ciro najle general design bureau

Motherhouse is a project of a house for (my) mother and conceived as a mother of (all) houses. It is configured as a manifold of architectural traditions, motifs, types, and models of organization, abstracted, and integrated within a grid that holds their ordering systems and opens them up to typological differentiation and to stylistic influence. The project is simultaneously a process, a procedure, and a system. Its organization assembles a non-uniform version of the free plan, a field version of the raumplan, an inverted dome section, a model of mass hollowness and spatial compactness, a self-similar orthogonally branching partition system, a vortex-like vectorial grid of structural organization, a concave-convex glazing-shading double façade, a cascade of varyingly tiny terraces, and an apparently aleatory distribution of inaccessible patios, niches, and protuberances. Its diagram diffusely but tightly interlaces these diverging singularities and local orders, absorbing them in a variable global continuum that coordinates exaggerations and anomalies, and projects ideals and monstrosities.