ARHIPERA – ARHITECTURĂ PE LIMITĂ
ARHIPERA – ARCHITECTURE ON THE LIMIT

Summary/Abstract: Arhipera is the expression of architecture through the concept of Peras (<πέρας Gk. limit). Arhipera is at the intersection between architecture and limit. It is architecture on the limit, a spatial, temporal, conceptual or an ethical kind of limit. We can talk about a physical limit, including tectonics and biology. The limit can be imposed or it can be assumed, it can be mobile or it can be fixed. Arhipera places itself on the edge, on the border, on the confines that are built on the line where two separate entities reach out for each other without merging. Architecture needs a context that may function as its generator. Arhipera is developed in a context that is not capable to gene-rate architecture: settlements located in extreme poverty. Architecture is function and form. Arhipera proposes minimal functions and a form that is free from aesthetic aspects. Arhipera aims at social inclusion and the creation of a model of urban and architectural intervention designed for building social dwellings in limit situations. Architecture negotiates the relation between the interior and the exterior whereas Arhipera proposes a permeable, flexible and permissive built space and an open space liable to be transformed into a room. Architecture meets the needs of an economic and social programme. Arhipera is generated by the social context and it sustains an economic plan. It aims at a maximal social effect while using a minimum of material resources. Architecture is conceived by the architect. Arhipera is conceived by the architect and the community, as it represents the result of participatory planning.

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