Abstract:

The study proposed is analysing and presenting the view on the current global and local situations on three levels: the global context influencing human life, the learning-teaching activity, and the way the two are mediated through a didactic architecture project.

Climate change, unpredictable social situations generated by natural disasters, economic crises, pandemics are realities of the present context of our lives. This context has generated a new phenomenon of the digital nomadism that involves living and working spaces hybridization. Thus, the new house configuration is allowing working while living in any part of the world. The need to research a new way of living has developed. The house will have to meet efficiency criteria generated through spatial capacity and energetic sustainability. The house with these new traits has the role to approach health and everything related to the notion of well-being. Now there is a vast bibliography about minimal housing with generic titles such as: micro-architecture, nano-architecture, portable architecture, temporary architecture. These types of housing have an experimental character and underline the topicality research subject in the architecture domain. The purpose of the study is to find optimal solution to meet the adaptability need and to welcome the changing context of our lives.

The premises described above is the starting point of the didactic project for developing a minimal experimental house, a first architecture project aimed for 1st year students of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism from Cluj-Napoca. We intend to have a self-critical look over the project development and over the exercise results. In the didactic process there will be closely analysis over the perception on the human needs and of the minimal housing following the COVID 19 pandemic experience.

Keywords:

Micro-architecture, nano-architecture, portable architecture, temporary architecture.