Nowadays, what is being touted as innovative is still a fully 20th-century and industrialist architecture, which, despite its “green” disguise, continues to promote and endorse profoundly unsustainable lifestyles and habits. The majority of designers continue to design as if resources were inexhaustible, deluding themselves into thinking that merely changing building technologies or adding some trees or a bit of insulation (usually fossil-based, like the dreadful polystyrene or insulation!) will suffice.
However, there is no sustainable way to produce the amount of energy that Western society has become accustomed to consuming with its current lifestyle.
We must consider architectures that, in their construction, shape, and arrangement, first and foremost, minimize energy requirements and building systems. The myriad of vernacular architectures built over the centuries in various latitudes were primarily constructed based on climate and available resources. Modernity has replaced this multitude of building cultures with a single standardized architecture designed for a single standardized way of life based on consumption. Now, the 20th century has long passed, but we continue to build with these outdated modern tools: the overuse of concrete, glass, steel, the multitude of synthetic products that dominate current architecture, and an idea of comfort that is simply obsolete. I believe that the possibility of creating decent architecture today cannot avoid fundamentally questioning this “modern” legacy.” – Giacomo Borella

My idea of a dwelling is a house that makes you feel more like yourself, that makes you feel more. A house that doesn’t conform you, not designed according to pre-established patterns.
One that prevents the standardization of behaviors, the pseudo-rational organization of functions, that doesn’t express the limitations of the form-function relationship of the modernist mold, of functionalism, the absolute exaltation of technology as a consequence of the scientification of every aspect of contemporary life.
One that doesn’t express a standardized aesthetics held hostage by the market, perpetually renewing catalogs, trends to follow, easily taking root in an era of cultural crisis.
One that is not a space chosen personally, intimately by users, inhabitants, but chosen by the market, by mass culture.
One that doesn’t express a superficial and apparent ecology, exclusively in service of new building technologies seen solely as products and not as products of human ingenuity.

I believe that a constructed space should reconnect us with the elements, in an awareness of being a body as well as a soul.
Today, humans have a sort of shame for their physical, earthly condition, which “feels” all too much their physicality; their own limits, their own finiteness, and they are increasingly vulnerable, weak, and suffering in the face of the elements.
For well-being to be real and profound, the body must re-establish its ancestral connection with nature and its elements, must let itself be permeated by its forces and perceive their harmony.
Dwelling as Templum and Cum-templum.
A dwelling that breathes and allows breathing, that is a threshold, that is a permeable boundary to the elements – light, sun, air, water – that triggers multiple relationships within it and towards the outside, the community.
Openness as an encouragement to closeness, compactness, and the creation of a Community.