Barefoot Architecture designing and building in fragile and complex contexts

Abstract

The qualifying master's degree for the professional practice of architecture, aims to provide complementary and advanced knowledge to the teachings received in the degree. In this context, the final master's work workshop: "Matter and Place" is developed in the Master of Architecture taught at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Málaga. It is a project, with a real location and an interaction between the project, technology and social, environmental, and economic spaces is
proposed. The main objective of the workshop is the design and construction of a 1:1 scale prototype, which can integrate all the phases of the process, from the first analysis of the place to the material definition and finally, the construction of the architectural element. The works were carried out in the "Charcha Suarez" Concerted Natural Reserve, located in Motril (Granada). A fragile and complex space, but one that was suitable for developing architectural designs based on bio-construction techniques with a fundamentally ecological approach.