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Filippo Cioffi

A House in the Countryside. New Spaces for Collective Living . Saint-Étienne

Filippo Cioffi

This theoretical investigation is based on the desire to explore the inherent potential of the countryside, both in its morphology and its deep ethical meaning. The architectural object under development is proposed as one of the venues for new, emerging, itinerant, heterogeneous and flexible groups. Very present within the French territory and in need of recovering a direct contact with nature, individuals who want to be part of the “holistic models for socio-cultural transformation” are now looking for new spatial identities to live collectively and take care of their surroundings.

I imagine the building to consist of one roof, under which a newly designed, natural biotope exists.
A roof sustained by the members of its community and meanwhile named to define the common ground of the latter. Creating a pattern of elements all placed with the aim of never obstructing the relation to the outside.
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