Crisis unit
Living form epitomizing the minimum stage of what individuals can humanly sustain.
The house as focus for collective discomfort, compulsory shelter for a general emergency situation. Nothing but the site of functional reduction deprived from Le Corbusier idealistic utopia. Even if it strongly reminds Aldo Rossi’s postmodern bell tower, we are inevitably brought back to pinnacle towers, war allarms and outside tensions, all amplified by the contrast of a landscape covered with snow…

Multifunction in-stable
Powerful site reminding constriction, a mandatory bound; the pathology within the walls. The prison, the hospital, the secret laboratory: something dark and disturbing, an architecture made of sharp blocks that reflects an insane ideology, an undeclared dictatorship, laws that constrict and compress…

Generational Manipulations
Retaining walls erected in Chernobyl to circumscribe radiations. The architectural element, essential and firm confirms the negative vitality of walls built according to political intents. Berlin represents a clamorous case although we remember numerous other examples of injurious curtains. The situation within the works properly underlines the contrast with such landscape, a place featured by pastoral nature and raw material integrity. A disturbing scene that stimulates our imaginary towards both the consequences of nuclear disasters and apparently invisibile situations. Eventually, Nature always presents the check for our wrong choices, ultimately requesting from us, humans, the final account…

Itinerant forms (at the present residual)
The classical containers we see in harbours or on trade ships. Now we can find them in an open-air cave, unprobable context for transportation… The containers meant to move products seem now anchored to an archaic ground, nearly as lanscape art interventions (but remember that Jost’s works on the electronic virtuality of the scenes) pointed at stimulating a dialectic between beauty and madness.

Random Autosystem
A pile-dwelling realized with free creative elaboration. A place characterized by a difficult habitability, primitive and absurdly abstract, located on an other site of pure agricultural prosperity. It is everyday life that shapes its features in relation to contemporary world. It’s an individual gesture that moulds the world according to its own image.

Christ garden
An architecture elaborated by a Swiss hermit through the recycling of what found on the ground in question. A site that reflects the utopic vision of the owner, his meditative consciousness, the anomalous way of comunicating with real things. An example of possibile freedom within a landscape that hides energy and evolution potentiality. Inevitably we think about a Paolo Soleri and his Arcosanti, his naturally shaped American town without cars nor auto-referencial consumerism. A place where utopia has been transformed in buildings, streets, energetic systems, products, relational elements and real life…

Die neue ziviliesierung
A Residential three-storied house in Dresda after the well-known bombing. A sorrowfully famous symbol known as one of the greatest tragedies of the past century.
We see it in front of some constructions with very little ethic and lavish display of cheap architecture bestiality. “Nothing new”, will be the comment of many. Nothing excusable, we add today in finding again a curse behind another curse. Lessons always occur by rising from the ruins of the past. Some lessons, unfortunately, arouse from periodical layers of ruins, as a single spell was not enough to make us feel the ultimate heartbeat of degradation…

The factory of silence
Two buildings in Hong Kong, the first situated in the financial heart of the city, the second in the periphery. They look at each other as enemies before a duel. We see them, monolithics and absolutes, inside an abandoned train factory. It recalls a scene of Takeshi Kitano where the buildings play the role of the Yakuza characters. The buildings present identical forms but opposite functions: the former, capitalistic, and mere familiar surviving, the second. They represent the strongest conflict of a growing metropolitan delirium, exasperated in a China that is recently experiencing an economic boom. Careful to this work: it points at future directions, the emptiness in which we are constructing, forgetting any respect for human relationships, the contestual quality, the beauty of an inner flight…

Contemporary utopic theather
An ideal home. The one that a child would drawn on a blank sheet. The mental site of instinctive visions. Maybe the place for rebirth. Anyways the space where Jost placet, in front of Corviale, the long Roman palace where all social utopia rapidly turn into suburbian decline

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A cement house maquette. A message about the multiplication of ideas, about how we seek for approval without conscience, on the disadvantages that technology entails when it gets distracted from ethics. The concrete little house as a replica of a true wooden house. Never the less, the two homes seem distant, they do not comunicate in the right way. Probably such work is the most accessibile for interpretation and recontextualization. A piece where everything is transformed in moral doubt…