The exploration of the possibility to design a student dormitories building, which one, through its architectural solution, it will contribute to the every day interaction of its inhabitants, while at the same time it will participate in a continuous dialogue with the city, it constituted the main questioning, which played a protagonist role to the project’s evolution. The student dormitories building it owes and has to represent an idealistic community’s micrography, in which will be achieved free and unconstrained trading of thoughts and ideas, collective and social conscience.
In which degree the architecture of a student dormitories building can contribute to a social activation?
The aim is that the building will function as a vital element of the university’s space, as well as an important core of the social community, in which the inhabitants will not find just a space to sleep and the citizens will not face it as a multi-dwelling but as a “citydwelling”. Terms as interaction, reconciliation, perforation, gathering, cutting, private, public, porous, transparent, hive, constituted key words during the whole procedure of the project.