Honorable Mention - locked-downin(120homes)
Casa Malaparte is designed by Adalberto Libera for an Italian dissident writer Curzio Malaparte. They started working on the project while Malaparte was a prisoner. The thought on a home has inevitably changed for Malaparte in this period, stating that “Man is not meant to live freely in freedom, but be free inside in prison”. Thinking of a conflicting scenario to his perspective, six young Turkish habitants find themselves in his house for an uncertain time of quarantine. It is meant to extract the events and thoughts out of design interaction, not to design thinking of an experience.
The quarantine can be described through three distinct phases. Starting with the exciting arrival of an arrival, a series of vague thoughts, and seeing the places as defined by Libera. Secondly the longest phase of rethinking of the spaces as a whole and spacial interventions that lead to a sequence of unprecedented events. Lastly, the calm phase of over-familiarity in house that maintains a steady pleasure and nearly stopped production.
The sound on the background is a composition of unintentionally captured talks in Mr. Ö’s guitar practice recordings. The narrative of this progress is inspired by the publications of those times when Casa Malaparte has gained most of its public appearance especially after “Le Mépris (1664)”. Journal’s style and tone are originated from 70s European magazines in order to ignite a confusion about the time period of events. The intention is to indicate the timelessness of events takes place in a home, which are more apparent in such time. Also gathering various medias such as instant photos, records, and collages help to build up a better understanding of the experience.
“The Memories of Casa Malaparte” is a struggling journal between Libera’s repressive manner of “sad, hard, severe … the secret image of prison” (Malaparte) and a group of curious people.
