The project of 'Architecture collectibles': Solo Houses

2017-08-28T18:21:00-04:00

The overall project is a bit like Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture programme of architect-designed holiday homes, except that Solo’s are all in the same 100-hectare location. It also resembles the Serpentine Galleries’ annual architecture pavilion, with the difference that these houses are permanent and habitable.

Just over the border from Catalonia, amid the mountainous landscape of eastern Spain, a new one-of-a-kind development is underway. Including a total of 15 houses and a hotel, each designed by a different architect, Solo Houses was initiated by a Paris-based couple, Christian Bourdais and Eva Albarran. The 'collection' strives to capture the current state of architecture and is united by a remarkable material and light sensibility.

The ‘right-angled mushroom’ Solo House designed by Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen. Photograph: Pezo Von Ellrichshausen; Image via theguardian.com

So far, two houses are completed—a concrete and square tower by Chile-based Pezo von Ellrichshausen and a circular house designed by the Brussels practice Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen.

Solo Houses’ choices are those of enthusiasts who know their field and know what they like. Bourdais says he wasn’t looking “for the fashionable architects that everyone knows”, but people of his own fortysom...

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The project of 'Architecture collectibles': Solo Houses