Adaptive housing system for variable frameworks of needs.

For a while now the inhabiting is experiencing a period of deep identity crisis, on the typological, morphological and technological plan. It is because the contextual factors (such as social, cultural, economic and political) are changed and they constantly change and establish ways of being. Which home today, when there are many frameworks of needs, diversified and changeable? In order to offer an answer to this question the present paper proposes the results of a design research developed by the authors during a Laboratory of degree for the reconstruction of the public residential housebuilding in the city of L’Aquila in Abruzzo (Italy) affected by the earthquake in 2009. The incentive to face this problems it’s arisen by the need to reconstruct the buildings which are going to be demolished because of the earthquake damages, these are situated in a particularly valuable historical areas of the city. In this case we established a questioning above everything: was it better to reconstruct the buildings as they were or could this be the opportunity to suggest new ways of living which are the properly response to the recent housing demand? The choice for this latter assumption has offered to us the opportunity to experience a radical change of perspective. We shift the focus from the abstract notion of “type” to the concrete way of being of the construction in its structural and technical elements. So not more the research of housing standards pre-established for the average user undifferentiated, but "possible" ways of organizing /structuring the building system that can allow distribution performances capable of adapting to user requirements. This new perspective introduces in the action of the design a strategic component which plays on the potentialities of the built space to be adaptive and it relies on the potentialities of the technique, continually growing. The answer modes to the question above are achieved from the experimental design and they are documented by some projects which represent the still ongoing Laboratory research and its aim is the definition of an appropriate methodological approach.