Collective managment

Environmental design is being taken into acount more and more in architecture design these days. This is something good, but we believe it should not only rely on the building's performance.
A participative managment in the environmental issues would be much more effective at long term because it builds good "environmental" habits in citizents. The user should percieve he/she is an important part of it.

Layetting

There is one more item I think might be interesting for the project. There is a nice sentence in Saramago’s memories Cadernos de Lanzarote: “the home returns to the home”, when referring the day his private library arrived from Lisbon to his new house in Lanzarote. The library is the home. This arises a subject I’m very interested on: which mechanisms are spread out for architecture to be socially accepted? When Toyo Ito started building Sendai Mediatheque, a parallel, regulated process arose: programmed acts, meetings, publications... anticipated in some way the innermost experiences of the building to be. The expectations created around the building site would almost as intense to those within a family awaiting a new baby... Pretty much like creating a layette!

I believe it is possible to build a sort of pre-relationship between the students house, the city and the students that can be efficiently implemented by collaborating with NTNU (fortunately they are in the mood for it), by developing workshops and experimental constructions on the site, a simultaneous open, and transparent process involving citizens and students… that might even end up living on the residence!

Chatrooms

Virtual chatrooms are very popular social networking spaces that offer an interactive, user submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos and videos internationally. They are the most effective public spaces in the context of global societies whose community-building depend growingly of the search of common affinities, and not of phisical proximity of urban squares. They guarantee situations of real interchange, and those of action outside its virtual boundaries. For this can be a banal tool and at the same time a tool for the management of action and upheaval, for the association and coordination of people. Barthes pointed out that the space of conflict, of friction, is the public space par excellànce.

Chat rooms are also the places where avatars meet. Places to freely and temporarily transform and literally wear alternative identities, a kind of accelerator of identity, a personality laboratory. The temporal exacerbation of the construction of the imagined self.