“CRISIS” + =

Crisis uses the Duchampian practice of sampling, focusing on the process of copying and updating rather than the final product. The project uses "The House in Arrábida" by Suoto de Muora as the blueprint for its updates. Muora's "permanent crisis" when designing the house inspired the concept behind Crisis, further explained by Edgar Morin’s quote.

The project aimed to put Morin’s philosophy into architectural practice by creating its identity throught questioning the two major crises every human being experiences - the existential and social hierarchical crises - and throughout the process looking for answers.

“In the face of increasing complexity, we need, more than ever, a simplifying thought; but one that is not mutilating. When reality resists simplification, we have to turn to complexity. Complexity is the eruption of aleatory disorder and of uncertainty in reality… We all know today that the future is unpredictable, given the perpetual intervention of the newness and of the unexpected. And it is for that very reason that extreme complexity has a tendency to resemble a permanent crisis”

- Edgar Morin