Domestic Devices

A Continuously Changing Seasonal House by TAKK

Domestic Devices

A Continuously Changing Seasonal House by TAKK

01/02/2025


For Mireia Luzárraga and Alejandro Muiño, founders of the Barcelona studio TAKK and professors at Columbia University, the future harbors many uncertainties, which they have decided to face from an optimistic and propositive perspective. Faced with mantras like ‘it is easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to capitalism,’ they have set out to think about alternatives to the logics of this economic system and to prepare themselves for the day after its fall, always sensitive to the contemporary models of coexistence and aware of the current climate regime. From these thesis, they address the challenge of transforming an industrial space of 400 square meters into a home, without incurring high economic or ecological costs. For this reason, and given the budgetary impossibility of fitting out the whole interior space, they designed small devices that cater to the basic needs of a home, create multipurpose thermal redoubts, and manage to do without mechanical climate control systems...[+]


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