Metabolic Home presents an archetypal program for inhabiting dense cities, conceived as a lived stage set where humans and other species—along with their physiology of ingestion, occupation, and excretion— become combustion devices and integral components of cohabitation. The installation includes a scaled model featuring nine domestic spaces—kitchen, toilet, lounge, bedroom, laundry, storage, garage, balcony, and light well—demonstrating how waste from one space becomes a resource for another. This cyclical process creates new domestic typologies and programmatic alliances. Habitation is reconceptualised as a process of transferring and transforming spaces, where dichotomies and distinctions like inside/outside, body/building, and building/environment are systemically transfigured and dissolved.
Participants
LYDIA KALLIPOLITI, Thessaloniki, Greece, 1976. Lives and works in New York, USA, and Internationally.
ARETI MARKOPOULOU, Neo Souli, Greece, 1980. Lives and works in Barcelona, Spain, and Internationally.
POST-SPECTACULAR OFFICE
ATHENS & THESSALONIKI, GREECE
Stergios Galikas, Veria, Greece, 1984. Lives and works in Thessaloniki and Athens.
Elli Christaki, Thessaloniki, Greece, 1989. Lives and works in Thessaloniki and Athens.
Evelina Garantzioti, Bratislava, Slovakia, 1984. Lives and works in Thessaloniki and Athens.
Collaborazione tecnica
VETA SA (Structural Skeleton Construction); Vasilis Bilis with Despoina Linardou, Theocharis Michailidis, Vasilis Mouzakas, Fiona Charatsari (Model Object Production); Post-Spectacular Office: Stergios Galikas, Nikos Antonopoulos, Takis Dimitriadis (Visual Identity); IAAC Digital Matter Studio (Material samples)
Team
Andreas Theodoridis (Construction and Fabrication Lead); Vasilis Bilis (Materials and Model Objects); Youngbin Shin (Research and Architectural Drawings); Theodoros Rantos (Projection Mapping & Interactive Light Design); Niki Kourti (3D Models and Visualizations); Andrea Tivadar (Video Creative Direction) with Bigoli Studios: Edward J. Bentley and Dave Phillips (Cinematography & Video Production)
Thanks
Vassilios Bartzokas, Design Ambassador Greece
Supporters
Columbia University, GSAPP; IAAC Advanced Architecture Barcelona; VETA SA; Alumil; Epson; IFI Lighting; Interactive Light Designs; Ekies All Senses Resort; Grupo Construcía; Whale Graphics; Kosmaoglou X & S OE
