Domesticidad ‘entre rejas’: Proyecto de Rem Koolhaas/OMA para la prisión Panóptica en Arnhem (1979-1988)

Presentation on the doctoral thesis 'Domesticity Behind Bars' at the Doctoral Meetings of the Doctoral Programme in Advanced Architectural Projects, Department of Architectural Projects, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. In this lecture, aimed at doctoral students, important topics about the development of the thesis are introduced: choice of a...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The ‘dwelling hotel’ and the Feminist Transformation of Dutch Housing

This proposal reviews the 19th-century American feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) and her influence on Dutch housing during the early 20th century, particularly due to her book Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution (1898). Gilman deplored mistress-servant relations...

Prison' Housing vs Housing' Prison: A Comparative Analysis of De Koepel and the Oost III Projects by Koolhaas/OMA in the 1980s

This paper provides an overview on how small housing can be studied following an exploratory strategy, through a comparative analysis that brings together architectural theory and practice. !is research stems from the author’s doctoral thesis, Domesticity ‘Behind Bars’, and its subsequent development as a postdoctoral project, ‘Unexpected’...

‘Unexpected’ Domesticity: The Oost III Housing Project in IJ-plein Amsterdam Urban Plan by Rem Koolhaas/OMA (1980-1988)

In Amsterdam Nord, on the banks of the IJ, is located IJ-plein, the urban plan designed and built between 1980 and 1988, by a team led by Rem Koolhaas and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture. From this extensive urban plan, which was devoted entirely to social housing and included education and leisure programmes, this research draws...

Book Review: Pasados-presentes para un contexto afectivo: Catálogo de la exposición

Pasados-presentes para un contexto afectivo: Catálogo de la exposición. Conjuntos empáticos. Serie: Inéditos. Madrid, España, Fundación Montemadrid 2021. ISBN: 978-84-09-30740-1

“Unexpected” domesticity: Housing design of OMA’s IJ-plein masterplan project in Amsterdam

This article focuses on the OMA’s IJ-plein master plan located on a former shipping wharf in Amsterdam North (1980-1988). Particularly in the domesticity of the different dwellings, which were designed by six other offices, including the one by Koolhaas, and were 100% for social housing. This project is considered one of the turning points of...

Reflexiones en torno a la arquitectura del aislamiento: Vivienda y prisión

Mi investigación se basa en la idea de que la noción de domesticidad es a la vez complementaria y opuesta a la vivienda de la modernidad. En este sentido, la tesis examina en qué medida incluir esta noción en el análisis de la arquitectura vivienda puede desestabilizar sus bases. Demostrando que el estudio de la domesticidad puede ser útil para...

The panopticon prison as a “social condenser”: The study of the project for De Koepel prison by Rem Koolhaas/OMA (1979–1988)

Rem Koolhaas/OMA carried out the study for De Koepel prison throughout a decade (1979–1988). However, only its initial stages (1979–1980) were disclosed and have been investigated. The hypothesis presented in this article suggests that Koolhaas implemented his —then— recent thesis present in Delirious New York (1978) on “life in the metropolis”...

Inhabiting Heterotopia: The Begijnhoven

Doctoral research by the author published in the book PhD CULT, which includes the contributions of doctoral students and doctors who contributed around the Doctoral Meetings (formerly PhDfest), a training activity of the PD in Advanced Architectural Projects, to which add more general reflections on doctoral research.

The Begijnhoven: Analysis of Other Hybrid Types in the Medieval City

This research explores the paradoxes of domesticity in the Begijnhof. These architectural ensembles can be analysed as a different medieval hybrid type, as cities in their own right as well as cities within cities. They emerged in the European medieval cities in the thirteenth century and were inhabited by the Beguines for almost eight centuries...

Domesticity ‘Behind Bars’: Project by Rem Koolhaas/OMA for the Renovation of a Panopticon Prison in Arnhem

This article focuses on the project for the renovation of a Panopticon prison in Arnhem, the Netherlands (1979–1980), designed by Rem Koolhaas/OMA. The analysis of its reception shows that, despite being well known, it has been little studied and discussed, and although it was not built, it had an impact on prison architecture. It seems...