Inhabited Mindmapping
Architecture has been always exhibited as a representation of national and
multinational interests (Olympics, EXPOs etc), showing technological, aestetical and social progress / improvement. A representation of capability to compete within the worldmarket. Specific parts of the city may get erased and cleaned to open space for a complete artificial territory that will be constructed. (Paris: Eiffeltower Exposition Universelle, a World’s Fair1889, Barcelona Olympics 1992, etc…)
How far invade architecture/buildings every days experience and remembrance of its inhabitants? WHOM belongs the city and for what reasons?
investigation
We examine the two buildings, Habitat’67 in Montréal (Canada) and Walden 7 in Barcelona focusing on the question:
Is it possible to inhabit an idea?
The two buildings we have chosen, were built in an era of social and industrial changes and intented to materialize the new ideals for living together to create a practice of a different community / a society in change.
Habitat 67 has been built in 1967, forty years ago: meanwhile terms and conditons of work, process of production, living, pleasuretime and family have been changed:
How is it like to live in a forty year old (social) construction ?
Are there common spaces that weren not planned? how do people appropiate social given space - do they accept it or do they create different spaces or even boderlines that have been not foreseen?
