Architects Directory 2010: Jose Ulloa Davet & Delphine Ding

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PROFILE

Chilean Jose Ulloa Davet and Swiss-trained Delphine Ding, both in their early 30s, have collaborated since 2007. Dividing their time between Barcelona, Chile and Switzerland, their research interests have taken in the Costa Brave and teaching stints at Barcelona's ELISAVA design school. Their first major built work, Metamorphosis of a Wooden House, was a radical reconstruction of a coastal retreat that’s currently being used to represent Chile at Shanghai Expo 2010. 'Architecture is the formalization of multiple layers of conceptualisation, filtered and ordered according to their own condition and hierarchy,' the architects say, explaining that their work ‘strives to combine function and poetry into an unrepeatable space’.

Temporary Social Cells for Emergency

'Wallpaper* contacted us a few days after the earthquake in Chile,' says Davet, 'Chile needed 400,000 emergency housing, so we wanted to respond to the catastrophe.' Temporary Social Cells builds upon the ad hoc social organisations that spontaneously sprouted immediately following the catastrophe. 'Groups of families organized themselves in emergency tasks, cooking in common kitchens, going fishing in groups, taking care of children, security issues, finding firewood and so on.' The TSC is intended as a temporary experience, a hostel for up to seven families constructed from basic units that can be combined, arranged and scattered around any available space. Living cells are paired with cells for common uses, with bathrooms, kitchen, dining room and living room. Low cost, easily deployable and, crucially, able to preserve social structures in a time of crisis, the TSC is, we think, poetic and functional.

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