Designed by the young Architect Leonardo Di Chiara, the mobile mini house explores alternative strategies for urban land planning, such as creating migratory neighborhoods dedicated to the new generations of urban nomads
aVOID is a prototype of a house on wheels that in just 9 square meters contains all the necessary comforts for daily living. The author of the project is Leonardo Di Chiara, an architect specialized in tiny and minimalist architecture projects.
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Inspired by the balance of emptiness, from which it takes its name (a void = an emptiness), it presents itself as a single gray room developed longitudinally and devoid of any furniture. Through the opening of specific wall devices, however, the space evolves horizontally and transforms, fulfilling all the most common functions of a dwelling.
The reclining bed becomes first a sofa for the study corner and then, combined with the folding table, a comfortable bench for two people. The wall leaves space for a kitchen equipped with extractor hood, retractable sink, hob, and storage shelves.
The large Schüco three-leaf window door on the south facade, custom-designed for this context, allows both natural lighting of the space and its full opening to the outside. A small bathroom made of okoumé houses the facilities and a shower designed to minimize water consumption. A retractable staircase finally allows access to the terrace, the most suggestive corner to truly feel like citizens of the world.
The tiny house movement, which started in the 1970s in the United States, tells the story of a new generation of people ready to continuously transform their existence independently from societal pressures, in favor of a more free and less constrained lifestyle.
It is this constant desire for change that inspires the architectural design of aVOID, characterized by two blind side walls that, despite seeming to not belong to any place, actually, due to their aesthetic incompleteness, make the dwelling adaptable to any context and community.
The development of a more fluid urban planning, capable of rethinking the social neighborhood in a less rigid way, is precisely the goal of the Bauhaus Campus, a small experimental village, of which aVOID is a part, hosted within the Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum of Design in Berlin. Within the socio-cultural experiment, curated by Architect Van Bo Le-Mentzel and developed in collaboration with the Tinyhouse University, the aVOID project is called to investigate the typology of row houses in the future possibility of creating migratory neighborhoods, that is, temporary settlements where wheeled homes can easily move from one location to another.
Twenty-seven technical partners have contributed to the construction of aVOID. Three months of relentless work have resulted in a mini home that is almost fully functional, made with materials from Italian and German companies that believe in the revolutionary impact of small houses in the real estate market.
