Ensaio para um Edifício de Habitação: Entre a Condição de Cidade, o Verde e os Modos de Habitar

Abstract

This work proposes the development of a Collective Housing Project through an initial theoretical approach to contemporary paradigm. The aim is to study habitability, cohabitation, sustainability, flexibility and the relationship between interior and exterior in residential buildings in order to arrive at a proposal that aims to be a building experience who seeks to respond to the new realities and dynamics of families and the new typologies and needs of housing. Today we experience a world that is constantly changing - from new technologies, the media, the notion of space, the notion of time - basically, ways of life have changed and housing is often not prepared to respond to these needs. The conceptualisation of collective housing design has generally shown itself to be the exhaustive repetition of the same rules and spatial formulas, disregarding the wide variety of personalities and needs that arise. Designing a space that can adapt to each individual's day-to-day life is based on themes such as mobility and flexibility, concepts that seek to be as timeless as possible and that are not allied to a notion of stagnation. This has become one of the objectives of the conceptualisation of this project, since the aim is to produce a dwelling that is not alien to the current reality and achieves this permeability of space. There is a disconnection between man and nature in the production of housing that creates highly artificial and disconnected spaces - the aim here is to seek a greater dependence between nature and housing buildings - to this end, we will look at Stefano Boeri's case study, Bosco Verticale. This project is a prototype building for a new format of architectural biodiversity in the relationship between man and green (other living species). This example becomes a benchmark for proposing a solution inspired by this relationship of biodiversity. In short, the purpose of this research will not be to consider the house as an "object" in which a single solution is sought - of how it should function and be composed - but rather to go beyond this objective description and look for the problems and impressions that are specific to the idea of Living. Furthermore, this work discusses the possibility of constructing Living Buildings that connect Man with Nature and with sustainable and flexible construction processes. It is not intended to be characterised as a new theme, but rather introductions and solutions that are considered innovative.