A casa ideal/a casa comum. Derrubar o objecto, libertar o poema

Abstract

Starting from some of the oeuvre of Alison & Peter Smithson and Anne Lacaton & Jean Philippe Vassal, this work has the ambition to (re)construct architecture's classic triad - Firmitas, Utilitas, Venustas - on behalf of an architecture closer to its essence. In the name of one's own architectural-project, one believes to be fundamental to chase this essence, in order to unveil architecture from its superficiality and to understand its core, its essential field of action. The origin of architecture - its centre - does not seem like something that exists only in a chronological past, but it embodies the interior of the most contemporary work. After all, what we take as something new can merely represent the roots of something old, in a innovative shape, which is the fruit of the circumstances and contingences of the moment.