Una casa per tutti

MVRDV, clotheshouse.

Beamdesign, pallet house.

Peruan Red Cross+IFRC, shelter.

Gio Ponti in late 1942 chose "Casa per tutti" ("a house for everybody") as title in a "Stile" issue first page. It was also the slogan and guide line for the VIII Triennale di Milano.
Today this is still a problem, a state of emergency increasing day by day not only in disaster sites, but in our cities with fragmented suburbs, slums, insufficient popular housing, first reception centres for migrants, Rom camps etc...
The exposition "Una casa per tutti" at Triennale di Milano (23th May - 7th September) shows a wide range of experimantal emergency housing, divided in four sections - Fast Houses, Utopias and New Materials, Micro/Macro, Emergencies -.

Between the analysed solutions can be found the existenz minimum of Le Corbusier, Gropius, Aalto, Prouvé, Fuller's geodetic structures, the Living Pod (1966) of Archigram, and so on until today, with Carolina Pino's cardboard shelters and Madhouser's Huts in recycled materials, MVRDV, Cliostraat, David Adjave, Shigeru Ban, Morphosis, the Chilean architect Aravena, Kengo Kuma, the Red Cross shelter and IFRC in Peru etc...

At the same time, "La vita nuda" ("the naked life", coordinated by Aldo Bonomi) presents the harsh reality of abusive settlements in Rome and maps 82 situation of risk in Milan municipality with a rich visual support of photos, clipping and installations.

http://www.triennale.it/index.php?lang=_eng&id=1&tbl=0&idq=726 http://milano.repubblica.it/dettaglio/In-Triennale-la-casa-per-tutti/1462936