Festival dell'Architettura Magazine (Dec 2020)

#Stayhome, New forms of domestic living

  • Antonino Margagliotta,
  • Paolo De Marco

DOI
https://doi.org/10.12838/fam/issn2039-0491/n52-53-2020/519
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 0, no. 52-53
pp. 57 – 62

Abstract

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Hygienic-sanitary regulations have always influenced urban planning theories, cities transformations and forms of dwelling. While waiting for the medical solution, the answer to Covid19 goes through spatial considerations. The most immediate changes can begin from home, with a poietic thought and in opposition to the idea that everything depends solely on technology. The reasoning about the domestic space implies reflection on new needs (which the emergency has exacerbated) and on the search for quality, with a revision of the living minimums. Isolation has opened our eyes to possible domestic landscapes and, if the house is still the principle of dwelling, from it - with a multi-scalar vision - wider changes and transformations can be targeted. From this point of view, the contemporary project recovers some reasons and experiences of modernity as a reference for further elaborations.

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