AEREA . Weekly series
20 drawings that reimagines some of the most significant public housing projects around the world.
Both an archive and a critique.
Imagining these buildings as satellites.
Floating in space. No longer belonging to the ground we inhabit but to a distant orbit of ideas. Still visible, still influential yet no longer fully accessible.
An iconic Brutalist residential and cultural complex. Built on a site famously devastated by World War II bombings.
It operates as a utopian “city within a city”, housing around 4,000 residents across towering blocks and low-rise terraces.
@davidaltrath photos were very helpful (and beautifully done).
Plus “The Barbican Estate” book by Stefi Orazi is just great!
Full list of references and all the drawings here:
mistermourao.com/aerea