ÍNSULA; DISOCIACIÓN INTERNA Islands: internal dissociation. Hablamos de una pequeña cabina, We refer to a little cabin, almost for in- prácticamente de uso individual, donde dividual use, where someone could se pudiera dormir, aislarse para escu- sleep, or be comfortably isolated to lis- char o practicar música, leer, concen- ten to play music, reading, or just focus- trarse; menos que una habitación, un ing. Smaller than a bedroom but large lugar de posición, nido, madriguera. enough to be a positioning place, a nest, a den. This element would be sim- Asimilable a una alcoba (del árabe el- ilar to an alcove (from the arabic term caut), o mejor dicho, una isla colocada ‘elcaut’), or to an island located in a en un espacio de mayores dimensiones. greater room. This island would host the Una ínsula alojaría la extensión discre- occasional extension of the personal (or cional del espacio personal, y/o íntimo intimate) space among the private so- sobre el espacio social privado. Con el cial space. Equipped with a maximum máximo nivel de aislamiento, acústica y insulation level, and acoustically and térmicamente hermético, eventualmen- thermally hermetic, it could be occa- te visual, permitiría usos y adaptaciones sionally hidden or shown. It could make en principio incompatibles. Un espacio way for a wide range of uses and, adapt- reducido, que el uso convertiría en lugar, ing to conditions that could initially seem una cámara climatizada que, sin lugar a incompatible, when thinking about or- dudas, autorizaría un confort sostenible ganizing a living unit. en un espacio sensiblemente mayor. This reduced space could become a “place”, by using it: a heated/cooled chamber that, without any doubts, Fig.2. Fontenas, PAN 14. Un esquema suficientemente ex-would give place to sustainable comfort plícito de vivienda disociada asimétricamente en dos en- tidades. inside a room of much greater dimen - Dissociated apartment: an explicit example of an asym- metric division. sions. A sustainability reason. 8148t