Elisa Valero
- Site : www.elisavalero.com
- Adresse : calle Belen 17, 18009 Granada SPAIN 18009 Granada
Spanish architect Elisa Valero is the first woman to win the Swiss Architectural Award, in 2018, an international architecture award, which promotes an architecture that is attentive to the current ethical, aesthetic and environmental issues, thus encouraging public debate. It is remarkable her research on new affordable low energy building systems.
My idea of architecture
I began my career in México with the restoration of Felix Candela’s work, ‘Los Manantiales’ and wrote my first book at the Academia de España in Rome. Since 1997 my workplace is a small office in front of The Alhambra, Granada. My ties to the art world began in my childhood and it is thus natural that my work involves interaction with other arts. I am interested in architecture rooted in the earth and in its own time. While it is no longer stylish to speak of serving, I believe that an architect’s work is a quintessential service intended to make people’s lives more agreeable. Architecture is no place for the nostalgic, it is a job for rebels.
Published books: LIGHT THE INTANGIBLE MATERIAL, published by RIBA London, 2015, Housing, 2017, La materia intangible, reflexiones sobre la luz en el proyecto de arquitectura 2004.Ocio peligroso, introducción al proyecto de arquitectura 2006. Espacios de aprendizaje 2006. La Universidad Laboral de Almería 1971-1974. 2008. Diccionario de la luz, 2008. Elisa Valero 1998-2008.
Full professor at Granada University and invited professor at the Academy of Mendrisio.Visiting professor at the Technische Universität Berlin Institute für ArchiteKtur, Facoltà di Architettura de la Università di Roma Tre, Facultad de Arquitectura de la UNAM México DF, the BTU Architecture School Cottbus, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture, Copenhagen, Escola da Cidade, Sao Paulo.
Leading researcher in the Research Projects “Urban Recycling: rezoning residential areas for sustainable development” Ministry of Education and Science R & D (2008-2011) “Recycling Neighborhoods; a sustainable alternative” a research Project for the General Office of Architecture and Housing of the Government of Andalusia. July 2007. “Experimental Applications of Energy-efficient Building Systems in Mediterranean Residential Settings”. Project involving the participation of the universities of Seville, Malaga, Granada and Jaen, 2011.Financed by Feder funds. Responsible for the research Group: Urban Recycling, Efficient Housing RNM909.
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Kindergarten in El Serrallo. Granada
The goal of this kindergarten is to favor the emotional and cognitive development that takes place during the first years of life through an architecture that fosters direct experience, pure action and free play as means of learning. To do so, it includes three elements considered highly relevant by pedagogues:
Non-place spaces. Opting for a flexibility that has less to do with movement than with versatility. Each class is an unlabeled room that can as easily be converted into a bedroom for nap time, or a theater stage. This is a matter of potentiality and interaction of the furnishings that allow spaces to be transformed and adapted to other uses.
Attention to scale. As principle, conventional windows are excluded. They make no sense for establishing a relation with outdoors, when we remember that the people at this school may only be seventy centimeters high, so wall openings have to be redesigned for them. It is important to pay particular attention to accessibility so that the children can be as autonomous as possible, with as little dependence on adults as possible.
Multisensory perception. Neurobiological researches have shown the significant roles of combined senses in the construction of knowledge. The playful character of the play area is reinforced with the presence of vividly colored geometric murals designed by artist Eduardo Barco.
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