Evolutionary customized models of needs for contemporary housing

Housing is a constructed space where, by its nature, in a time relatively short, not more than 50-60 years of the average life cycle of an household, events take place that determine continuous transformations in the framework of needs. This is an intrinsic normal condition for endogenous factors, despite the permanent invariance of current production, which today has become paradigmatic. The nature of variability is stressed by many exogenous factors, such as the molteplicity of housing demand, the variability of the behavioral patterns induced by technological innovation, the diversification of lifestyle, the growing of the immaterial needs. This situation has stimulated the desire to overcome the present lists of needs, based on static being of an average standard user, of rationalist thought, mainly aimed at defining the quantity parameter. It has determined the need to move from generalities of the undifferentiated and invariant average user to the specific characteristics of the variable “subject user” in a rapidly changing world. In this respect, a study aimed at highlighting the current contextual factors inductors of evolution behaviors has been started. These are analyzed in relation to specific life conditions of diversified user categories, representing the variety of ways to filter the same contextual realities of reference. Through the behaviour, possible ways to use space can be identified in order to make it "desirable", customizable and modifiable in relation to the specific demands of individual subject-users and the performance capacities of equipments used. These ways are explanatory, in the size parameters and in quality with particular reference to those concerning the psycho-sensitive field. Thus we move from the formulation of generalized, abstract and static lists of needs, indefinable in advance, to the foreshadowing of "desirable" ways to be space, which become “possible” in relation to the binding contextual factors and “effective” through the real-user in his evolution . We can refer more properly to customizable evolutionary models of needs, which may be spatial or descriptive, continuously updated and integrated. The project task, in this perspective, will be to define the invariant and the coordinates of the variable, or rather the low binding space continuum, available to be “adaptive” to changing needs. Models therefore aimed not so much to space as vaguely identifiable immaterial entity, as to the building components that physically “wrap” and define it quantitatively and qualitatively.