Briefing

We are witnessing today a period of very rapid mutations and changes. A period of transition towards a future to be built from the fragments of contemporary age. Beside all differences and heterogeneities, the primary space of everyday life, the domestic
space, is reflecting the evolution of global society towards a higher level of complexity, heterogeneity, flexibility. We like to consider the domestic space as the most intimate
and important place for our lives. How can it react, smoothly or radically, to the process of transformation of the world where we are living? A domestic space is defined in terms of relationship between private and public, individual and collective, inclusion and exclusion, hospitality and isolation.
What is your idea of a home projected towards the future? We would like you to think at the thresold of a domestic space.
It is not just a perimeter, or a limit, or simply an enclosure. It is a layer of communication, transparency and opacity, insulation and isolation, movement inward and outward, flows of bodies, information, energy, personalities, light, bacteria, etc.
We ask you to design the thresold of a domestic space conceived as the entrance to a place of hospitality, a device of interchange between inside and outside and between host and guest. You can consider any kind of domestic space of your choice (your own house, an apartment, a friend’s place, a sultan’s mansion, a roulotte, a space-craft, a submarine, a tent in a refugee camp, a hotel room, an hospital ward, etc.) in its own
location. You have to define the meaning of the thresold of the space in terms of relationship between the inhabitant(s), the guest(s) and the external context.
It is up to you the decision whether this relationship is of positive or negative kind, as well as the degree of openness and closeness, introversion and extroversion, and technological innovation. An active layer for exclusion and/or inclusion. Hospitality
and/or inhospitality. Isolation and/or togetherness. Intimacy and/or sharing. Pessimism and/or optimism. Free from any conventional constraint, the space in-between these dichotomies is the area for your project.


Deliverables

Students have to submit no more than three A3-format drawings, a brief report in English and the same material on digital support (CD/DVD).
The reference scale is free but it has to be specified; the project, however ideal it might be, has to refer to a real situation/ environment of student’s choice.

Jury

The Jury will be composed by:
Francesca Benedetto, Donsub Bertin (Yellow Office), architects and landscape designers
Michele Calzavara, architect and freelance journalist for Domus magazine, La Repubblica
Luca Molinari, Interior Design Master program, Director
Attilio Stocchi, architect

Prize

The winner will be awarded of a full scholarship for the attendance to NABA one-year Master program in Interior Design “New Domestic Landscapes”, starting in January 2011.

Deadline

All materials have to be sent to NABA in a closed envelope and HAVE TO REACH NABA WITHIN SEPTEMBER 30TH 2010, along with the attached application form and with all the documents specified in it.