Latent Villas
Incomplete Architectures and their Potential
M.M. Köhler (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
J.A. Mejia Hernandez – Mentor (TU Delft - Situated Architecture)
R. Heykant – Mentor (TU Delft - Teachers of Practice / AE+T)
E.J.G.C. van Dooren – Mentor (TU Delft - History, Form & Aesthetics)
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Abstract
The projection introduces a systematic approach to transform incomplete concrete skeletons in the south of Italy into latent villas, addressing the wasteful obsolescence of these structures in the context of regional rural abandonment and exploring the perennial tension of order and freedom in architecture.
The project is bound to existing ideals and resources available in the south
but exceeds these by the projection of a clear, central intervention that structures the perimeter. Through imposing this absolute order, existing potentials are realized, maintaining the structures inherent openness as latent tolerance.