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<\/p>\nFrom the letters Joan Mir\u00f3 and architect Josep Llu\u00eds Sert exchanged over the years, we discovered that Mir\u00f3 \u2018dreamt of a large studio,\u2019 and that once his dream studio was finished, the painter got scared.<\/p>\n
Using that story as our starting point, we placed the studio at the core of our project, and we started thinking how our dream studio might be. We entrusted the project to an architecture firm. Our chosen architect spoke to us about light, about insulation, about temperature and energy consumption. They started out developing ideas from what we told them, and they made a series of drawings that we are showing here: floor plans, sections and elevations at a scale of 1:50 where one can find all sorts of details, new openings, double spaces, a water leak under control, insulation for the cold, ventilation, air conditioning, ham, and many other things.<\/p>\n
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Exhibition Shared Studios. Three Case Studies<\/em> \u00a9 Fundaci\u00f3 Joan Mir\u00f3. Photo: Oriol Clavera<\/p>\n We felt the need to make a model to study how light might move in our dreams, how it might infuse our work spaces and make it evident that a studio is a space of perpetual change, a space that is transformed by the shadow of a passing cloud, by the longer daylight hours in late spring or by the longer hours of dusk in the winter. And with all that information, we decided to start refurbishing.<\/p>\n The first thing we had made was a prefabricated MDF door. Through this door we can go in, go out, but it can also be closed. It is a two-way spying door since, as we all know, very often the person closest to us is the one we know the least. And if something does not quite suit us, unconsciously we start\u00a0 reshaping it, distorting our perception around it. That\u2019s what happened when we started believing that that combination of white and blue was from San Sebasti\u00e1n, or that blue and red were the colors of a club from Basel. Tailor-made hallucinations. The studio as a place where things are formed, but also de-formed, studio-mates included.\u00a0On the other hand, since we were running on a limited budget, we decided to build infinity. Our infinity allows us to isolate any given thing from its context, as in a space of constant transformation that creates images for eternity.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.fmirobcn.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/DSF1596-303x455.jpg\")
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