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| Fernando Higueras - Rascainfierno, Madrid, 1975-77- all images via Fernando Higueras Foundation (click hither to locomote directed) |
Rascainfierno - "Hellscraper ", is the piece of cake Architect Fernando Higueras's Madrid residence that is exclusively underground! The family was started inwards 1972 too would locomote his habitation too studio until his decease inwards 2008.
Higueras graduated equally an architect at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid inwards 1959, where he characterized his locomote distanciandose of rationalism too he closely followed the ideology of Frank Lloyd Wright. Thus his architecture promotes harmony betwixt human habitat too its natural surroundings, respecting the natural environment.
"This sentiment saved my life thirty-odd years ago, when my friend Francisco Nieva read my tarot, saw me inwards 3 years buried underground, alongside a cypress higher upward me, when for four times inwards a row the decease appeared inwards the cards. I insisted that this did non necessarily hateful that I would die. Then, it occurred to me this get-go hellscraper (then I projected a higher i for Ground Zero inwards New York), I planted a cypress, xviii meters high today, too I'm however here...alive." Fernando Higueras
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