How could architecture preempt the varying conditions of inhabiting space?
a.L.U. (actual Living Unit) proposes a research methodology about living in the 21st century. It resulted in the development of a toolbox for flexible or mobile housing; an architecture that adapts to place, time, individual living conditions and environment.
An infinite number of possible program combinations is created by the extraction of parts of a larger arsenal. An urban toolbox and an architectural kit of parts that is generated through a sociological discourse; it is obedient to the logic of actual use.
The work was presented in the exhibition series EW/NS 02 at the centre for architecture Arc en Reve in Bordeaux, France.
Credit
Oliver Schütte with Marije van Lidth de Jeude and project specific support.
Various locations, 2002 – ongoing.