Author, as appears in the article.: Ródenas García J.

Department: Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura

URV's Author/s: Rodenas García, Juan Fernando

Keywords: Village Vernacular architecture Urbanism Landscape Antonio bonet

Abstract: The SOS Children's Village at Sant Feliu de Codines in Barcelona (1970), the Hifrensa village (completed), and the Prat I and II urban development plans (not completed) were the final major urban complexes designed by Antonio Bonet (not counting his projects for the tourist sector). At SOS, Bonet designed a residential ensemble for orphaned children comprising communal educational and sporting facilities, by recreating, on a human scale, the atmosphere of the villages depicted in the photographs published in issue 18 (1935) of the GATEPAC magazine AC Documentos de Actividad Contemporánea, which was dedicated to popular architecture. Whitewashed pavilions, vaults, porches, patios, walls and stone platforms arranged like agricultural terraces were the features by which he constructed the landscape of a modern village but with old-fashioned forms. In this paper we analyse this unprecedented work, which, although it was never constructed, expresses the architect's singular interpretation of the countryside and habitability conditions for orphans. Moreover, this work concentrates the architect's experience as an experienced urbanist who in the 1970s challenged his fundamental theoretical creed, the Athens Charter, from a historical perspective.

Thematic Areas: Visual arts and performing arts Urban studies Human geography and urban studies History Geography, planning and development Ciencias sociales Ciencias humanas Art and art history Architecture

licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

ISSN: 23413050

Author's mail: juanfernando.rodenas@urv.cat

Author identifier: 0000-0001-8661-9901

Record's date: 2023-04-15

Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Link to the original source: https://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/VLC/article/view/7144

Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/

Papper original source: Vlc Arquitectura-Research Journal. 5 (1): 1-31

APA: Ródenas García J. (2018). El Último Urbanismo de Antonio Bonet: el poblado SOS (1970) [The last urban development project by Antonio Bonet: the SOS village (1970)]. Vlc Arquitectura-Research Journal, 5(1), 1-31. DOI: 10.4995/vlc.2018.7144

Article's DOI: 10.4995/vlc.2018.7144

Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Journal publication year: 2018

Publication Type: Journal Publications