Step 1:

To start with, I will choose a place which makes me feel great! I am talking about my house garden, small but cosy. I really like how it is built and how it is decorated, it is full of nature and combines a traditional with a modern style, it brings me good memories from my childhood.

My home is located in Torre en Conil (Betera) just 15 minutes away from Valencia and I really like this place.

Q1. Why did you chose this place?

The reason why I have chosen this place is because it transmits me a lot of great feelings, since I was little I used to play in the backyard with my brothers and have fun without electronic devices. Another thing that makes it very important for me is it’s structure and how it is divided, the terrace with sofas an a dinning table are located in a different level than the grass and the pool, in my opinion the arquitect had a great idea so our parents could look after us from a higher perspective. I really apreciated this area during COVID. I was so lucky to have the oportunity to breath fresh air and do some outdoor activities,

Q2 What do you think makes you be at ease?

What really makes me feel confortable is that there are not any annoying noises, if you go out in the early morning you could listen to the birds wistles because it is no common to hear traffic or cars biping. Annother thing which relaxes me is whatching the sunset froom the roof just above the garden, I hope one day my mother lets me desing something in the top part.

Q3 Is there any disruptive element?

I would not say there are any disruptive elements, but the only issue I can find is that there is a space misused located in the left wing of the house (we call it the COVID area) but for the rest I think it is perfect.

The reason why we call it COVID AREA is because when some of us had covid it was like his private terrace to have a bit of fresh air.

Q4. Do you think you’d feel the same way in another space right now?

The feeling that transmits me this place is exceptional. According to feelings there are some spaces where I feel really confortable and relaxed, like in a boat in the middle of the sea or hiking in the mountain. The only distiction is that my garden brings me a lot of good memories from my childhood.

Q5. Do you think that the particular conditions of this space may influence its occupants? How?

Yes, of course. According to weather conditions the landscape can change the colours reflected in the pool of the sky, a cold breez in summer which makes you feel like in winter, the sound of the rain in the flor and the wooden smell it leaves a storm. That is why the ocupants could be influenced, if it is sunny and hot you can have a bath and if it is rainny you can stay under the rooftop watching the storm or a movie.

Q6. Would you change anything?

As I said in a previous quiestion, I think this place is perfect but if I had to do an update it would be in the leftside terrace, what I would do is to lower the floor until the level of the basement to do a british courtyard. Similar to the one in the picture updated on the left side.

Step 2

Reflections from the text:

One of the things that caught my attention from the text was the comparison between arquitecture and a human body. In my opinion this reference takes different perspectives, one of the is related between the creator and the product as an arquitect is viewed like a god of it’s construction. The other thing related with the project and the body are it´s internal structures in a building the foundations and in a body the bones.

As the author sais there are a lot of factors that affects to the essence of one place, that is why a beautifull place can turns into an awful one and the other way arroud. Sound, temperature, atmospheric conditions… are very importantant to consider the essence of a place.

That is why arquitecture is not only a profession were the aiquitect has to build a building with a nice structure, it needs to take into account it´s enviroment which is part of it´s soul