CASA DIN ZORI
HOUSE OF DAWN

Summary/Abstract: „House of Dawn” is the name of a project pertainingto the Arhipera trademark. It follows the same line ofaction of the group, namely the practice of social participatoryarchitecture. The project concentrates on assumingthe human capital that is in the limit situationof privation of shelter and tries to integrate it in a programthat involves qualification and professional conversionin the construction field; the goal of the programis the „overnight” building of a minimal dwelling.The solutions for this category of persons in state ofdifficulty, situated at the extremity of the society, entailsthe configuration of varied typologies of minimalevolutive dwellings; as in the previous projects, the solutionsaim at a democratic architecture obtained byusing the „bottom‐up” model. In addition, the projectproposes an ecological approach of the design, a durabledevelopment of the dwellings and puts a strongemphasis on the sustainability.From a topological point of view, the plots for buildingthe dwellings for the homeless people will beconnected with the existent urban tissue in order toachieve the social integration of the participants in theprogram; the choice of the plots focuses on unconventionalspaces with regard to social habitation. A possibilitythat has been carefully considered from scratchis the reprocessing of unused urban spaces, includingthe recycling of the initial architectural function.Through the manifest of this program we propose theconversion of certain unfinished spaces of the totalitarianarchitecture of The People’s House/The Palaceof Parliament into spaces for social dwellings destinedfor unsheltered people. In this particular case, the architecturalrecycling transforms the Totalitarianisminto democracy and restores The People’s House tothe people itself. The project is based on the norms ofcommon law regarding the right to occupy the spacemeant for habitation. A family that is able to erect ahouse overnight on a plot on which it has no rights to isdignified to inhabit the respective space and proves tobe useful from a social and economic point of view tothe community that accepts it. The idea of the projectis also sustained by a program of social integration ofthe beneficiaries and their inclusion in the labor market.The implementation of this type of social architectureis defined by efficiency, adaptability and flexibilityand it’s centered both on the consolidation of the communitarianpotential and on dwelling as an essentialdimension of the humans. At the border of day andnight, at the intersection of two spaces placed at theextremes, the Arhipera projects speak about openingthe limit and abolishing it.

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