Manhole
Manhole agglutinates a mountain range of architectural cliches regarding temporary housing: light, small, deployable, textile, mass-produced, cheap, uncomfortable, flexible, de-contextualized, connectable, simple, impermeable, movable and, eventually, user-friendly. It adds one more, urbanity. Designed to colonize seamless urban conditions, it only functions as a parasite, sucking services, qualities and events from the architecture it sticks to. Yet, its interest relies in what it prevents rather than in what it permits. One only can occupy it eternally lying in a fluffy uterus, and when folded over, it does not left space to keep one’s belongings. In summary, Manhole is a domestic machine devoid of the space usually devoted to socialization and accumulation.
In collaboration with Ema Dunner, Magdalena Ostornol and Cristian Zanoni.
