Crypto domestic desert
Proposal for a Roman villa developed for the exhibition Re-constructivist Architecture.
Crypto domestic desert envisions an architecture in the Roman countryside, in the era of the ultimate human impact on the Earth, of the government of the algorithm, of the artificial nature, of the transhumanism and of the post-truth. It envisions the Roman countryside as a desert, a continuous Piranesian ruin, limitless. It envisions the desert as a ground zero from which new forms of collectivity, tribalisms and architecture can rise up. An occult architecture, but hyper-connected and infrastructure, isolates itself from the extreme climatic condition, as an underground termitarium, for a man who has become animal again, who builds fictional reality within aseptic and well-tempered environments. Simple scenographies and boxes immersed in a sea of technical systems. It shows up on the exterior as a totemic object for a primitive future, made by the incapacity of facing the extreme present.
