Flex House

The guidelines for this contest’s proposal comes from an old system, developed by Le Corbusier in 1914, the Dom-Ino system. With the clear notion that social housing finds its biggest asset in simplicity, Corbusier´s system offers not only this attribute, but also an open system, where flexibility in distribution and fencing act as the main point and an attraction to the resident.

The idea of the project is to explore the possibilities of this scheme beyond the outstanding visual of slab on pilotis, such as the continuation of a beam system that extends itself beyond the original structure, forming a grid that foretells not only the restraint – where the structure extends - but also the expansion, how far the resident can go from his initial housing module.