Maison Ensemble is the urban paradise you were looking for. We advise you to come alone. There are a lot of people leaving from Maison Ensemble with company.
This thesis quotes a series of texts referring to the close relation between Medicine and Architecture. It focuses on specific architectural practices -that under a curative angle-, tried a remediation of our living environments. Furthermore, we investigate how this practices perpetually shaped a dwelling role model and a human role model as well, ideal to inhabit it. That consumption is made clear, by reading the amount of architectural handbooks that appeared during Modernism, where all the ideal dwelling and human characteristics are analyzed. However, this categorization formed the environments we live in, according to the single human unit, promoting in this way an individualized way of living.
Our proposal attempted to examine the architectural practices mentioned above, to rethink the places we live, now formatted for a group of people and not for the single unit and to revise as well the entire dwelling tactics. Therefore, we designed a small two-story house and the amount of household devices-rooms that constitute it, specially shaped to host a small group of people.
The house is located inside Greek city and it is available to let only temporary. Our investigation on Greek city, focused on the way it digested some Modernistic elements, that changed in a great manner its identity. Furthermore, we were highly interested on how dwelling is shaped in Greek city, as well as how it affects the places we live in.
Our thesis examined all the topics mentioned above, under a critical, an architectural and a theoretical approach and converted them into Maison Ensemble and a revised co-dwelling model.
