The domestication of natural forces such as fire and their daily use safeguard us from the inestimable strength these primordial energies have: we tend to forget that maybe the flame that heats up our coffee every morning is just the same force that causes volcanic eruptions and catastrophes.

We encounter these phenomena daily, when absurdly enough our short life span coincides with geological forces in evolution since millennia.

Denying the natural world and the artificial one as a whole is impossible; they collide everyday exchanging vital pulses and trying to adapt each to the pace and strength of the other one, often violently colliding.

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Cracks in ceramic floors after a seismic wave are the proof of a designed detachment between “our” artificial world and the natural one. The world we create is not able to accompany and sustain the everchanging flows that shape the other realm; the world we have created breaks, instead of allowing the other one to transform.​

This research aims to establish a parallelism between the extremely vast scale geological processes and the effect these have on our daily life and to identify the designed spaces of collision. 

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Which are these marginal spaces?

​How can the built domestic environment integrate the entropy of natural and artificial space?

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The floor becomes a primitive surface, turning into a limitless floor conveying aggregation around a fire that is not visible, but only perceivable through the heat of the surface activated through a device hidden under the tiles.​ The ambience of the fire is recreated through the evaporation of water on the tiles. The lines of vapour seem to have been generated from nowhere.​ In section, the floor is posed over a stack of burned wood, proposing an approach to archaelogical excavation and a stimulation of personal remebrances of times around the fireplace.