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.
Metabolic Home: New Forms of Cohabitation and Decarbonization in the Dense City
Lydia Kallipoliti, Areti Markopoulou, Post-Spectacular Office
