The Plan-less House | bamboo studio

“You can imprison my body but you will never be able to stop my mind”

We must start from the observation that contemporary cities are undergoing a phenomenon of functional extirpation. Function no longer exists, destination which in the last few years has been contradicted; the phenomenon of industrial divesture is the first and most evident phenomenon of a process that involves the other urban functions from commerce, to tertiary, to building. People work from home, live in their offices, do business from home, gasometers are transformed into museums; this revolution does not produce considerable phenomena from the point of view of the urban landscape, but corresponds to deep tectonic processes, continuous movements and bradyseisms inside the whole motor of the city.
All post-industrial cities have been overwhelmed by this silent revolution.
We are faced with a phenomenon called weak modernity which produces widespread transformations, that are not very evident, reversible but of extreme structural importance. A modernity characterized by the planning of flexible and temporary environmental microsystems. An urban metabolism that produces a continuous evolution of the functional codes.
Provisional nature, interstitiality, perishableness, flexibility contribute to the phenomenology of liquefaction (meant in a postive way) of solid bodies of the contemporary city.
The city looks like a theatre with infinite stages (houses), where individuals can elaborate their own personal magic taking on multiple roles, writing endless scripts (life). Each time a new theatre play is staged a piece of city is built, we take part in the re-functionality of the built space where the individual becomes the main actor and has the burden of weaving the web and is responsible for failure. We are faced with a network of containers where each individual projects his past and recites his life transforming them into his own microworld..
Therefore, the city is a place where reality and imagination become one. Modernity becomes individual.
The concept of space in which we are interested is intangible. We are referring to the psychological space in which our soul moves. Whoever needs material things, walls, to define ones territory and circuit of action, starts from a position of insecurity. In our project we will analize this fascinating non-location, the human mind, the mindzone
The container does not have dimensions that can be perceived, it is infinite, without boundaries, delimited by virtual semi-transparent horizontal and vertical surfaces that project images, video, information, lights. Nothing visually obstructs the depth of field, the perception of sounds, aromas and colours. The here-now loses meaning, the linearity of time loses consistency, our body dissolves itself and becomes a static container, a solid body, an obsolete and fragile structure that rolls away from the centre towards an unknown X. The functional crisis of the modern city coincides with the crisis of the “body function”.
The traditional subdivision of spaces, the common concept of privacy are contradicted.
We are inside a space with no walls where the rooms are delimited by our thoughts, our emotions, our information.
The linear arrangement of the furniture is at the service of the “body function”.
The components of everyday life being changeable need a dynamic answer on behalf of their own dwelling context in order to compensate them.
The space dematerializes, it becomes fluid, it lives on sensory metamorphosis, emotional components, it speaks different languages and it adapts in real time to the mood of the person who lives in it. It communicates through the senses: chromotherapy, aromatherapy, and musictherapy. It updates itself continuously changing and renewing itself.
We are inside the mindzone.