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The Lab, 02

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Buscastell

At Buscastell, inland on Ibiza, a family house now stands in ruin. One or two photographs per room and a hand-drawn plan were enough to rebuild it in images.

Ibiza  ·  Family archive

01

A place that now exists only in memory.

The vegetation came in from above. The walls and the openings still hold, the inside does not: nothing in it still says what the rooms were for.

The Buscastell house today, in ruin, overgrown with vegetation.
The house today, Buscastell countryside, Ibiza

02

A few family photographs and a plan drawn by hand.

Family prints, scanned, often blurred, framed on people rather than on rooms. A hand-drawn plan gives the proportions and the sequence of the rooms, GPS coordinates place the site. No survey, no measurements, no scan of the building.

Scanned family photograph, the outside of the house.
A scanned print, the exterior
The plan of the house drawn by hand.
The plan, drawn from memory
The house in 1988, still intact.
1988, the last image of the house intact

03

Three minutes of images to recover the volume.

The volumes come from the plan, the light and the materials from the photographs. The result is not an architect's render: the camera moves at eye level, at the pace of someone walking through their own house.

Three minutes, from a handful of photographs