ALTERNATIVE SCENARIOS OF HABITAT (ASH) - HOC EST VIVERE BIS, VITA POSSE PRIORE FRUI

Abstract

The article considers the authors concept of the architectural process based on the articulation of the conflict between the pragmatic attitudes of the system and the humanitarian values of architecture. Using the example of creative experiments of modernism masters and our own projects, we demonstrate the complex nature of the relationship between the aspirations of architects to express high meanings of culture and the concern of clients with the problem of survival and comfort. The authors feel justified consensus with the client when the architect still manages to maintain the draft the spirit to overcome the routine norms of the system and transform into a new form the ethos of dwelling in it. We are talking about the experience of creating such projects, which are based on the idea of changing insights, the shape of the house and, accordingly, the meaning of living in it. The author emphasizes the connection of this concept with the architectural experiments of two mutually integrated epochs: modernism and postmodernism, in the phenomenal history of which the task of architecture is reinterpreted, surpassing the current (and in General - profane) idea of architecture as the embodiment of the generally accepted. The design ideas of Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Theo van Dusburg, Gerrit Rietveld, Carlo Mollino, and other conceptual architects always show an attitude of opposition to self-evident standards, starting from the form and ending with the way of life. What we call alternative scenarios of habitation - ASH - can be considered as a unique reality that combines design developments and a special type of new gesamtkunstwerk that returns us to the idea of transforming reality by means of an artistic work, specifically, by means of an architectural form. In the proposed ASH concept, we rely on the theoretical research and design experiments of our joint workshop.