Domesticity

In order to extend the realm of the dwelling to the scale of the city, the design strives to provide the streets with countless possible intimacies in the form of niches and pockets that might cater for the coexistence of different speeds and rhytms of events. The sequence of spaces that leads to the private realm is designed in such a way as to try and establish an ever-increasing level over privacy. The system of interlocked courtyards does not only rapresent a climatic protection from heat and dust, but also aspires to be a place where social encounters might occur.

Due to the minimal size of the units, the gallery is designed as a space that can accomodate a wide range of activities. In fact, the clustering system provides the space for circulation with compressions and decompressions that might stimulate the extension of the private space into the collective one.