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Ricardo Bofill, House in Mont-Ras, Girona, Spain, 1973 (via subtilitas)

Ricardo Bofill, Studies for Ideal Cities, c. 1980 (via archiveofaffinities)

Ricardo Bofill, Maritxell Sanctuary, Canillo, Andorra, 1978 (via cjwho)

'On the evening of a popular holiday in 1972 the ancient Romanesque Sanctuary caught fire and was destroyed. The building complex were left in blackened ruins, survived only by the original apse and vaulting over the altar and laterday bell-tower.'

Ricardo Bofill, House for the Architect’s Parents, Girona, Spain, 1975 (via subtilitas)

Ricardo Bofill, El Castillo de Kafka, Barcelona, Spain, 1968 (via skibinskipedia; adclassics)

"Bofill and his team employed two equations that would lead to the volumetric design of Kafka Castle. The first equation generated the number of room capsules that plug into the stair towers. While the second equation determined the height of each spiral progression around the stair towers.  Aside from the prefabricated elements, the two equations provided a non standardized design based solely off a generative process that created volumetric overlapping and close proximal juxtapositions that begin to create interior voids within the cubic composition. The pods, or cubes, are small prefabricated units that because of their size and scale to the overall organizational system only contain one room or space allowing for each pod to have a direct connection to the centralized stair tower. The cubes are designed in such a manner that each cube contains one important spatial element to the overall construction of the apartment units. One cube may have a bathroom-bedroom or they may have a living room-dining room combination. The apartments are then created through the combination of the different units that are all connected through various level changes within the interior of the units."

Ricardo Bofill, La Muralla Roja, Calpe, Spain, 1973 (via enochliew)