Publication: Houses Beyond-the-Threshold. A new paradigm of housing for the third Millennium
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2019
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AESOP
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Houses beyond-the-threshold’ is a project that has seen the transformation of public housing 'under threshold' flats in the Calvairate district of Milan into living spaces for unaccompanied foreign minors, guided in a self-recovery path of the apartment they would have lived until becoming of age. The project introduces an idea of welcoming based on reciprocity, within a cultural operation that keeps together the architectural space with site-specific artistic works created for each of the apartments. Beyond the threshold of inhabiting as an answer to the need of a shelter, an unprecedented model of encounter between art, architecture, urban and social disciplines is outlined. At the same time, this initiative acts as an interpreter of a crucial need, which underlies inhabiting conditions in social houses and which finds in a lack of cultural texture the main reason for it to remain marginal. Moreover, by trigging new forms of relationship between migrants and inhabited space, the project suggests to urban planning a perspective to deal with transiency as an issue that increasingly characterizes the contemporary city.
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housing, temporary living, social inclusion, migrants integration