Add To Collection
Add to Collection
Absolute Box
Absolute Box
Italy
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
Absolute Box
Italy
absolute box
The human body, as well as the architectural one is an
hypothesis to be run, for it involves all the fields of knowledge analyzing
changes, associations and alienations (whether they are architectural, social,
territorial, philosophical, anthropological etc) which the individual inhabits,
runs, changes, crosses, far away from home.
The house, or the box (as a too generic and banal
expression used to indicate the more complex living systems whether they are built in series or just one
by one) conceived to satisfy and to protect our being in the world, indeed it
can just isolate us taking us away from the surround.
Trying to cover the distance a man gets into a
cardboard box, in which he cut out a fissure, and walk around the city.
"So like a nomad weaving connects his cloth and the house itself to the
outer space, to the open space
within the body moves".
Once he has built his living cloth the man in the box
leaves for an exploration travel, that will let him confront with his inner
self, with the territory that he marches over, with the geography he draws, And
with the complexity he passes through.
“Indeed I like so much such a landscape characterized
by vague distances, equivocal configurations, maybe because it is similar to my
condition. Never get enough looking at it from a box”.
K.Abe, Hako Otolo. "L’uomo in scatola"
Einaudi
So the clothing home becomes a living model that
allows to travel on the body house, on the body territory, looking for a
synthesis which try, through the perception sensibility, to integrate the inner
space and the outer space because our home is our own world.
Project
The term box, when applied to residences, expressed a
living condition that recalls back substantially to traditional methods. Humans
have always lived in more less articulated boxes, which have always been more
or less open (or closed), and which when configured as organised living places,
represent that refuge in which man gathers and expresses the memories of his
private world. This condition tends to accentuate the inversely proportional
relationship that exists between in and out: the more comfortable is the inner
space the less disposed is to the outer one. In fact, since remote times, man
has developed increasingly welcoming and comfortable domestic spaces, but which
are at the same time increasingly withdrawn from the outside world and thus
create an inevitable distance between the individual and the external world and
the social relationships. (That however seem to be fundamental given the present
living conditions, look at the Greek cities for example). That’s why we propose
a housing model which is not the result of a merely aesthetic work it focuses
on the recovery of individual relationships and moves towards new living
requirements. We think that the box leads to consider the house exclusively as
a refuge, it is an instrument that models itself on the individual, just as a
skin and not longer as a domestic space, as for example with animal shells. In
this sense it is a provisional shelter that is necessary but at the same time
eternal for the person who inhabits the territory.
The proposal
To achieve this result it is above all necessary to
emphasize the real nature of the box, for example, the most suitable material
is plaster cardboard, just like the shoeboxes, matchboxes, or the boxes for
packaging etc... Let’s talk about a flexible, resistant, manageable but most of
all light and easy to transport material. Our box will therefore be made of
plaster cardboard and must be suspended above the ground (over two steel
trestles). It must arise to overcome the gravity force that sustains the growth
of its roots, It should be moreover completely closed to maintain the radical
distinction between inner and outer space.
The box will constitute an empty whole; in fact, it
will represent a mobile, flexible and malleable empty space transforming into a
body without distinguishing features, which will conform to the needs of the
individual who inhabits it. (The
utilities will be located in mobile containers made from plastics as well as in
the transportable WC employed in the open-air shows, while light and water will
be distributed through portable solar panels.)
This prototype makes extensive use of diverse possible
PV systems, from standard modules to photovoltaic strips. The last ones can
have the dual function of producing electric energy and of acting as solar
filters, because they are placed on the south oriented glazed wall, as
indicated on the project. The wheel track between the strips depends directly
on the maximum height reached by the sun at the Summer Solstice, and therefore
on the latitude of the location.
Another possible solution is to insert the PV units
between the trestles on the façade as well as on the roof, by means of a
support structures that will allow different inclination of the panel according
to the location and to the hour.
The distance between panel and trestles can avoid
undesirable shadows that can limit the efficiency of the PV system
(photovoltaic system).
