Chat lines and social networks enable people to get to know one another from a distance according to their interests and passions: all this revolutionises how we socialise. Internet is transforming social relationships into virtual entities on the other. Both these phenomena can represent models for a new vision of architectural space. Via the web, the individual moves freely without the need to physically cross a territory. Thus the house will become the protagonist of the new Utopian scene and transform into space for work, leisure and life, into a public and private space and, therefore, become a total space, in which everything will be automated and everything is perfect: our bodies, our objects and our furnishings.

The shape of this 80 m2 house is organised into a grid spanning 3.0x3.0 metres, which occupies the entire plot. The pure, geometric shape (the parallelepiped) is simple, seeing that this, like all our other projects, is not based on the search for an architectural form. It is conceived exclusively as something changeable. What counts is the expression of a concept represented in its essence. The frame uses a system of automation to become a place of movement, a space in which the expression of movement entrusted to architectural elements generates a dimension of the indefinite, a space outside itself, a place in which total absence reigns. The walls slide along the steel floor tracks of the grid. They have also been designed as recycled, 6 cm-thick, insulated aluminium panels (with low environmental impact), which can modify the space and change the perception of it in a relatively short space of time, passing from total closure to an absolute, complete opening, and vice versa. The variation in the terms movement-space-time is determined by a computer placed in the centre of the house. Inside-outside, open-closed become extreme spatial conditions, inside which covered-open, open-non-covered spaces and open-closed spaces take shape. If the external envelope remains closed, the internal space can be modified to make it more flexible and adaptable to the various needs. The only fixed elements are the reinforced concrete platform

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Building or project owner : Anna Rita Emili

Architecture : altro_studio

Descriptions

Facade type and geometry (structure) : Steel structure and aluminium for facades

Kind of light creation : Temporary architecture based on the movement

Participatory architecture & urban interaction

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