Poolology of Housing

Title: Poolology of Housing Language: German and English “As architects, we are in a perpetual struggle with the contradiction between the necessity for planning (residences must be built) for future occupants, and the impossibility of foreseeing that same future. In conceptualizing structures for nameless occupants, we unavoidably enter the realm of the hypothetical. Do architects inhabit not the reality, but the fiction of a society? Do they live in an anticipatory illusion? Or are they quite simply expressing what is already there?” “Como arquitectos, estamos en una lucha perpetua con la contradicción entre la necesidad de planificar (las residencias deben ser construidas) para los futuros ocupantes, y la imposibilidad de prever ese mismo futuro. Al conceptualizar estructuras para ocupantes sin nombre, inevitablemente entramos en el reino de lo hipotético. ¿Los arquitectos no habitan la realidad, sino la ficción de una sociedad? ¿Viven en una ilusión anticipada? ¿O simplemente están expresando lo que ya está ahí?” Poolology of Housing is a book that, from its very title, expresses the nature of its content. We received three fundamental clues from it. The first would indicate the field of study of the book: typologies of collective housing; the second, the authors around whom the book is developed, that is, the Swiss office Pool Architekten; finally, we could deduce from the play on words established by this name the unconventional nature of Poolology of Housing , something that will be confirmed as soon as we tackle its study. Poolology of Housing es un libro que desde su mismo título manifiesta la naturaleza de su contenido. Recibimos de él tres pistas fundamentales.