THE NON-BUILT

Since their earliest projects, Cadaval & Solà-Morales’s work has captured our attention because of the novelty of their language. Such originality may derive from the fact that their focus is not so much on mass or volume but in the spaces in between. And their interest in the intermediate spaces is not because of its topological condition of being neither interior nor exterior, but because those are the spaces where people gather. Like most architects, Cadaval & Solà-Morales started by designing private houses. Even in those private commissions, the newness of their proposals can mainly be found in the social and common spaces of residential life. The ensuing mass and volume is therefore a way to give shape to meeting spaces.
Exactly the same can be said when they moved towards a more collective scale of living and also to public scale projects. Their interest is in the spaces in between—between the natural and the artificial, between the private and the public— looking to find new expressions and definitions for the spaces where people come together.