NONE OF THESE

"If we were to describe our street in the manner of Georges Perec, we might start by counting how many buildings are in the street, describing the door of the bar next to the supermarket, the window beside that door and the hand that is cleaning the window, the texture of the street, the cigarettes that lie in that street, the leaves near the cigarettes. But how can we represent it in a visual way? With photographs, drawings, models or all of these at the same time? The need for representation techniques that create a context for the viewer and transmit and communicate dreams and projects has a long history. It has guided architects and artists to researching the best ways to communicate their innermost thoughts, just as Giovanni Battista Piranesi did when he transformed reality with his Carceri d’invenzione, or “Imaginary Prisons”."

- http://www.domusweb.it/en/architecture/from-line-to-hyperreality/

"The building withdraws itself from the urban stranglehold, achieving a “residential intimacy” through its refusal of a frontal facing of the street. The residents can communicate freely and develop the relations they desire as each resident is within reach of the other without any road to cross. The building is thus posited by its designers as “an inside village within the town but still open towards others."

- http://www.domusweb.it/en/news/stephane-maupin-nicolas-hugon-m-building-/