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Even the most intimate and personal action happens in shared multiple locations. Washing our skin activates shared contracts with water and infrastructures. Lotions to prevent its aging make our skin inhabit labs where they are tested on mice. We are bubbled-foam-homes dwellers. There are no agorae any more, but an atmosphere of collective controversies in which we can take decisions. We no longer go out to emerge as citizens. There is no outside and inside. By committing ourselves with efficient energy or unsustainable expenditure we install ourselves both individually and as collectives as members of the public. We live in Parliament Homes ruled by confrontation, but we remain mainly blind to it.

Fray Foam Home comes from the detailed study of the dependencies and polemics that take place in a specific flat in Madrids Calle del Pez. A flat shared by five people with personal daily options. The installation is an approach to the restitution of the distant contextual fragments and public polemics in which their daily lives are installed. What becomes visible, critical, and accountable. What are the politics of design that emerge from opening the black box of expanded multilocated homes? That is the question architecture can build up. A local interior design for global occupancies, which could be detailed in three questions:
1. What if consumption and productive locations could be experienced simultaneously? Could we produce a notion of relational beauty, closer to parliaments than to white boxes? 2. What if we try to build with resilience and redundancy rather than with zoning and spatial specialization? Could a sensitivity to forecasting and optimizing be replaced by one of risk management and adaptability? 3. What if conflict could be politically managed? Could the management of difference and controversies be taken to daily life? Could we transform the material architectural devices that mediate in our social installation move from a territorial antagonism to a foam-like agonism? Architecture is often the device to promote territorial distribution in order to ensure realms of Sweet Local Calm. But it can also be a time for the architecture of daily realities to become compulsory pass points for the polemics in which it is constructed.
Coordinators: Alejandro Sajgalik, Walter Cuccuru Graphic Design: Mara Jaque Development team: Patricia Acosta Morales, ngela Bailn Lpez, Diana Calvache Martnez, Mehrdad nazemi, Carolina Silvana Vaca Manjarres, Sizhou Yang, Adeline ruiz, Silvia rodrguez With the additional support of: State Corporation for Spanish Cultural Action Abroad (SEACEx); UEM, Universidad Europea de Madrid; MATADEro-Madrid; MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporneo de Castilla Len; Ministry of Housing, Spain; Fundacin Mies van der rohe; Imagen Subliminal

Andrs Jaque Arquitectos, Fray Foam Home , 2010. Courtesy and the Artists

Andrs Jaque Arquitectos, Democratic Sponge , Madrid, 2005. Photo Miguel de Guzmn

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Andrs Jaque Arquitectos, House in never never Land , San Jos, Ibiza, 2009. Photo Miguel de Guzmn

Andrs Jaque Arquitectos, Mouse City, Stavanger, 2003. Photo Miguel de Guzmn

Andrs Jaque Arquitectos, restitution of the Spread-in-the-World rooms from a Specific Home (Fray Foam Home), 2010. Courtesy and the Artists

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Photo Dean Kaufman