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Housing the Multitude

Since the beginning of human history the need for a house has implied latent meanings, from the bare “looking for a shelter” to the fulfillment of complex spiritual and social needs. Historically, a number of inhabiting solutions were imagined for the coexistence of individuals and families in collective dwellings, in order to provide an improvement in resource sharing, built terrain and infrastructural optimization and waste limitation.

Completely dissimilar visions of communal life and conditions of social stratification lay behind this group of projects, but all of them share the search for a density which doesn’t restrict the private sphere yet allows, in different degrees, room for shared activities destined to enhance the life of the community.

Communal Living Around a Void: The Shabonos, Dwellings of the Yanomami Tribes

November 16, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 3 Comments

The shabonos (or yanos) are the traditional communal dwellings of the Yanomami tribes of Southern Venezuela and northern Brazil. They are circular … [Read more...]

The “Grand Hotel Babylon” by Adolf Loos (1923)

November 5, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

In 1923, Austrian and Czechoslovak architect Adolf Loos conceived the project for a terraced hotel of 700 rooms in Nice, the so-called "Grand Hotel … [Read more...]

Almost Metabolist: The New Sky Building #3 by Yoji Watanabe

October 23, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

The New Sky Building #3 is a 1972 project by Yoji Watanabe built in Higashi-Shinjuku, Tokyo. The building is made up of a central core, which … [Read more...]

“Habitat and the City”: Competition Entry by Neutelings, Wall, De Geyter and Roodbeen (1990)

July 13, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

In 1990 the "Competition Habitatge i Ciutat" (Housing and City) was promoted by the review Quaderns of Barcelona. The entry by W.J. Neutelings, A. … [Read more...]

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