Churruca reframes Madrid housing as a compact socioplastic laboratory where plan, threshold and everyday inhabitation converge.

Churruca (Madrid, 2016) condenses the metropolitan dwelling into a precise field of domestic intelligence, where architectural drawing and inhabited image operate as complementary forms of knowledge. The plan reveals a compact interior calibrated through thresholds, furniture, circulation and bodily scale, while the monochrome photograph discloses its lived counterpoint: a desk, a bag, a chair and a luminous working corner framed by darkened doors. This tension between measured abstraction and atmospheric residue converts the apartment into a socioplastic micro-laboratory, not merely a residence but a device for observing how urban subjects negotiate privacy, labour, storage and perception within reduced space. As a case study in Madrid living spaces, Churruca exemplifies a broader architectural proposition: contemporary domesticity is no longer defined by size or typology alone, but by the intensity with which objects, habits and visual axes organise everyday agency. Its significance lies in transforming the modest urban interior into an epistemic instrument, where the smallest room becomes a cartography of metropolitan life. Lloveras, A. (2017) ‘CHURRUCA’, Socioplastics, 3 January. Available at: https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2020/01/churruca.html (Accessed: 26 April 2026).

Expanded Project Nodes * Transdisciplinary Praxis

Architectural Metabolism & Systemic Urbanism

• MVRDV Legacy: Formative involvement in the Mirador Building (Madrid) and UPV Munich. Documentation of these vertical urban systems is found in Arquitectura Viva, El Croquis 111, and the US Modernist Archive.

• Urban Dissensus: Spatial research through the 11 Plazas (Madrid) competition and sustainable regeneration models like Manzana Verde (Málaga).

• Institutional Record: Comprehensive author record and publications archived at COAM (Colegio de Arquitectos de Madrid) and Revista Arquitectura n353.

Relational Art & Curatorial Ecosystems

• Socioplastics & LAPIEZA: Platforms for dissolving boundaries between the observer and the system. Explored through Relational Theory in Revista Replicante and the performance “Doble Cara” via Redescena.

• Context as Readymade: Site-specific interventions at the Lapidarium Museum and Kulturistra (Croatia), plus urban interventions documented by El País.

• Collaborative Meshes: Research and residencies at Nomad AIR, Studio Fredrik Lund, and the Future Utopia Community.

Global Dissensus & Sovereign Pedagogy (2024)

• Lagos Biennial: Participant profile and metabolic research on textile waste: Lagos Biennial Profile, RE-(T)eXhile Research, and environmental critiques in The Guardian Nigeria and Medium.

• Textile Talks Art: International discourse at Contextile 2024 (Portugal).

• Post-History & Authority: External research at UAM (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) and formal tracking via ORCID Identification. Institutional record noted in the AC/E Memoria 2024.

Visual & Network Distribution

• Film & Media Archives: Video nodes at LAPIEZA Film Archives (including specific nodes GIfpxOM_6Ng and hQHwxwjpuR0) and TOMOTOFILMS.

• Portfolio & Feeds: Visual praxis on Cargo Collective, Instagram, X (Twitter), and Facebook (Socioplastics).

• Professional Identity: Nodes on LinkedIn and Blogger.

Nodal Profile (Synthetic Overview) Transdisciplinary Praxis

Anto Lloveras | Transdisciplinary Praxis Anto Lloveras (b. 1975) is a Spanish architect and visual researcher whose work navigates the friction between urban metabolism, systemic architecture, and relational art. From his early involvement in landmark projects like the Mirador Building (MVRDV) to his current focus on sovereign pedagogy and post-autonomous spatial research, Lloveras has developed a "mesh-based" methodology. Through platforms like Socioplastics and LAPIEZA, he dissolves the boundaries between curatorial ecosystems and urban intervention.

