When in the city of Olot, as part of “The artist of the month” organized by the Friends of Olot with the collaboration of the Regional Museum of la Garrotxa and the La Caixa Foundation, we are invited to participate in creating an art installation. We are motivated to be part of the circle of the arts from our discipline. We offer a conceptual model of the city. This imaginary city is crossed by nature under the slogan, “the imaginary city is the one that begins where the landscape continues”.

Build a house, with your own hands, to have a roof again after an earthquake, in a hot and humid climate.
A central piece with cross ventilation where exterior and interior space are in continuity and the essential water tank creates the porch. On both sides the rooms with two bedrooms, a bathroom and a kitchen complete the protection and serve the living space.

In the RCR Summer Workshop on Landscape and Architecture, this exercise is proposed to shed light on the architecture museum’s controversial, thorny and always “dead-end” topic (in this case, Catalan architecture). Because we already know that architecture is not photography but lived space. Therefore, it proposes to give life to the countless “rooms” of the museum of Catalan architecture in a territorial network structured in different layers (a situation, period, theme…) that identifies and highlights them, and show them homogeneously, from the architectural spaces and with the support of the network of collegiate headquarters and sub-headquarters, while enjoying and excelling at the resources available to them.