We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer Fernando Abelleyro about their original and creative House design work. Fernando Abelleyro is an award-winning architectural designer, that makes our world a better place with their original house works.
Fernando Abelleyro ("FA") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work Santos House. Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
FA : The project seeks to establish a relationship between the house and the context,to enable maximum natural light. Moving the floors in section, creating a double-height space with a glazed ceiling, which allows the interior of the house on its two floors to be visually and spatially integrated with the surroundings, favoring the entry of light. In turn, a metal roof with a wooden structure that flies over skylight, protects it from the incidence of the west sun.
FA : The need to promote a typological construction that enhances versatility and constructive possibility that wood offers; in our country it was never widely accepted as a reliable and noble construction material. It was necessary to generate a project wich expresses the potential of this wonderful material.The inspiration was given by the context itself, given the search to articulate a fluid relationship between the house and the landscape. An strong spatial and visual relationship with the context,
FA : I really don´t know. The most wonderful thing about this project is that it has transcended the horizons I imagined.
FA : Just one week. But the projects never "freeze".
FA : The client wanted a small wooden house in a fantastic natural landscape. When visiting the place, I imagined a project that solves three conditions, relationship with the environment, spatiality and materiality.
FA : No, it is a unique and unrepeatable architectural project
FA : My passion for architecture
FA : My architectural “baggage” is the result of an internal search for improvement, and the teachings of my dear proffesor and teacher Mario Linder, the reading of the masters, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wrigh, Gaudí. They made me understand how wonderful is to have a passion for design, to feel that we positively transform people's lives.
FA : For this particualr design he was a private client, a fantastic Film Producer whose name is Rolando Santos. He was fascinated by the idea, and support any stage of the project.
FA : I think that question can be answered by my colleagues better than me. I think all designers seek to create a project that is different from what already exists.
FA : Santos, it was always like this. It is the name of its owner, Rolando Santos, a tribute to his trust and support.
FA : Lots of hand drawing, a computer, autocad, office pack.
FA : I suppose it is the conjunction of three aspects, the idea, its contextuality and its material.
FA : The Architect Pablo Coles collaborated with me on the construction aspects, and Proffesor Mariano Mirengo, who had a sawmill and knowledge of wood. We had to train people who made wood roofs, who had some skill in handling the material, since there were no trained personnel to build wooden houses.
FA : Fundamental.The totality of the house is made of wood, structure, ceilings and floors, calculated and dimensioned considering the architectural modulation and commercial availability in terms of market sections and pieces, optimizing and rationalizing the construction..
FA : No, just my personal experience in the field of design, research and teaching
FA : The economic difficulties that my country went through during the construction process
FA : Fortunately, he had already participated in other international competitions and had obtained awards (Ireland, Spain). It is a way of understanding where I am standing as a designer worldwide. A ´Design Award is a wonderful space, I have discovered thousands of design projects in all disciplines, a" world bank of inspiring cultures", which allows you to understand the world of design much better, more broadly, better understand your place, and what think the world of your creativity.
FA : Learning goes beyond works and develops throughout life.
FA : Yes, just the last refelction: "The challenge of reflecting, designing and building." University training and professional practice offer the project challenge of reflecting, designing and building. The path of permanent personal learning and training, begun in university workshops, transfers different scales and spaces of proposal, academic and labor. The University, Public Organizations, private studies and companies, Architecture and Urbanism competitions, may be those areas where everyone can think, design, plan and materialize architecture and urban projects. These projects will constitute social events and therefore a propositional axis will be necessary, the structuring of which will be independent of the field of work where the architect develop them, and will be defined by the theoretical framework of their training, dialogue with the context of their insertion, critical analysis and self-criticism of ideas, knowledge of available technologies and resources, applied methodology, enriching multidisciplinary work and, fundamentally, the good of the community.
