Prometeo, countryside co-housing
2024 - on goingdirect commission
Canali, Reggio Emilia
How do you live inside-out, everyday?
Prometeo is a co-housing proposal that promotes horizontal living with multiple shared spaces. Through a careful arrangement of collective and private spaces, which function as pavilions connected by roofs and walls, the project questions the notion of collective living in suburban and rural areas.
Located between the city and the countryside, with views of the beautiful hills on the horizon, the vacant plot is adjacent to agricultural fields and next to a scattered development of private villas. The core of the project consists of a series of gardens, each with a distinct scale and character, organizing both private and communal living spaces. A main garden, framed by a set of cardinal walls, opens toward the countryside, creating a transition between the communal garden and the private flats, while ensuring varying degrees of privacy and exposure.
Smaller, interstitial gardens, facing the built perimeter of the site, organize the collective areas and services, blending spaces for both production and leisure. The private houses act as connectors between these different zones, with their layout and spatial carachter responding to the site's varying orientations and climatic conditions. Walls of each flat are folded to ensure an autonomous structural condition, while pivoting circular elements within reinforced concrete cores connect the ground level, which hosts daily activities, to the upper levels, designated for nighttime and mixed studio use.
Ultimately, each house offers various views and openings in a threedimensional spatial ambition, challenging traditional distinctions between interior and exterior spaces by providing an interior landscape for everyday life.
