152__ sectioning
In addition to the floor plan strategy, this project incorporates a sectional movement, merging into the single folded plate what was understood volumetrically before (in the clinics) as two levels. This folded surface as roof has a syncopated rhythm of double and single pace according to the program and incorporates the interstitial spaces between the programmatic bars alternately to one side or the other, producing an unexpected transversal continuity of the roof skirts. There are single and double module structural trusses, with congruent slopes and geometries – i.e. the large contains the small. It is again a field condition, an extensive matrix upon which a geometrical strategy is imposed by modulation of the program (interior and exterior spaces) in visual continuity. Light comes from above, recurrently this time through the sawtooth roof that acts as a light-directing layer. In touching the ground, the house is gently placed at the front on a green lawn that abruptly becomes a reef. The palafitic condition creates an antigravity perception by flotation to the main floor and a new spatial opportunity underneath. Along with it comes the idea of the sixth façade (the belly), a reflective folded plane that blurs what it reflects.