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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.

A Settlement for Equals: The Town of Biskupin in Poland

March 21, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 4 Comments

In 1933, a team from Poznan University led by Polish archaeologist professor Józef Kostrzewski, started a series of excavations close to Lake Biskupin … [Read more...]

Learning from the Casbah: Horizontal Housing Units in Rome by Adalberto Libera

February 20, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 3 Comments

Adalberto Libera's "Unità orizzontale" (Horizontal Unit) in the Tuscolano neighborhood in Rome is an experimental housing complex built in the city … [Read more...]

A City Made of Rooms : The “Neue Stadt” of Köln (1961-1964) by O.M. Ungers

February 5, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 3 Comments

  In 1957 the urban planning department of Köln decided to develop a new satellite-town of 100,000 inhabitants (Neue-Stadt) in the northern … [Read more...]

Walls as Rooms /4 : The Hakka Tulou (Community Housing for Equals)

February 1, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli 4 Comments

Mostly built between the 12th and the 20th centuries, the Tulou are large fortified buildings representing a specific and traditional housing type of … [Read more...]

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