BLANCA MUNT
Sòl i Sostre
30 November - 6 December 2020
30 November - 6 December 2020
The need to live under a roof and somehow be protected, has existed since the advent of human beings. It is something inherent in our condition and therefore often limits our way of living, inhabiting and understanding spaces and everything around them. Living under a roof always means living on a floor. We have never had trouble appropriating land and becoming owners, because the will to live often becomes a necessity and therefore a yearning for a right.
Sòl i sostre focuses in a conceptual way on the self-construction processes that took place around the 50s and 60s in the neighborhood of Les Planes, Barcelona. These constructions were erected by immigrants from Spain who came to work and families from Barcelona who left from neighborhoods such as El Carmel, La Perona or Montjuïc.
Due to the law of land and roof, it could be said that the neighborhood was created indirectly. They could not demolish the houses, if after 48 hours they already had a roof, so the families often built at night and in communities under precarious conditions. These families settled in legal loopholes, where no one could move them, and built with cheap materials without any apparent order, simply for survival instinct. These constructions exposed in their basic structure, have been modeled and conditioned under the influence of time.
The structure of this project is based on three parts:
·Analog scultoric pictures with bricks taken from Las Planas
·Night pictures of the construction of Las Planas
·Texts extracted from the Ley de 12 de mayo de 1956 sobre régimen del suelo y ordenación urbana (Law regarding the Land and Urban Development Regime from 12 May 1956)














