this is not a portfolio by cristina ferres

THIS IS NOT A PORTFOLIO

THIS IS NOT A PORTFOLIO BECAUSE, MORE THAN A PORTFOLIO, IT IS MY STORY AND MY PERSONALITY PRINTED IN A BOOK.

LIKE IN THE “TRAHISION DES IMAGES” YOU MAY JUDGE ME BY THIS IMAGE, BUT THE REALREALITY HOLDS SO MUCH MORE THAT I’M EXHILARATED TO SHARE WITH THE WORLD.

I DARE YOU TO SAY: IS THIS JUST A PORTFOLIO?

The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a

representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture 'This is a pipe', I'd have been lying!

- René Magritte, 1929

| CRISTINA FERRÉS | UPC - ETSABARCELONA | 687856268 | [email protected] |

EAST ELEVATION

THIS INTERVENTION CONSISTED IN THE RESTORATION OF AN OLD BURGESE HOUSE IN THE WOODS OF COLLSEROLA, BARCELONA, TO MAKE A SEMI-LUXURY HOTEL OF IT.

THIS THIS WAS TO BE THE THIRD OF ITS HISTORY GIVEN UP TO 2 ENLARGEMENTS HAD BEEN MADE DURING ITS CENTURY OF LIFE. THE PROJECT TRIED TO MANTAIN THE SPIRIT OF THE BUILDING BY KEEPING ITS ORIGINAL MATERIALS. THE INNOVATION WAS TO APPLY NEW MATERIALS AND

CONSTRUCTIVE LOGICS TO DETERMINED SPOTS, ESPECIALLY THE STAIRCASE, WHICH USED TO BE MADE OF STONE AND IS SUBSTITUTED BY A CRYSTAL STRUCTURE AND A VERY LIGHT STAIR IN ORDER TO IRRIGATE WITH LIGHT THE CURRENTLY RATHER DARK INTERIOR OF THE HOUSE

AND TURN IT INTO THE NEURALGIC POINT AROUND WHICH ALL THE ACTIVITIES OF THE HOTEL TAKE PLACE.

this is not a portfolio by cristina ferres

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