We base ourselves on the assimilation of the city and its public space as a place of residence – a house – as well as on the uses and resources stemming from this assimilation by those living outdoors. The initial aim of our study was the para-architectures of the so-called homeless.
We created a website in order to represent this new way of managing, understanding and using the home, “borrowing” the design and brand of a well-known Spanish estate agent. Visitors to the site could look up the different types of homes available in the Greater Barcelona Area using the classic concepts of rental or purchase. Values such as safety, communication or home, corresponding to the traditional notion of a watertight, immobile house, created at a future date (mortgage) eventually led to the much more flexible idea of a house, through the process of selecting a dwelling by the user; an open, fragile, heterogeneous house of the present, that can be moulded to every moment and situation – created from the interpretation of the constructions (post-it) made on the public thoroughfare by the homeless community.