The house on the cliff. Materiality and horizon: between smooth and striated. La Móra, Tarragona. Spain

Abstract

The development of this project aims to re-establish this primitive and sensitive connection in intimate relation with the landscape. Thus, Sverre Fehn and Jorn Utzon use conceptual mechanisms such as platforms and the horizon with which they design and work to initiate a relationship that involves idea-concept, language and design in relation to the landscape, revealing the respect and dialogue tied to it, giving the place quality and sensations linked with the visual domain on the immediate and territorial landscape. In a certain way, the project that is presented follows this idea, to turn the gaze to the horizon, housing and involving the users of the landscape to which they are linked, looking to the sea horizon that establishes juxtapositions while creating tension between the close and the distant, between the physical and ethereal, between the perceptive and haptic, between the conscious and unconscious, between the learnt and the experienced, searching for that contact but also that confrontation - as S. Fehn would say – with nature itself for the shaping and characterization of the place.