Les cases d'Arne Jacobsen : el pati i el pavelló = Las casas de Arne Jacobsen : el patio y el pabellón = The houses of Arne Jacobsen : the courtyard and the pavilion

Text bilíngüe (castellà-català) Most of the publications on the Danish architect Arne Jacobsen are mainly dedicated on showing his extensive number of works, especially in the public sector, and the projects focused on the domestic area are left aside. However, most of his works are houses, of which he has designed over a hundred. The thesis focuses precisely on this second group of works which are more numerous but less dealt with by the critics. Attempting to inquire into the hypothesis that for Jacobsen "the source of all architecture seems to be the house, the world of domesticity, while the social field is understood as merely the natural extension of this", as Carles Marti explains. Or put in another way, by Josep Maria Sostres, "the starting point of all his experiences seems to be domestic architecture, factor which he prints in other works". Thus , the thesis is based on the belief that the house, quintessential space dedicated to live in, contains in itself the complexity of the major themes of architecture. In this sense,it is a useful vehicle to reach the formal and spatial mechanisms which are found in the base of the great works of all time, regardless of location and scale. The Rüthwen-Jürgensen house is a paradigmatic example to arrive at the concept that Jacobsen has of domesticity. His analysis allow researching how he faces the ancestral issue of the double reading of a home as a shelter and as a viewpoint, which is his formal response and which are the articulating spaces. In this sense, Jacobsen responds making the two spatial archetypes coexist: the courtyard and the pavilion; understanding the courtyard as an access area and the pavilion as an independent living area. From this point of view, the house would be the space comprised between the protection and projection, between the concave enclosure and the convex opening. The concave shape of the enclosure provides limitation, seclusion and protection, while the convex one of the living gives expansion, extension and infinity. The analysis of the Rüthwen-Jürgensen is complemented by a series of family homes which he designed during the same period (1954-1957). The twelve contemporary houses constitute a group in which the coexistence of the archetypes of the courtyard and pavilion can be extracted, in which they appear in more or less intensity. The Ved Bellevue Bugt group would be the representative of the courtyard houses , associated to the architectural principle of the precinct: