Living and Thinking Nomadic Housing: Porta Palazzo Temporary Residence in Turin

Simona Canepa

Department of Architecture and Design, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Abstract: Living: today it’s often linked to temporariness; the current situation of the housing market, the need of finding housing for moving users or users in temporary housing emergency has caused the city of Turin and other institutions to think a model of Nomadic Housing that aims to be at the same time an experimentation of a new way of furnishing and living interiors and also a new way urban regeneration of areas strongly affected by social problems. Thinking: Interiors and Exhibit Design course at Politecnico of Torino tested a didactic formula to use common spaces of temporary residence as a communicative model of themes related to the area where the building is located and at the same time to induce greater sharing of common spaces through temporary exhibitions.

Key words: temporary housing, building and social renovation, public, common service and private spaces, exhibit to communicate