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> manifesto

1> ON INTENTIONS.

I'm asked to write about intentions; about my architectural intentions in proposing an architectural experiencein a specific place. I have pieces of thoughts, fragments of an entire story that i do not know how to tell.

so let's just write down that, let's write an architectural story made up by fragments. let's make a little bookwhich will really be a collage. let's play cards, cutting out chapters apparently disconnected and sticking them

again with the glue of my intention. some of them will be specific, others more poetic. some of them will becompletely banal, and others will be deep as the ocean; but all of them will make up my architectural manifesto.all this 'chapters', little stories themselves, will act together as the blinds in the painting on the left, sostrongly connected by the specific meaning written at the bottom that each one will need the others to acquire

significance and, if some of them falls, all of them will also fall.

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> THE ARCHITECTURE THAT WILL BE PROPOSE

The citizens of leith got up of bed that morning with a

deafening ROAR. what on the hell had that EXPLOSION

been?? Some of them looked through their windows and

realized that something had changed forever...

THE ARCHITECTURE THAT WILL BE PROPOSE D WILL FACE UP TO AN UNSETTLED, COMPLEX PLACE, A RHIZOME MADE UP OF PLENTY OF INTERCONNECTED NODES, A PLACE WHERE ONE CAN NOT DETERMINE ANY CENTER, A

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leith seen as rhizomeas a net of interconnected nodes

architecture should answer to thatintegrating in the net

use all its potential to develop.

ECTED NODES, A PLACE WHERE ONE CAN NOT DETERMINE ANY CENTER, A MULTIPLICITY OF SINGULARITIES. WE WILL HAVE TO ACT CONSEQUENTLY, PROPOSING A

2 children's games, pieter brueghel. 1560

The shining of the explosion hadblinded them in the way that they werenot able anymore to process the paththey were walking through. They werea mass in which it was not possible torecognize a beginning or an end.Reality had stop having an only pointof view, in order to became a prismwith multiple sides, a multiplicity ofsingularities that made up an infinitecanvas.

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WE WILL HAVE TO ACT CONSEQUENTLY, PROPOSING A HYBRID BUILDING WHERE THE WORD HIERARCHY HAVE NO REAL MEANING, A BUILDING WITH THE CAPACITY TO CAUSE

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We are talking about provoking the unexpected, invoking the unexpected. We are talking about a black swan, those sort of rarity that contradictthe regulations in force and completely revolutionize the point of view. Yes, actually we were always talking about revolutionizing the point of view...

, THAT INEVITABLY CHANGES THE CONDITION S OF THE PLACE, BUT GRAFTING IN IT WITH THE PRECISION OF A SURGEON IMPLANTING A HIP PROSTHESIS.

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