(SP)	Actar Arquitectura, which was founded in Barcelona in 1994, is intended as a place where many different areas of activity converge, together encompassing the extended field of contemporary architecture. In producing, willy-nilly, projects, buildings, books, and exhibitions, these architectural "players" demand a continuity and a reciprocity between every arena of intervention, be it theoretical or practical. In their housing projects, by invariably favouring relationships to form, the members of Actar seek to introduce appropriation strategies, in other words, they try to leave architecture open to what is not yet formulated. Paraloop was designed for the Parasite exhibition (Rotterdam, 2000) and comes across like a fable, speaking out against the typological approach to the architecture of housing. In order to be really "lived in", architecture must be dreamlike and atypical ("anti-typical"). Like this folded surface which wraps the multi-faceted nature of the programme, by connecting alien places, it must be conceived as a "landscape of landscapes".
Actar Arquitectura Gausa (Manuel) (1959), Gelpi (Oleguer) (1964), Pérez Arnal (Ignasi ) (1965), Raveau (Florence) (1965), Santos (Marc Aureli) (1960)
• Paraloop prototype, 2001