The famous Madrid architect, Alberto Campo Baeza, creates particularly elegant buildings that play with the special relationship between air and light, focusing on continuity with natural elements and landscape...
In the Gaspar house, there is a strong relationship between open and closed space, between white and light, between the built and the natural. The whiteness of the walls increases the homogeneity of the home, with a dual symmetry accentuated by the position of four lemon trees standing in the four corners of the courtyard.
In the Gaspar house Alberto Campo Baeza explicitly states his idea that architecture must inevitably take into account elements such as context, function and composition, but is exclusive or essential when it comes to form.
This is not true minimalism, connected with given stylistic prerogatives, but rather an essentiality capable of representing the idea on the basis of expressive poetics. This is what Baeza calls "mas con menos", "more with less": design centring around all that is human, with the complexity of human nature and culture; while the word "less" subtends the desire to express oneself in a few elements capable of expressing one's ideas. Variation is therefore preferred over variety. Campo Baeza makes this choice one of the dominant notes in his works, using light as his dominant expressive moment.
Laura Della Badia