The work Adosados 3 represents a 12 story building with four houses per floor, located on an avenue and sharing the patio with the side buildings.
The type of building chosen can be an example of the many that close streets and adjoin each other. Despite this generality, the choice of the model is due to the fact that I lived in this building, 3ºC at 154 Avenida das Fontiñas in Lugo, for three years. I could have chosen a model that would have been representative of this type of construction, but my interest was also focused on discovering its interior. Through this building that I know, and that has served as a reference for many of my works, I can tell about my experiences and those of others. A special memory of the neighbor across the street, the noise from the neighbors above, the TV next door; all sleeping.
Townhouses 3 is perhaps the culmination of my work in recent years. The ability to design a building, after creating so many isolated rooms. The great project that one must finally face. Semi-detached houses 3 concentrates the knowledge developed in the series building rest, asepsis, semi-detached houses.
The bed, a total of 27 (13 white and 14 in different colors), is the piece of furniture through which the interior of the building is discovered. Repeated on each of the floors, they start from the first floor where they all appear, to go up, suspended by elastics, to each of the remaining levels, a bed on each floor. The size and location of these beds in bedrooms respond to different combinations, in which surface, bed, door and window dialogue, always seeking and questioning rest.
The rubbers that suspend these beds have a place of confluence, the level marked with an X serves, in the upper and lower part of the building, to hold the rubbers. This space represents the false ceilings and hidden places of the houses. Garages are also represented, as level -1, entrance as 0, +1 for storage rooms, +2 for ceiling and roof, and 12 floors of houses. The corresponding floors, elevators, stairs, partitions, rooms, windows, etc. are labeled on each of these levels. This labeling is done in a wide range of colors -orange for the walls, red for the common areas, blue for the windows, gray for the patios, etc.- on a white background.
Monica Alonso, 1997