Jose Juan Barba architecture - selected projects

Here, a baroque treatment of lighting has been used, by forming a “worm of light” parallel to the real which, at night, recalls the traditional lighting with torches.
The area, as a whole, is a space with a triangular ground plan or a powerful slope, composed by two different zones whose connection is not physical but only projectual or visual, as between them there exists an unevenness of ten metres formed by the orographic configuration of the nearby water channels.

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REFURBISHMENT OF THE SURROUNDINGS OF FERNANDO II DE LEÓN PARADOR.

The intervention takes place in the immediate surroundings of the touristic parador, in an area situated between the inn and the edge of the city. The intervention attempts to recover one of the degraded areas of the city. The environment of this one is fundamentally characterized by the presence of the remains of the castle presiding over the town, burnt to the ground during the war of Independence, and of which only remains the Torre del Caracol, a singular combination of the Gothic and Renaissance styles built in the sixteenth century.

The project uses as the principal architectural element the idea of platforms, created with different materials that receive various names: Winter Room, labyrinth…an use of spaces that, by signifying them, recover an old tradition of being raised, of approximating the sky, the clouds, the breeze and the opening towards the horizon, and emphasize the variation in natural sensations detached from the urban tangle.