The Roman Shelter

The studio defines the field of analysis in which to investigate the idea of refuge as a home, or the home as a refuge, highlighting the dichotomous relationship between the domestic space, which intimately embodies the ego, and the house as a shelter, which provides protection from an unexpected emergency. The idea of time, of permanence within the domestic space, precisely refers to the latter meaning. If the refuge is such for the traveler during the recovery period of a sudden emergency, it changes when it becomes a permanent space that syncs and overlaps the place where return and the place where we stay, as a spatial extension of our own body.