"A city of rooms" is a research work by architect Paula Olea Fonti that focuses on the study of shared housing, which is one of the most common ways for young students and professionals to live in the city. A popular and ordinary house, if you will. One that many architects would distinguish for its low architectural value.
The lines that can be read below are a synthetic extract from: "A city of rooms: The shared house as an urban laboratory".
The houses analysed in this research are exclusively from Barcelona's region, urban and anonymous, houses where ordinary individuals live their lives. The work investigates the relationships established between the house's spaces and between the house and the city. An exploited house made up of a group of rooms that share a series of services and common spaces, where the inhabitants live to the minimum, sharing the rest of the living space with their flatmates. A house, which, due to its reduced size and the fact that it's being shared, forces the inhabitant to conquer the city's own spaces, making the city domesticate itself.
