While it is set apart from the world, it remains in contact with it. Without isolating, he establishes the necessary distance to create a space where he could come to terms with himself. Abstract spaces are removed and invalidated by silence. When we walk through them we can perceive the importance of each one of them, and we begin to recognize the strong significance the designer assigned them. Walls, low partitions, and planes are articulated throughout the space with liberty and intention, losing their simple character.
Sunlight is partially, tenuously, or fully projected.
It illuminates the interior colors, changing like a magic kaleidoscope through the hours of the day. Pure stairways, just steps, invite us to more intimate levels. Poetry Drawn from Life Barragan offers architecture a poetic vision. His work is divorced from conventional lines and develops a language in which he balances a delicate harmonious relationship between his elements. He permits himself to think and reflect critically about society.