The idea is to rethink how to live the free time, made of a simple life, possibly closer to nature and its rhythms.
You can enjoy living in a hut and have a front garden, a lawn, some trees.
Life is expensive and it is perhaps possible to exit from certain logic and think that being able to grow and consume the products of our work can be an achievement and a satisfaction.
What is interesting is to work on the idea of so many micro-economies, and share this type of project with other people who feel the same way.
We live too often isolated and locked in our problems, it is interesting to see which projects are contributing to create new relationships and situations of common life.
Abitare il Tempo, 16-20 September 2004
The project consists of a large oval perimeter 25X15m bordered by a hedge.
Inside is a red wooden house, designed for a couple, with a large pergola in front, also of wood, which was placed a large dining table and chairs for reading and resting. A bar-style beach bar with high stools, communicates with the kitchen.
The soil inside the perimeter is made of reddish bark and decorated with lots of bright green balls (helexine soleiroli), arranged in an orderly manner.
The light is artificial and plays a sunset.
“A simple life” is part of a series of 1:1 scale research installation on new sustainable housing designed and built by Cibicworkshop in the last years:
2004 – A simple life
2005 – A perfect weekend
2007 – View with a room
2008 – Orto Town
2009 – More with less
Photos from our Flickr channel:
Credits
Curated by:
Aldo Cibic
Design team:
Aldo Cibic con Marco Calliari, Alfredo Ratti,Tommaso Corà, Luigi Creazzo, Cristiano Urban
Landscape design:
Rattiflora
For further informations:
Abitare il Tempo: www.abitareiltempo.com
Rattiflora: www.rattiflora.com
