Journalist Eva Morell publishes “Refugio”, intimate and pop, a universal desire to escape from noise and “get lost” in the forest
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I ignore where they will catch the reading of this article. Perhaps, in the midst of Jem, during a strangling summer day, it is possible that in a lively cafeteria in the city center during breakfast or in an attempt to disconnect from the noise, even if it is only a few minutes.
Everywhere, wherever it is, there is an image that probably comforts them: a small cabin lost in the forest, without coverage, with a fireplace and thick silence around. The salon, an isolated shelter, is a fantasy that may appear in the middle of the working day, the night of insomnia or the conversation that has already been exhausted. A place to escape, even mentally when we are not like a site.
Eva Morell knows well what we are talking about. He studied this desire to disappear in order to raise, return to essential subjects. At first he did this, sharing the images of cabin on social networks with a very simple text “Here, now”. He later directed this obsession at the Cabaña club, Newsletter Where every week he invites thousands of people to present asylum. And now publishes Shelter. History of wild boar (Debate), intimate, pop -eSSES and deeply human essays about those minimum constructions that, paradoxically, can contain everything. “Yes, the salon is a physical space, but, above all, this is a feeling,” he says.
The first shelters were the beginning of the common life of our species. Everything appeared in them: agriculture, democracy, philosophy
“The cabins have won me from a very early age, but I did not know until I became older,” he says. The author remembers the summer in the horseshoe, in the house of her family surrounded by pine forests, or trips through Sierra -de Malag, when some hut lost among the trees, causing a strange feeling of calm.
From maternal uterus to its own room
But why do houses attract us so much? Why will everything go there? For Morella, an answer is in our own essence. “C before birth, we already live a shelter: the body of our mother. We are used to this embrace, to this space. When we go to life, we feel homeless and look for places that return this sense of protection, ”he explains.
From the first prehistoric huts to Virginia Wulf’s own room, a person has always created a space where to protect himself, and not only from cold or rain, but also from the world. “The first shelters were the beginning of the common life of our species. Everything appeared in them: agriculture, democracy, philosophy, ”he says. The cab, as an idea, is much more than a wooden structure in the forest. This mood is a way to be in the world.
Paradoxically, Morell did not have the opportunity to visit most of the houses that he describes. “Many people think that I have stayed in all these cabins,” he says. “I hope. But many times they are in remote or remote places. What I do will document a lot, communicate with the owners and investigate every corner. ”
The cabins are also scared
IN ShelterMorell also explores the alarming reverse side of the cab. In pop culture, especially in horror films, these designs are not only synonyms for good, but also became the scenarios of the sinister. “Everything bad happens between the four walls, and the cinema managed to change the idea of protection. Suddenly the danger inside, this is not so, ”he thinks.
In addition to all fictional cases, one of the most striking texts that the text collects, and this really happened is the text of Unaabomber, the pseudonym of Ted Kachinsky, American mathematics, who sent pumping cards for almost two decades as a protest against technological progress and lived in an isolated Montana staff, from where he wrote his manifesto against technology. “His hut is a prototype of a pure perfect cab: small, self -sufficient, surrounded by forest. But inside she was full of chaos, darkness. I am fascinated by this duality, ”is recognized as the author.
The same thing happens in many films in which what seems idyllic becomes a nightmare. “According to the context, the cabin can be a fantasy or threat. That is why I was interested in telling two versions, ”he says.
Le Corbusier and salon as an architectural dream
Morell’s book is full of historical and cultural links, which gently accompany the reader through his pages, and which go from Toro to Doctor in AlaskaFrom Heidegger to Panki BrysterThe field but perhaps one of the most amazing stories is the story of Le Kabanon, a tiny hut, which the Swiss architect Le Corbusier, a pioneer of modern architecture, built as a position of observation, literally, from the house of architect Eilin Mountain on the French blue coast.
“This is a cabin that reflects her obsession with Gray House, which Le Corbusier wanted to buy several times,” the author explains. “Its windows are indicated directly to the house and even have mirrors that reflect his image, even if you are inside. This is anxious and exciting at the same time, ”says Morell, a visit, which in this case can make documentation.
The fact that such a character as Le Corbusier built a cabin is not much less, an exceptional case among famous architects. The cabins, says Morell, are also a game field for architects. She had the opportunity to talk with many of them from her journalistic work in the media, such as a magazine TravelerThe field “Architects have the opportunity in these small designs for applying the principles of their architecture in minimal dimensions. Sometimes this allows them to detect new forms of habitability, ”he notes.
Against the capitalism of disunity
Despite the fact that it is a symbol of purity, the cabins could not avoid being, partly capitalized by the logic of the market. In his almost encyclopedic desire, this also applies to Morell’s book. “I baptized this phenomenon as a“ boar, ”he admits. “Currently, I think that we live in a certain relationship between the natural environment. This occurs in the pandemic, when the construction of sustainable rural housing has increased, with good materials, the philosophy of intimacy … But it was many times behind large companies that decided to use this phenomenon that plant houses such as mushrooms throughout the country. ”
They sell you silence, the lack of Wi -fi, separation … and they accuse you as if it were a premium. We pay for what should be the main one: not to be affordable
Morell condemns to Shelter How capitalism turned the need for rest and separation into a luxurious product. “They sell you silence, the absence of Wi -fi, separation … and they accuse you, as if it were experience PremiumThis is amazing, because we pay for what should be the main: inaccessible. ”
Cabin to stay
But how Shelter This is not only a book about architecture or nature, but also mainly contributes to pleasure. To finish the conversation, we ask Morell to choose some of the houses that the book says to spend the season.
The author thought about this second and replied: “I probably would have chosen the house of Virginia Wulf, the house of the monk. This is a house that I like aesthetically, her garden is in love, and this is a fair size, so as not to overwhelm me. ”
Maybe this is the minimum that we can ask: find the cabin, real or imaginary, where we are not overloaded. A place where for some time we can stop being everything that we are and return to the essence. A pause in the middle of chaos. Shelter.
