FUTURE ISLANDS

Based on the theses of “Home Economics”, presented by Shumi Bose, Jack Self und Finn Williams at the Biennale di Architettura di Venezia 2016 this research makes new types of housing and settlements a subject of discussion. The exhibition proposes five new models for domestic life, curated through time of domestic occupancy. Through five distinct periods (hours, days, months, years and decades) it argues that by designing with time (as opposed to space) we can overturn the functionalist perspective in western architecture and reinstate a rationalist understanding of dwelling.
 
Urban Nomads develops these prototypes further, by designing innovative ground floor plans and creative spatial relations in a specific context. Relatively small and by a certain function dominated islands are perfect cases studies to distinguish inhabitants by temporally limited visitors. The new developed typologies are characterized by compact private areas and flexible, appropriated spaces. The transition between public and private space offers complex and undefined spatial categories. The balanced interaction convinced on different scale levels and ensures the quality of the urban design plan, corresponding sensitively with the characteristic landscape.
Urban Nomads presented and evaluated the results of this project at the „Island Cities and Urban Archipelagos“ conference in November 2018 on Madeira and will publish the summery in the Island Studies Journal.
Case Studies
Case Study Lampedusa
Case Study Wadden Island (Schiermonnikoog)
Case Study Cala Maillor (Mallorca)
Case Study Polder Pioneers Part 2 (Noordoostpolder)
Case Study Floating Cities
Research Partner
Loris De Filippi, president Medici Senza Frontiere Italia, Rome 
Saxion University, department of Urban Design
TH München, FK 01 Architektur  
Prof. Lucija Ažman Momirski, Ph.D., faculty of architecture, University of Ljubljana
Prof. Tom Nielsen, PhD, urban and landscape planning, Aarhus School of Architecture
Nicola Rainisio, Ph.D, social and environmental psychologist, University of Milano
Nino Taranto, Archivo Storico di Lampedusa
Pasqual Bendicho, SUMO Arquitectes, Barcelona
Rosalba Ferbo, architect, Verona
Thijs van den Berg, Schiermonnikoog
Livia Corbo, journalist, Milano
Publications
LOEPER Nicoline, OTT Matthias: Leren van Lampedusa,
In: de Blauwe Kamer (2017), Nr.2, p. 88
KAŹMIERCZAK Justyna, LOEPER Nicoline, OTT Matthias: Beter wonen voor iedereen op Lampedusa.
In: de Blauwe Kamer (2017), Nr.2, p. 89
AZMAN MOMIRZKI, Lucija (eds.), Waterfront Redevelopment – Izola east,
Ljubljana: CIP, 2013, p. 70 -71
Lectures
“Sustainable urban archipelagos”, Matthias Ott, Congress „Island Cities and Urban Archipelagos“, Funchal, November 2017
“Future Islands”, Matthias Ott, Nicoline Loeper, Urban Dialogue,
Saxion University Deventer. January 2017
“Tidelands Islands” Matthias Ott, Nicoline Loeper, Design Week,
Saxion University Deventer, April 2016
“Polder Pioneers Part 2” Matthias Ott, Nicoline Loeper, Design Week,
Saxion University Deventer, April 2015,
Research period: April 2015 - dato
Research volume: € 77.000.-
'home economics' British pavillion Biennale 2016
Refief, Renato Rizzi at Biennale 2016
Model Lampedusa
'Future islands' New Zealand pavillion Biennale 2016
design of new housing typology, Justyna Kaźmierczak