You can arrange more than one line of panels which can
be set in such a way to avoid cones of shadows. Power-storage units(batteries)
can be placed on the same structure, as well as closed solar circuit collectors (air-water) for the heating
system
The human body, as well as the architectural one is an
hypothesis to be run, for it involves all the fields of knowledge analyzing
changes, associations and alienations (whether they are architectural, social,
territorial, philosophical, anthropological etc) which the individual inhabits,
runs, changes, crosses, far away from home.
The house, or the box (as a too generic and banal
expression used to indicate the more complex living systems whether they are built in series or just one
by one) conceived to satisfy and to protect our being in the world, indeed it
can just isolate us taking us away from the surround.
Trying to cover the distance a man gets into a
cardboard box, in which he cut out a fissure, and walk around the city.
"So like a nomad weaving connects his cloth and the house itself to the
outer space, to the open space
within the body moves".
Once he has built his living cloth the man in the box
leaves for an exploration travel, that will let him confront with his inner
self, with the territory that he marches over, with the geography he draws, And
with the complexity he passes through.
“Indeed I like so much such a landscape characterized
by vague distances, equivocal configurations, maybe because it is similar to my
condition. Never get enough looking at it from a box”.
K.Abe, Hako Otolo. "L’uomo in scatola"
Einaudi
So the clothing home becomes a living model that
allows to travel on the body house, on the body territory, looking for a
synthesis which try, through the perception sensibility, to integrate the inner
space and the outer space because our home is our own world.
Project
The term box, when applied to residences, expressed a
living condition that recalls back substantially to traditional methods. Humans
have always lived in more less articulated boxes, which have always been more
or less open (or closed), and which when configured as organised living places,
represent that refuge in which man gathers and expresses the memories of his
private world. This condition tends to accentuate the inversely proportional
relationship that exists between in and out: the more comfortable is the inner
space the less disposed is to the outer one. In fact, since remote times, man
has developed increasingly welcoming and comfortable domestic spaces, but which
are at the same time increasingly withdrawn from the outside world and thus
create an inevitable distance between the individual and the external world and
the social relationships. (That however seem to be fundamental given the present
living conditions, look at the Greek cities for example). That’s why we propose
a housing model which is not the result of a merely aesthetic work it focuses
on the recovery of individual relationships and moves towards new living
requirements. We think that the box leads to consider the house exclusively as
a refuge, it is an instrument that models itself on the individual, just as a
skin and not longer as a domestic space, as for example with animal shells. In
this sense it is a provisional shelter that is necessary but at the same time
eternal for the person who inhabits the territory.
The proposal
To achieve this result it is above all necessary to
emphasize the real nature of the box, for example, the most suitable material
is plaster cardboard, just like the shoeboxes, matchboxes, or the boxes for
packaging etc... Let’s talk about a flexible, resistant, manageable but most of
all light and easy to transport material. Our box will therefore be made of
plaster cardboard and must be suspended above the ground (over two steel
trestles). It must arise to overcome the gravity force that sustains the growth
of its roots, It should be moreover completely closed to maintain the radical
distinction between inner and outer space.
The box will constitute an empty whole; in fact, it
will represent a mobile, flexible and malleable empty space transforming into a
body without distinguishing features, which will conform to the needs of the
individual who inhabits it. (The
utilities will be located in mobile containers made from plastics as well as in
the transportable WC employed in the open-air shows, while light and water will
be distributed through portable solar panels.)
This prototype makes extensive use of diverse possible
PV systems, from standard modules to photovoltaic strips. The last ones can
have the dual function of producing electric energy and of acting as solar
filters, because they are placed on the south oriented glazed wall, as
indicated on the project. The wheel track between the strips depends directly
on the maximum height reached by the sun at the Summer Solstice, and therefore
on the latitude of the location.
Another possible solution is to insert the PV units
between the trestles on the façade as well as on the roof, by means of a
support structures that will allow different inclination of the panel according
to the location and to the hour.
The distance between panel and trestles can avoid
undesirable shadows that can limit the efficiency of the PV system
(photovoltaic system).
You can arrange more than one line of panels which can
be set in such a way to avoid cones of shadows. Power-storage units(batteries)
can be placed on the same structure, as well as closed solar circuit collectors (air-water) for the heating
system
Product Spec Sheet
Were your products used?
Join as a manufacturer to add your products.