Icarly Subliminal Messeges

Designers of transience (Raffaele Trabace)

Diving in the complex reality of Metropoliz has given me instant curiosity and willingness to learn a new reality for me.
Metropoliz appeared to me a container of different ways of living, from the many possibilities, in which each occupant has gradually established their own private space with the means at his disposal.
Direct observation brought me back to mind some thoughts that the Dutch architect John Habraken was about the "support structures, support structures designed with small endowments, architects, and where people define their living space. I
associated Metropoliz idea of \u200b\u200ba support structure, whose spaces can change its skin many times, depending on who employs them and the uses to which they are intended.
The support structure is here represented by abandoned warehouses and derelict buildings, structures that are prevalent in our cities, which are revived in an extreme situation such as those involving a house "normal" does not possess.
The comparison may seem risky, but what strikes me is that I get a situation Metropoliz certainly more democratic in terms of shared architecture and the direct involvement of the Dweller in the definition of your space, keeping in mind the particular context in where every citizen is involved.
While in the theoretical assumptions of Habraken architect plays a role of "mediator" between manufacturers / investors and citizens, our role in the experience Metropoliz seemed rather to designers of transience.
In the sense that we were first involved in the colonization of unused space in the complex and subsequently in the preparation of at least livable spaces for the occupants.
Initially I found it difficult to accept the idea of \u200b\u200b"design" spaces that physically could have been last year, a few months if not days, but then I gradually realized its potential.
The intervention is to be evaluated with a view wider, which is the appropriation of a place with their gradual transformation into a space.
The "common spaces" that we actually realized in the future will mirror the integration between the people and their needs that may change from time to time.
Having participated in the design of a "possibility" I think we have included in the complex process of integration between the occupants of these spaces can be.