The title of this issue of Domus is "Playtime's over" and in its editorial Winy Maas wonders how humanity and design must evolve to face the changes of the planet. Starting with the climatic change, the protagonist of the cover story. To ski you have to go further north, higher in altitude. Winter sports and overheating: how do territories and economies change? Meanwhile, the fauna evolves to adapt to the urban context, where more than half of the global human population lives, but also 20% of that of birds. Menno Schilthuizen tells the story of a city made up of a mosaic of tiny ecosystems and more and more habitats in their own right, where a new nature is evolving very rapidly.
Domus 1035 on newsstands: “Playtime's over”
The consequences of climate change. London and Paris. How nature adapts to the city. The Furniture Fair. Browse the gallery and discover the contents of the May issue.
Text Frida Rosenberg, photo Marco Zorzanello from the series Snow-Land, 2015-2016
Text Menno Schilthuizen, illustrations Giovanni Bellotti, Erik Revellé
Text Walter Mariotti, photo Tommy Köhlbrugge
Photo Pierre L’Excellent
experimental models and more open and flexible typologies. Map of houses in Paris. The residential buildings, highlighted in purple, constituted at least 10% of the built surface area as of March 2018; in yellow, social housing of the SRU (law of Solidarity and Urban Renewal) typology in January 2017.
Text Rory Stott, photo courtesy DoepelStrijkers
performing arts.
Photo Chris Stowers © OMA
Text Eduardo Prieto, photo Pedro Albornoz
Text Winy Maas, photo Kike Para/ Ediciones El País S.L 2018
Text Ariadna Cantis, photo Elisa Celda
Text Peter Smisek, photo Tom Bird
Text Rory Stott, photo Davide Calafà
Text, research, infographics Stefano Andreani. Photo Dan Istitene, courtesy Getty Images
Text Winy Maas, Rory Stott
Presented by Giulia Guzzini
Presented by Raffaele Vertaldi, photo Daniel Szalai
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- 03 May 2019
Architecture. Two European capitals that have been able to face the new challenges thanks to the great work of their mayors are the protagonists of this issue: Madrid and Paris. Of the latter we analyze some accessible housing projects and more generally how the traditional forms of living leave room for experimental models and more flexible and sustainable types, with less consumption and more reuse, recycling and recovery. “Please, let's dream” is the title of Winy Maas's interview with Manuela Carmena, Mayor of Madrid, a city of tolerance increasingly visited, a reborn metropolis in which great importance is given to children, greenery and new technologies. Critic Ariadna Cantis explains how, 13 years after the creation of the Freshmadrid platform and after the crisis, it is time to return to mapping the emerging practices of the Spanish capital. Eline Strijkers and Duzan Doepel talk about their idea of a city of the future in which the values of a circular and inclusive society will dominate. With their plans for their city, some architects have radically defined its image. Let's analyse 4 examples: Antonio Palacios in Madrid, Hugh Maaskant in Rotterdam, Gio Ponti in Milan and Herzog & de Meuron in Basel.
Design. The CEO of Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven tells how design can change the world for the better. From Design Week in Milan, instead, we selected five projects as an example of what it means to think about the urban aspects of product design: "Everything is urban", even in projects on a smaller scale than architecture.
The city is a grandstand: just as the Grand Prix transforms Monte Carlo into a city circuit every year and the terraces of the houses into privileged grandstands on the most important car race in the world.
Winter sports and climate change: how territories and economies are transformed.
With its mosaic of miniature ecosystems, the city is increasingly becoming a habitat in its own right, where new nature is evolving at an extremely fast pace.
The CEO of the Dutch Design Foundation and director of Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven speaks about the social role of design, a conceptual tool to change the world for the better. In this picture Thank You for the Sun by VANTOT (Esther Jongsma and Sam van Gurp), Sander Wassink and Job van den Berg, at the Grote Markt in Eindhoven, 2018.
Social housing in Paris. In this picture Maison Edouard François, Tower of biodiversity, 2016
Housing in Paris. Traditional forms of housing make way for
experimental models and more open and flexible typologies. Map of houses in Paris. The residential buildings, highlighted in purple, constituted at least 10% of the built surface area as of March 2018; in yellow, social housing of the SRU (law of Solidarity and Urban Renewal) typology in January 2017.
Interview with Eline Strijkers and Duzan Doepel.
In Taipei, OMA experiments with a new type of centre for the
performing arts.
Through projects for their city, some architects – Antonio Palacios / Madrid, Hugh Maaskant / Rotterdam, Gio Ponti / Milan, Herzog & de Meuron / Basel – have radically defined its image, reforming established urban practices and bringing innovation. In this picture Antonio Palacios / Madrid.
Interview with themayor of Madrid Manuela Carmena who dreams of a unique city: welcoming and innovative in its urban plan.
Thirteen years after the Freshmadrid platform and after the crisis, it’s time to go back and map the emerging practices in Madrid. In this picture Gabriel Ruiz-Larrea, Alternatural tunnel in Llanes, Asturias, Spain, 2019.
FabrixCapital. From derelict buildings to catalysts of urban energy: real estate restored to life by the innovative strategy of a young asset management firm.
A report from Milan Design Week 2019. In this picture rug collection designed by Matteo Cibic for Jaipur Rugs, drawing inspiration from details of Jaipur’s architecture.
Every year the Grand Prix turns Monte Carlo into a street circuit and apartment balconies into favoured grandstands with views o the world’s most important car race.
MIPIM is a portal to a constellation of visions of the future – both positive and negative.
The OE Quasi Light, designed by Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson and produced by Danish lighting company Louis Poulsen, was presented last month at the recent edition of Euroluce.
Daniel Szalai, photographic installation. A selection of the 168 individual portraits in Novogen, 2018.