With the expansion of urban density due to population growth and the real estate prices increase, crowned by new paradigms of modern city life, architects and designer have always been in the search of alternatives for new spatial configurations and options for settling and housing in the city where mentalities and ways of living lean toward more individuality and progressive liberal modes. Moreover today, after the pandemic and remote working, coupled with the dramatic crisis the country is enduring, individual minimal spaces became more imposing and even an primary solution. The living space in a fast pace city became reduced to its minimal requirements while staying highly functional and above all economical.
The course tackled the notion of proportions and scale in relation to the human body. The studio evolved around anthropometric concepts of the relationship of the human body to space, starting from the self as the best cognitive learning process.
Starting from ergonomic relationships of the body to the immediate surrounding, the studio was articulated around one project divided into 3 phases: Compress, Expand and Graft.
The first phase was a home pod for living with minimal space, followed by the second phase of expansion of the home pod, to finally culminate in a structure where students had to plug-in the living pod on a building structure, working with unique yet ubiquitous personal scenarios for living and solving the neighboring relationships in context.

The studio covered the interior minimal space, it’s transformation in relation to different concepts: the outdoor, the indoor, the site, the outside factors. etc. while translating their concepts by the means of architectural representation.