Inherited morphology metamorphosis

The house evolved from the inherited urban form – a city block. While it grew it formed niches of various scales that accommodate its tenants and preserve sections of relocated scenery. The house was moulded humanly in relation to an elderly person's changed bodily apparatus, voluntarily to the sky and benevolently to its gardens.

Block structure proposed by the urban plan for the location of the elderly home– is construed as city-defining since its protected interior experiences an evolution contrasting the exterior. This signifies the value of such a space that, in the context of living and in the context of the city, forms a house that forms the city. Inherited block structures are interpreted towards recognisable values in a way that the house creates nine urban niches which accommodate sections of relocated landscapes that directly communicate with the city tissue. On the path of a lifelong walk, niches act as an overlook that observes on oneself. The house is being dissolved according the local conditions, in a representative manner in contact with the city approach, defensively in retrospect to the inhabitation, voluntarily to the roof houses in contact with the sky but still through strongly hypertrophic skirting in contact with the terrain. It strives toward a functional and mathematical accuracy with an inevitable sensibility in contact with the user (an elderly person whose bodily apparatus is changing); the ground (it hosts parts of the dislocated scenery); the sun (with which it communicates through its flat roofs); the street (via a city approach in the north); the area (through the defensive space in metamorphosis) and the city (and its inherited block structure). Humanisation of space is apparent in the shape and relation of typical housing units whose form evolved in a way to accommodate niches through which the units communicate in groups of two – sharing the loggia; in groups of four – activating the space of the hallway and creating a place of residing. In this way the characteristic spatial sequence of rooms, that are asleep by closed doors in the hallway, is reinterpreted in hope not to reduce the tenant to only two spatial and social levels – that of a higher number of people (i.e. during meals) and the contrary one, an absolute intimacy in one’s own room. The house emphasises through resplendently dimensioned staircases a relation of accompanying contents on the ground floor with sufficiently small housing units.