Communal villa

“As we have seen, the perversion of asceticism is not simply its translation as ‘austerity’ but also its branding as image, which in times of austerity has become not only fashionable but also ideological. And yet it is precisely because economic austerity is a subjective economy, aiming to manipulate the subject´s moral and ethical sphere, that asceticism offers also the possibility to emancipate subjectivity from such manipulation” Less Is Enough: On Architecture and Aceticism. 2015 – Pier Vittorio Aureli. Pier Vittorio Aureli is an architect that, from the beginning of his professional career and due to his strong ideological beliefs, rejected the idea of building individual housing as part of his work. Therefore, the name of his project has an ironic and intended component: Communal Villa. Pier Vittorio Aureli es un arquitecto que desde el comienzo de su carrera profesional y debido a su fuerte posicionamiento ideológico, rechazó la posibilidad de construir viviendas unifamiliares como parte de su trabajo. Tiene por tanto un componente muy intencionado, y al mismo tiempo irónico, el nombre que utiliza para este proyecto de viviendas para artistas: Villa Comunal. The building has an almost perfect cubical shape where, inside, individual and communitarian activities are put together. Following a rigid interior grid, a series of individual rooms are located next to the four facades of the building. Each room includes a room and an individual working space for each artist. The central area is an open space that occupies the entire free height of the building and shows the structure of the building as a physical representation of the grid. This area is used to shelter communitarian activities that aim to foster the relation between the artists. El edificio se compone de un cubo de proporciones casi perfectas donde se combina el trabajo individual de los artistas con la vida comunitaria entre ellos.