Tectonics for an architectural pedagogy. The One Person House project and new theoretical paradigms

This paper presents the methodological assumptions and the results of an educational path developed during the Covid-19 lockdown Starting from a reflection on the construction of a minimum living space, the design theme developed was the concept of a one-person house (OPH) to cope with additional lockdowns and social distancing in the future A process of research by design pursued through four propaedeutic exercises, anthropomorphically inspired and conceptually linked by ideal and progressive actions of assembly and control of measurement A pedagogy of design based on the material nature of architecture, following a construction philosophy that focuses on one of its founding principles, tectonics, or the art of assembly © 2020 Festival Architettura Edizioni All rights reserved