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You are before the reference platform of a virtual informative project carried out by students of 1st year of the Technical School of Architecture of the University of A Coruña, about the architectural work Domus Aurea, by Alberto Campo Baeza. In this blog you can find a rigorous conceptual analysis of it carefully organized according to the categories you can see in the top menu. These categories are chosen with the aim of facilitating navigation. Thus, you can go to the section that most interests you if that is your desire, and we hope you find the information you require without complications on our platform, but let us recommend that you take your time to browse the blog. We hope that its reading will help you achieve a global vision of the aforementioned building that satisfies your curiosity or, in case you need to get an understanding of the piece richer in details, that supposes a solid foundation for a first approach.

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Domus Aurea: Analysis based on artistic movement

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Campo Baeza's work can be framed, given the historical moment of its execution and its formal characteristics, as contemporary architecture strongly influenced by the modern movement. Thus, it is seen as a constant throughout his work, and especially in the Domus Aurea, the influence of the twentieth-century architect Luis Barragán and his style tending towards minimalism and debtor of the Bauhaus and European avant-garde. Among the characteristics of his work that Baeza subsequently applied, resources such as his game of plans and the use of simple forms and lines to delimit large and unloaded spaces are highlighted. Thus, many of the features of the aforementioned artistic movement in the Domus Aurea can be identified: Destruction of the architectural box: Mechanization and standardization: Methodology: Modern language: Sources: campobaeza.com Planreforma.com
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The author: Alberto Campo Baeza

Alberto Campo Baeza is a renowned Spanish architect. Among his works we can find buildings such as those you can see in the instagram account inserted below: Ver esta publicación en Instagram . y digo si me lio Una publicación compartida de Ｄｏｍｕｓａｕｒｅａ (@_domusaurea) el 8 Ene, 2020 a las 11:22 PST Sources: campobaeza.com Wikipedia
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Structural analysis

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The interior decoration made by the Mexina architect Gilberto L Rodriguez is luxurious, with an interior lift, a swimming pool and fully equipped rooms. Also, it has a  pool located on the terrace of the last floor of the house, where a rectangular frame from with the emblematic Sierra Madre is seen. The house has a clear symmetry. The visitor enters through a  courtyard with an entrance hall. Inside the space flows between the three floors generating a large room; "a generous central space, sum of two vertical double-height spaces that, when joined vertically displaced, create a feeling of great amplitude. All spaces of the house converge in that central space." - Alberto Campo Baeza     The name comes from the golden light that soaks the entire house from the reflection generated by a large golden wall on the upper floor. It is a tribute to the Mexican architect Luis Barragán who created, with the German painter Mathias Goeritz, similar golden wa
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