solutions to various architectural problems which do not have a clear way forward. A blank canvas, a long roll of paper on which to draw and imagine architecture.
OOIIO is more of a workshop than an office. The studio follows a work method based on an open creative process, always beginning each project ‘from scratch.’
