Temporary housing

The methodological premises are based on building sustainable development that’s derived from three factors: the needs and changes of modern society, new instances of environmental efforts to its preservation and the economic factors. In an increasingly global society, in which times and connections are more instantaneous and spaces and distances are increasingly extended and connected, also the housing needs change. In parallel, the ecological question opens reflections on land already saturated, on a ground that doesn’t allow new constructions and on existing consolidated and obsolete building. It means also a rethinking of energy consumption throughout the whole building life cycle: so the concept of "temporary housing" could be a useful and successful response to meet these challenges. Between the current solutions of the production design which relate to a high mass-production standardized product and, in opposite, the solutions of custom design, temporary living becomes a strategy able to propose a residential flexible and adaptable model. This concept is no longer used only to a limited and defined time of a dwelling type, but rather, on the need of a continuous re-configuration and re-allocation of living space and of a reversible ownership of landscape. So designers must control the entire design process, recognizing a social and environmental purpose. It must be consciously checked from the earliest stages of project design, according to a meta-design approach that can consistently meets the its needs, through the definition of new requirements, facing technological flexible and reversible solutions to its total deconstruction and dismantled. Constructional solutions, conceived by the Structure/Envelope technique, provide a good answer to check the project’s performance, the conformity to changing needs, the energy savings and the use of soil. Finally this conception of the project, which employs consciously ready-made products without compromising quality construction, allows controlling and reducing project’s costs.