Nodal Profile (Synthetic Overview)

CARTOGRAPHY OF CREDITS & REFERENCES (BASE / INVERSE ORDER) 

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CARTOGRAPHY OF CREDITS & REFERENCES (BASE / INVERSE ORDER)

2024 | Global Dissensus & Metabolism

• Contextile 2024 / Textile Talks Art (Portugal): https://contextile.pt/en/textile_talks_art_2024/

• Lagos Biennial / Participant Profile: https://lagos-biennial.org/lb-2024/2024-participants/

• RE-(T)eXhile / Textile Waste Research: https://re-texhile.thestratum.org/lagos/

• Guardian Nigeria / Environmental Implications: https://guardian.ng/art/artists-illuminate-environmental-implications-of-textile-waste-at-the-refuge/

• AC/E / Institutional Curatorial Record: https://www.accioncultural.es/media/ebooks/Memoria2024/MemoriaACE2024.pdf

• Medium / Architectural Refugia Analysis: https://medium.com/@oluwapelumishemu3l/the-4th-lagos-biennial-does-better-at-uncovering-the-past-than-pushing-the-present-fa11de732011

2023–2011 | Post-Disciplinary & Authority Nodes

• Revista Replicante / Relational Theory (Mexico): https://revistareplicante.com/lapieza-relational-art-series/

• Kulturistra / Exhibition Review (Croatia): https://kulturistra.hr/2014/09/izlozba-ante-lloverasa-lemon-kiss-u-puli/

• El País / Urban Interventions (Spain): https://elpais.com/diario/2011/09/03/viajero/1315084087_850215.html

• Redescena / "Doble Cara" Performance: https://www.redescena.net/espectaculo/40899/doble-cara

• ORCID / Research Identification: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-9820-3319

• UAM / Post-History External Research: https://postoryuam.wordpress.com/investigadores-externos/

• Lapidarium Museum / Context as Readymade: http://www.muzej-lapidarium.hr/anto-lloveras-context-as-readymade-unstable-installation-series/

• Future Utopia / Systemic Pedagogies: https://www.futureutopiacommunitykey.org/anto-lloveras/

• Nomad AIR / Relational Art Residencies: https://www.nomadair.org/2016/02/05/anto-lloveras/

• Studio Fredrik Lund / Collaborative Research: https://studiofredriklund.blogspot.com/2015

2018–2001 | Architectural Legacy & Urban Systems

• COAM / Author Record & Publications: https://www.coam.org/es/fundacion/biblioteca/revista-arquitectura-coam/listado-revista-arquitectura-autores?ides=L

• 11 Plazas / Madrid Urban Dissensus: https://www.coam.org/media/Default%20Files/servicios/concursos/concursos_ocam/2017_propuestas/plazas/AUTORES_11plazas.pdf

• Manzana Verde / Sustainable Urbanism Málaga: https://www.coam.org/concursos/servicios-concursos-concursos-ocam-plan-especial-reforma-interior-manzana-verde-sunc-r-p-2-a-pgou/

• MVRDV Project Archive (Mirador): https://www.mvrdv.com/projects/135/mirador

• Arquitectura Viva / Project Credits: https://arquitecturaviva.com/obras/edificio-mirador-madrid

• UPV Munich / Spatial Systems: https://www.mvrdv.com/projects/144/upv-munich

• US Modernist / International Archive: https://www.usmodernist.org/AJ/A-2005-11.pdf

• El Croquis 111 / Digital Archive: https://es.scribd.com/document/421907601/El-Croquis-111-MVRDV-1997-2002-pdf

• Revista Arquitectura n353 / Research: https://www.coam.org/es/fundacion/biblioteca/revista-arquitectura-100-anios/etapa-1987-1990/revista-arquitectura-n353-Tercer%20trimestre-2008

Network & Ecosystem Distribution

• Cargo Collective / Visual Portfolio: https://cargocollective.com/antolloveras/

• Instagram / Visual Feed: https://www.instagram.com/antolloveras

• LinkedIn / Professional Mesh: https://es.linkedin.com/in/anto-lloveras-0012528a

• Facebook / Socioplastics Platform: https://www.facebook.com/SOCIOPLASTICS

• Blogger / Research Profile: https://www.blogger.com/profile/05627392793337094588

• YouTube / LAPIEZA Film Archives: https://www.youtube.com/@LAPIEZALAPIEZA/videos

• YouTube / TOMOTOFILMS: https://www.youtube.com/TOMOTOFILMS

• X / Research Updates: https://x.com/antolloveras

Clips & Media Documentation

• LAPIEZA Video Node 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIfpxOM_6Ng

• LAPIEZA Video Node 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQHwxwjpuR0

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