Home as Infrastructure: new 'Models' for living in the post-covid city.

The specific contribution (by G. Bertelli and M. Roda) refers to the materials of the applied and operational research conducted in collaboration with 'Smart City 4.0 Sustainable Lab' (an inter-university network including research groups from the University of Parma, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, University of Bologna, University of Ferrara, the Polytechnic University of Milan, and the Catholic University of Milan with its Piacenza campus). It reports on a multidisciplinary collective work on the topic of Smart City, merging scientific reflections and operational issues. The proposed essay, edited by Guya Bertelli and Michele Roda (and developed within the OC Open City Laboratory), deals with the new 'models' of living in the post-covid era, with the aim of presenting strategies, methodologies and tools oriented towards the studies of architectural and urban regeneration, after the state of ‘emergency’. Starting from this assumption, it introduces the debate on the concept of "house-infrastructure", in a perspective that understands the project of the "house" - especially the public one - no longer within a 'submissive and defensive' logic, but within of an open and projective vision, which reinterprets it as a generating principle of urban form. In this way it is not proposed as an 'isolated model', but as a design process capable of integrating with consolidated habitats, of regenerating obsolete areas, of building new forms of participation for a complex and inclusive society. A society that thinks of 'domestic' space as a complex device and integrated, capable of establishing multiple relationships between city and society, between built spaces and urban connectivity, between nature and flows, in line with the objectives of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development of the United Nations.