BOXY-FOXY
submission for small lots competition by
@citylabucla @uclaaud
@asprostudio.eu
@albertosimoni @bertaisnotmyname @a_alessandro_leone @federicolucchi
animation
@gaberlorusso
Rather than proposing a fixed form, the project introduces a method—anchored in a light steel framing grid—that operates less as a rigid system than as a structural field open to negotiation, deformation, and reinterpretation. It is precisely in the subtle tension between this underlying order and the contingent, site-specific articulations of infill—between open and closed volumes, solid and void—that the architecture finds its character, allowing variations in density, orientation, and inhabitation without losing coherence.
Ownership extends beyond possession to include the right to adapt, appropriate, and participate in shaping one’s environment.