A MEMORY AND A PROMISE

The concept of the primitive hut is a critical point in the architectural re­search of archetypes. This is because the hut incorporates in its structure the essential and the eternal. It is the first building construction to cover the need for habitation. With this the light and the reason were placed against the darkness. The orientation and spatial organization were placed against the vast and unexplored world. The safe and intimate familiarity of the “in­side” differentiated against the precarious and unsafe “outside” unknown. It is a collective memory kept alive within groups by legends and rituals. It is an idea that is constant and potent from the very outset. 

For these reasons, with reference to the primitive hut, concepts are intro­duced, which are inherent in its structure, and are decisive for the evolu­tion of architecture. Concepts like verticality, center, boundary, relationship to place and rotation between light - shadow. Concepts that can meet in any architectural work and determine it. The return to the primitive hut and therefore the “return to origins is a constant of human development and in this matter architecture conforms to all other human activities”. “The return to origins implies a rethinking” of what a man does customarily, an attempt to renew the validity of every day’s actions, or simply recall the natural or even the divine” In the present thinking of why we build and what we build for, the primitive hut, retains its validity as a reminder of the original and therefore essential meaning of building for people: that is of architecture: It remains the underlying statement the irreducible, intentional core, which has transformed through the tensions between various historical forces.” 

Building in territories far from the environments in which we usually move is a challenge. It is an exercise of will. It is the possibility of inserting a habitable space in the domain of nature. The remote not as a limit but as a possibility, as a value, as a generator of domains and conditions. Finally, the remote confronts us with loneliness, with the awareness of our scale before the vast, the immense. It places us in our role in reality.  This primitive hut aims to be an alternative to traditional construction, in­corporating all the advantages that the industry of off-site manufacturing can offer us: greater precision, faster, less waste generation and, above all, greater environmental responsibility.

This primitive hut aims to be an archetypal work of art of the minimum unit, striving for an absolute ergonomic and functionalist approach and designed based on the human measure. Α modular hut which absorbs all the essential from the past and memory and it intends to be a promise towards a better future.