Università Roma Tre

The form of collective life

Being one of the most significant elements of the city, housing plays a fundamental role as the backbone of the city. Housing is a system of elements that decisively contributes to the definition of the urban quality and to the organization of the public spaces. By carefully observing the character of this urban structure we can identify the very nature of the city: the political, economic and social aspects that shaped it throughout time.

The aim of the course is to investigate and evaluate the ways in which today architecture allows us to live together. How can we be together within a residential building? How can we give form to our intimacy and at the same time share moments of our everyday life? To answer these questions one has to interrogate the relationships that these buildings produce between the city and its inhabitants, or more generally, with the surrounding urban space.

Recent cultural, social, economic and technological transformations are modifying the very structure of our everyday life, our rituals, and consequently the way in which we inhabit the public and private space. This changes demand a profound rethinking of the domestic space

The form and the organization of housing can be read as a device that relates with:

- the public sphere, by intervening directly on the form of the city and participating to the construction its ‘image’.
- the private sphere, by defining the nature of the domestic space, of the life taking place in the interior.

The building is thus understood as a device that can create a relationship between the city and the room, between the public and private spheres of our everyday life.

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