Design = Solution: Casa Basica by Martin Azua

I came across this project in the Museum of Modern Art in NY, and it really spoke volumes to me.

Artist Statement: Inhabitable volume of basic presentations; folding, inflatable, reversible. (Experimental prototype in metalized polyester) Our habitat has turned into a place of consumption in which an unlimited number of products satisfy a series of needs created by complex relations difficult to control. Cultures that keep a more direct relation with their environment demonstrate us that the habitat can be understood in a more essential and reasonable way. Learning from these attitudes and using the most advanced technology, I came up with an almost immaterial house that swells itself up from the heat of our own body or from the Sun; so adaptive that if we turn it, it protects us from the cold or from the heat; so light that it floats ;besides, it is possible to fold it up and put it into a pocket. A life on the move without material ties. Having everything without having scarcely anything.

Martin Azua 1999

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