Project by Hao Ni
This project explores Greek pasta production through a system shaped by moisture, sunlight, and air movement, integrating living and working. It proposes a residential building as the center of a community’s food culture, where environmental forces actively organize everyday life and pasta production processes. The building operates as a continuous atmospheric system, with interconnected spaces allowing air to flow naturally through the structure, which regulate humidity, adapting different zones to specific stages of production and living conditions. Three continuous long tables form the core, mediating between domestic and communal space across interior and exterior. They support kneading, making, cooking, and eating, transforming production into a collective act embedded in daily life. Dough is processed within spaces of varying humidity, with shaded lower levels for Hilopites and sunlit upper levels for Trahana. Cooking smoke rises as a visible signal of communal life, than everything is collected at the tables where people, materials, and arts converge.
