Online Serendipity

When searching for something completely different, I came across this very interesting collection of articles on housing on the online platform—SOCKS. The collection is entitled "Housing the Multitude" and starts with this introductory text:

"Since the beginning of human history the need for a house has implied latent meanings, from the bare “looking for a shelter” to the fulfillment of complex spiritual and social needs. Historically, a number of inhabiting solutions were imagined for the coexistence of individuals and families in collective dwellings, in order to provide an improvement in resource sharing, built terrain and infrastructural optimization and waste limitation.

Completely dissimilar visions of communal life and conditions of social stratification lay behind this group of projects, but all of them share the search for a density which doesn’t restrict the private sphere yet allows, in different degrees, room for shared activities destined to enhance the life of the community."

I hope it inspires, delights, awes, or shocks you...but above all...makes you (we) all question what is this that we are currently doing.

Anyway, here is the link. Enjoy!

http://socks-studio.com/category/topics/housing-the-multitude/

Tiago TC