Casa Cerro: site, house, home
- Submitting institution
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Middlesex University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 1478
- Type
- T - Other
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- Building
- Open access status
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- Month
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- Year
- 2017
- URL
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http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/31234/
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Casa Cerro (Hill House) advocates a phenomenological approach to interior design and architecture that results in form that follows feeling (Fern’s neologism). The project exemplifies an ethos, developed through Fern’s extensive practice, that aligns with Gernot Böhmes’s call for ‘aesthetics of atmospheres’ to replace the traditionally judgmental aesthetics of form, in order to instill a particular and appropriate essence of place.
Casa Cerro is a new build house located in the Córdoba province of Andalusia. The project gave Fern the opportunity as a designer, to design a stand-alone house in its entirety for the first time. The unique design of the building evolved from the inside out and was directed and informed primarily by the anticipated experience of the place, rather than through visual form and function.
On the originally purchased site, was an un-restorable ruin set within ten thousand square meters of land, surrounded by olive trees and overlooking the largest lake in Andalusia and the nearest village of Iznájar, a small, ‘white village’. The village is typically Andalusian in character and vernacular.
The architectural ambition was to create a building that would integrate sensitively within its immediate landscape and be inspired by the traditional local context. In realization, the house is imbued with a contemporary feel through its understatement, although dialectic in resolution, as Casa Cerro respects the historical and cultural essence of the old house, being instilled with the memory and traces of its precedent.
The house was featured in volume 4 of International Journal of Interior Architecture and Spatial Design – Material Vocabularies issue, in an article entitled, ‘Casa Cerro: Site, House, Home – A Contextual Material Analysis in Andalusia.’
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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