Living outside
From furniture to textile complements, surfaces to technical components, all the way to kitchens: the elements that converge to form the style and functionality of a house are now also being made for outdoor use, thanks to ongoing research on materials and production processes, to add unexpected performance that is often concealed in an increasingly technological core. All this emerges from our issue on ‘life outside,’ leading to various themes for reflection in design. That of the garden, for example, seen as a laboratory of experimentation in which to test artifacts, thoughts and hopes - as narrated in an exhibition that opens at the end of March in the Vitra Design Museum. Or the theme of building in extreme habitats: the high-altitude refuge, a house in the desert, a villa that rises to adapt to the rising sea level.
