A new way of dwelling

Sustainability has always been intrinsic to architecture even though it has become highly topical in the recent years, starting with the spread of the environmental alert which has only amplified and got worse. Sustainability should be read as a congruence between proposed solutions and ecological dimension, in a general view of harmony between nature and architecture. These last months, where we have shared vulnerability and isolation, have made us reconsider the value of creating a link between collective life and nature. Pandemic, economic recession, isolation, social disruption and climate change urgently impose a rethinking of architecture, in its broadest sense of building spaces to live in, as a discipline that can face these problems with a long-term vision. The thesis that this essay wants to explore is that the crisis triggered by pandemic is an opportunity to restore the notion of sustainability in a more deep and useful way for the community, overcoming its strictly technical value to rediscover the humanistic dimension of sustainable living. The literary contribution will develop these themes through the presentation of residential architecture’s project considered as case study.