Last Saturday I was flipping through channels on my TV and stopped on BBC World when I heard a voice with British accent talk about Gaudi's architecture and how desirable his houses and apartments were. I was fascinated by what they really showed me, it was "Favela Fantasy Gives Rise to Gaudi House". It was a piece on a house in a Sao Paulo Favela called by the neighbors "Casa de Pedra" or the House of Stone. Estevao Silva da Conceicao, the owner, has definitely mirrored Gaudi's work without even knowing the architect's name.
He started his house around a rose bush that he planted, in order to have a place to live and to protect the plant he built around it using organic shapes and found construction materials like pebbles, dishes and saucers; later on he used materials like clocks and typewriters, storing the materials before starting another part of the house. Today, two decades later after he started, a time frame comparable to the time that Gaudi took to build a project, we get a labyrinthine set of hallways, stairs and spaces that have been compared to Parc Guell (dioxmat's Flickr Photoset here) in Barcelona.
The house is still a work in progress, growing as his family grows and changes its needs.
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