In those areas where spontaneous and unauthorized construction is widespread, overwhelming the so-called good architecture. people should consider that informal phenomena concretise the tangle between the builder's own experience and his living environment. Structural or decorative elements are figured out and crafted to quickly respond to two important requests: spatial appropriation and self-representation of the owner. Often lying in the grey area of building regulations, those elements adapt their form to any concrete frame construction and to the builder's modus operandi; they absorb imperfections of the self-made; they speed up the work; they reuse or recycle existing materials. Why architecture should embrace an interest in spontaneous construction if it is produced beyond its own interests? Maybe the answer Is the question Itself.
Resta, G., Cappello, F. (2018). Spontaneous.Do-it-yourself domesticity. In G. Resta, F. Cappello (a cura di), Spontaneous. Do-it-yourself domesticity (pp. 32-37). Melfi : Libria.
Spontaneous.Do-it-yourself domesticity
Resta, Giuseppe;
2018-01-01
Abstract
In those areas where spontaneous and unauthorized construction is widespread, overwhelming the so-called good architecture. people should consider that informal phenomena concretise the tangle between the builder's own experience and his living environment. Structural or decorative elements are figured out and crafted to quickly respond to two important requests: spatial appropriation and self-representation of the owner. Often lying in the grey area of building regulations, those elements adapt their form to any concrete frame construction and to the builder's modus operandi; they absorb imperfections of the self-made; they speed up the work; they reuse or recycle existing materials. Why architecture should embrace an interest in spontaneous construction if it is produced beyond its own interests? Maybe the answer Is the question Itself.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.