Invisible House

External view.

My steps start to become heavy, after two hours walk I decide to take a rest. Around me the landscape is desolated, sand dunes move following the direction of the wind pushing them. I take an old map from my pocket, trying to get oriented, but it's impossible, the site changes continuously. Suddenly the ground keeps moving, all around a city starts to take form. Building move up and down. The scene that appear to me is a kind of instable suspension between before and after, a sign of a change of location that the spectator can read following in the tracks it left. Roads are desert, try to get some information, but there are no people around to ask.

I approach to a two levels building one level bared in the ground, the second moves up.

I come nearby to have a look inside: the space is well organized and comfortable, in the centre four pillars contain the lift to go upstairs. The distribution of the domestic spaces is obtained by moving the panels in a flexible and functional way, everything seems to be integrated, so not to produce interferences. In front of me two kids are playing on a sofa, while their mom is busy with her computer moving the panels. Her gesture and her words seem to move with the walls in the house. All I see appears to me as a pure absence: visible and invisible hide and emerge through the gesture, the words and the shapes in front of me. Pleased for having catched the essence of vision I decide to change image, and soon astonished I realize that there's nothing to look at.

Internal view.

Project

Imagine finding yourself in a landscape where the predominant colours shift from yellow to light brown, where the only existing material is sand or dry clay, and where the only variation is determined by the difference in the levels or amounts.

Imagine finding yourself in front of a place characterized by strongly contrasting elements: bright light, defined shadows, total darkness, torrid heat, intense cold etc.

Now imagine inhabiting this place without references, without variations, without pause, and thinking of a living solution that will guarantee your survival.

Finally consider the chance for the existence of this place, given that that the desertification process still in act, will reach the south of our peninsula.

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