ARCHITECTS: cero9 (Cristina Díaz Moreno + Efrén García Grinda)
ALIAS: hOH
YEAR: 2000
PROJECT: Houses by the Hour
LOCATION: Anywhere
COLLABORATORS: Miguel Paredes
hOH, from 0 to 26280 hours. A civilization without homes.
hOH, homes by the hour, is a project about the possibility of establishing a new time-based relationship with domestic space, dealing with relationships between us and our homes.
hOH extends over the world adapting its configuration to the places where any of its pieces is installed.
hOH are flexible programmed units extruded along slender towers: a low priced domestic space that can be built in the centre of any city and occupied for a few hours or permanently.
hOH are not complete buildings. The fragments lack meaning on their own. They become meaningful only when they are introduced into a dense urban landscape. Their slenderness and small footprint minimize their connection to the ground and land prices, allowing low-cost habitation in locations of maximum density and activity.
hOHs are built with high strength rigid systems that use their surroundings for support by attaching to existing façades, cutting through floor plates and embedding themselves in adjacent buildings.
hOH is oriented as an specific response for each different place: a single building that redefine itself, internally adapting its configuration as a response to every new situation. With the data of every place to which an hOH is assigned, the relative percentage of programmes is defined –one room dwellings, conventional hotels, personal objects storage, showers, laundries, bathrooms, commercial units…- which allows the variation of special features in each unit according to the condition which are faced.
The composition, appearance, and colour of the multi layered enclosures are reconfigured depending on climate and orientation. Seven elements (supports in contact with the ground, escolex tying the structure to the surrounding buildings; backpacks, local floor level extensions; two types of heads, inclined or not; and shafts of variable length) constitute a unique system that generates different identities for each location.
hOH, much like SROs (Single Room Occupancy systems) or pensions of the past, constitute residential limbos, incubators for anomalous forms of inhabiting our urban centres.
hOH, homes by the hour, is a project about the possibility of establishing a new time-based relationship with domestic space, dealing with relationships between us and our homes.
hOH extends over the world adapting its configuration to the places where any of its pieces is installed.
hOH are flexible programmed units extruded along slender towers: a low priced domestic space that can be built in the centre of any city and occupied for a few hours or permanently.
hOH are not complete buildings. The fragments lack meaning on their own. They become meaningful only when they are introduced into a dense urban landscape. Their slenderness and small footprint minimize their connection to the ground and land prices, allowing low-cost habitation in locations of maximum density and activity.
hOHs are built with high strength rigid systems that use their surroundings for support by attaching to existing façades, cutting through floor plates and embedding themselves in adjacent buildings.
hOH is oriented as an specific response for each different place: a single building that redefine itself, internally adapting its configuration as a response to every new situation. With the data of every place to which an hOH is assigned, the relative percentage of programmes is defined –one room dwellings, conventional hotels, personal objects storage, showers, laundries, bathrooms, commercial units…- which allows the variation of special features in each unit according to the condition which are faced.
The composition, appearance, and colour of the multi layered enclosures are reconfigured depending on climate and orientation. Seven elements (supports in contact with the ground, escolex tying the structure to the surrounding buildings; backpacks, local floor level extensions; two types of heads, inclined or not; and shafts of variable length) constitute a unique system that generates different identities for each location.
hOH, much like SROs (Single Room Occupancy systems) or pensions of the past, constitute residential limbos, incubators for anomalous forms of inhabiting our urban centres.
