The subject of this final project concerns the research, the documentation, the reenactment and finally the re-contextualization of urban waste, composing an alternative inhabitation scenario.
This scenario is about a fictional resident of the city of Volos, who collects and files in a developing habitable archive of garbage, everything he finds abandoned in the streets and thinks that can be reused and reclaimed, from plastic bottles to mattresses and sofas.
He alters these objects by changing their original shape or even their properties, for personal use, initially, and finally he exhibits and sells his work.
In an attempt to imitate this resident we present our version of how someone could inhabit a space with self-made constructions based on our diary research in the city.
This project has an experimental and inquiring character and cannot be evaluated with the conventional criteria of architectural design. Our intention is not to examine the architectural composition and the “comfort” that can be provided by an object but the inhabitation alternatives that can contribute to the limitation of the unreasonable expansion of urban waste and consequently the improvement of everyday urban life.
