The project presented is within the context of some of the problems and new needs of habitat and mobility that will beset our society. This hyper-massive society localised in specific nuclei of the geography – the big cities, which focus the physical and cultural energy of the world – is reaching its limit. New actions in the field of housing have to be in favour of the individual and their condition. We have to find new, more flexible forms of habitat that offer us the highest number possible of experiences.
The format of housing that has been chosen has its background in the American culture of motor-homes and in the nomadic practices associated with the train or more modern phenomena such as the communes of Berlin and San Francisco. Consequently, the theoretical and conceptual basis of the project can be found in references to recognised authors in the field of history, anthropology and philosophy.
As the motif of the project, the railway carriage follows the path of life in a constant change of perspectives, views, colours and textures. It makes us return to the nomadic essence that we gave up to immerse ourselves in today’s pathetic sedentariness. We have lost all curiosity for slow travel: everything is done in a hurry, without contemplating the journey or meditating on the experience.
