Pandemos: ‘in’ space, ‘between’ space and ‘net’ space

Abstract

The essay proposes, starting from the pandemic emergency, considerations sub specie architecuræ with an interscalar character: the ‘contained’ dimension of the house taken as a space of ‘interiority’ which — like the Bau (den) of Kafka’s book — welcomes and exiles its inhabitants rejecting the ‘enemy’ that spreads in space from the boundless dimension of ‘externality’. The condition denies individuals the encounter with the community that takes place through a third virtual space, called the ‘net’. Through dystopian representations, showing Foucaultes internal ‘heterotopic’ and external ‘urban deserts’, scenarios of spaces in crisis are hypothesized with the aim of triggering reflections on the likely future scenary of the city’s architecture.

Keywords

• terzo spazio – distopia – utopia – eterotopia - collage