Istanbul-based architecture firm Tabanlioglu Architects has installed an "abstract house" for Interni at Milan Design Week, as part of the Interni's 2018 theme "Interni House In Motion".

Called housEmotion, the installation requestions the notion of "home" physically and metaphorically, aiming to remove boundaries of the house in reference to "placelessness".

Video courtesy of Interni Magazine

Image © Saverio Lombardi Vallauri, courtesy of Interni Magazine

The exhibition-event  takes place at three locations: Università degli Studi di Milano (the former Ca’ Granda, 15th century), Orto Botanico di Brera (17th century), Audi City Lab at Corso Venezia 11 (the former Seminario Arcivescovile, 16th century), a laboratory of ideas and encounters on the relationship between human beings, technology and innovation.

Image © Saverio Lombardi Vallauri, courtesy of Interni Magazine

Interni's 2018 theme House In Motion puts two areas of design deeply impacted by the evolution of lifestyles at the center of the research: residence and mobility. Two apparently contradictory concepts that the dynamics of today’s world have brought together, forming a single identity. 

The installation by Tabanlioglu Architects points out to the question "where is home?" in this age of rapid and continuous change; with reference to psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott "Home is Where We Start from". The answer to the question “Where are you from?” indicates that almost no one physically stays in the origin and people accept a different place as "home", either permanently or as guests. 

Image © Saverio Lombardi Vallauri, courtesy of Interni Magazine

The frame of the installation embodies the limits of the "house", creating a sense of control, where the semi-transparent walls gradually introduces into the outer environment. 

Tubes around the platform form the edges of the abstract house. Establishing a sense of border, compilation of the rods grant an optical illusion beside depth and openness. 

Image © Saverio Lombardi Vallauri, courtesy of Interni Magazine

Founding a welcoming interior like a mother’s breasts, with the soft seating units, beyond the imaginary walls of the house, the structure becomes a shelter; developing self-interacts with the family and the larger society the "house", with its simple form and minimalist design, ensures familiarity with compact neat details.

Image © Saverio Lombardi Vallauri, courtesy of Interni Magazine

Interni, now in its 20th year, has organised a series of events under the guidance of Gilda Bojardi, during the ‘FuoriSalone’ in Milan. A lot more than a design ground, a global appointment that brands Milan unique and extraordinary,  il FuoriSalone is a socio-cultural experience, composed of hundreds of events and shows scattered all over the city. 

Image © Elif Simge Fettahoglu

Interni brought together a series of experimental and interactive installations of architecture and design, the results of collaboration between outstanding international designers and leading companies, institutions and startups.

Image © Elif Simge Fettahoglu

Image © Elif Simge Fettahoglu

The installation is still on view at the Università degli Studi di Milano until April 28, 2018, 6pm. Tabanlioglu Architects is Professional Member of World Architecture Community and the firm recently won the WA Award in the 27th Cycle with Astana Train Station. 

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