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In this space you can read about different research projects developed by sculpture students and their professors at the Fine Arts College in CES Felipe II in Aranjuez. Here the Project CASA DE MADERA (Wodden house):

CASA DE MADERA (WOODEN HOUSE) is a research project developed by sculpture students from the third and the fourth year of Fine Arts in CES Felipe II (the third campus of the Universidad Complutense university). Casa de madera is funded by BECARA, an interior-decoration company, and it has the approval of Aranjuez’s town hall. The structure of this project, as well as the fact that is being developed in collaboration with a company, make the students evolve towards aspects that cannot be taught in class. At the same time, different results from those obtained in previous researches are made public. This project is to be considered as the next step of the practical work done in class; in other words, it is a university activity that goes on in real space and time.

It is an exhibition of ephemeral and public sculpture located in a park in Aranjuez. It is based on the building of a recycled-wooden house (wooden pallets, rubble wood…) that afterwards is torn down. The project ends with the burning (in a woodstove) of all the material in the same place where the house was previously located. The whole process is the own house; it comes back to its origin, it vanishes in the middle of a fire. Do and undo. Build, live, burn.

The architectural quality is linked to the space relations between the building and its location:
“if it may come the day when architecture wishes to get rid of its tiny gods and discover again its, for now, almost gone side as social maker, it had better been inspired by sculpture (and more specifically by the social plastic by Joseph Beuys.” Andreas Ruby, 1966

This research aims to create a conversation between architecture and sculpture and, at the same time, the street reality of, in this case, Aranjuez. Since the beginning of the 20^th century, the relation between architecture and sculpture has been very productive. Cubism, Constructivism and Expressionism are in the starting of very different space projects. When sculpture started being exhibited out of the museums and it abandoned its decorative characteristic, it was located in the urban space (Malevich, Brancusi, Oldenburg).

The building of our wooden house is in keeping with the primitive builders who were able to meet the two essential conditions of the great architecture: first, they used units of measurement based on their own body (the inch, the foot, etc.). They built their buildings “on a human scale, in harmony with the man”. Second, “since they let their instinct inspire right up to the use of right angle, axis, square and circle… [the primitive human] could not create in any other way than showing himself what he had created”. Le Corbusier

The temporary nature of the wooden house turns all the background information (videos, photos, drawings, models…) into the final and unique piece. This project was carried out March 23^rd in the parque de Pavía park, in front of CES Felipe II

The research group was led by Curro Ulzurrun and Marta Linaza. Miguel Sánchez Moñita was the graphic designer and Tomás Zarza was the coordinating editor. The students that helped in the project were: Nacho Aragón, Teresa Aramburu, Álvaro Baez, Esmeralda Balmaseda, Ángel Belinchón, Fernanda Caramazana, Ángela Carrasco, Patricia Cazorla, Isabel Fortes, Alfonso Leal, Alejandro Lii, Pilar López Baez, Rocío López, Mercedes Marín, Susana Santas, Amado Sanz, Noelia Serrano, Sergio Ruiz, Pablo Álvarez, Álvaro Velázquez, Paco Caballero.