Dom Project: on how to Domesticate the Urban (I)

This article is part of the Hidden Architecture Series “Attitude”, where we explore current works by contemporain architectes which, despite its differences regarding cultural or phisychal contexts, share a practical attention towards the social value of Architecture as a public structure. Este artículo forma parte de la serie “Attitude”, comisariada por Hidden Architecture, donde exploramos la producción actual de arquitectos contemporáneos que, a pesar de las diferencias manifiestas de contexto físico o cultural, comparten una atención práctica hacia el valor social de la arquitectura como estructura pública. This proposal by Pedro Pitarch Architectures&Urbanisms has been awarded with a Second Prize in the Dom Competition (Russia, 2018) On how to Domesticate the Urban In our cities, there has traditionally been a clear and significant distinction between what was public and what was private. This difference used to define the urban and the domestic realm. In a conventional model of the city, urbanity has usually meant public and domesticity has generally meant private. En nuestras ciudades, tradicionalmente ha habido una distinción clara y significativa entre lo que era público y lo que era privado. Esta diferencia solía definir el ámbito urbano y el doméstico. En un modelo convencional de la ciudad, la urbanidad ha designado generalmente lo público y la domesticidad lo privado. However, nowadays, in a historical period characterized by social transformations, continuous technological improvements and political uncertainties, our contemporary cities are much more complex. Our societies are evolving in a way where the traditional concepts of urban and domestic are becoming obsolete ad are being transformed into updated and augmented conceptions. Sin embargo, hoy en día, en un período histórico caracterizado por transformaciones sociales, continuos avances tecnológicas e incertidumbres políticas, las ciudades contemporáneas son mucho más complejas.