Blocks  is a detachable and portable installation. It is made up of a wooden structure with a base of one square meter and a height of one meter, forty building blocks and a small ladder. The wooden structure serves both as a base or support, as well as a transport box for the pieces, so that the entire set can be easily disassembled and transported. 

 

The blocks are polyurethane reproductions made from a standard concrete block. By using polyurethane — a light and flexible material — to make the copies, they lose the utility that the original piece had, since they are neither hard nor resistant. At the same time, a certain confusion is created by totally transforming the physical properties of an element as common as a concrete block, thus attracting attention and fostering interaction. The rough and heavy concrete blocks become soft, light and pleasant to the touch, in a way that invites and favors their manipulation, while totally perverting their original use.

 

As a modular piece, it is an open work that can adopt different forms, inviting the viewer to imagine different possible options. Blocks is a basic and portable construction kit that offers endless possibilities for self-construction and redefinition of space, as a counterpoint to a standardized world, in which everything is already designed and built; in which our body has to adapt to pre-established structures. 

 

From a first design, the development of the project has given rise to a series of situations in which different people have spontaneously proposed alternative designs based on the limited physical conditions of the piece. From different conversations, I developed a series of drawings that collect these proposals, and that work as synthetic construction schemes.