In the course of our childhood, each of us drew the symbol of family, domesticity and security in almost the same way. A common sign that today defines a place no longer real, but emblematic, belonging to an extinct collective imaginary. An object of memory, present in its formal manifestation now only in iconic form.

The non-places that usually host the dwellings of men in urban housing contexts are today far from any ideal connotation. Nevertheless, the symbol relating to them remains the same. Although the archetype is little more than a residual form, its primitive image remains inherent even in those who have never come into contact with its formal source.

In relation to the Earth, man defines the vertical of the right angle: our perceptive apparatus is based on it.
Architectural and urban planning are affected, more than any other creative act, by the stability provided by the right angle. To call this stability into question is to suffer the cornerstones on which man bases his security. The symbol of this security is a place, a container that every man erects at his home: the home.

The aim of the project is the realization of a residual place, barely surviving the transformations of contemporary society, its models of life and coexistence, from which it seems swallowed. The designed place is a metaphor for the resilience of a still valid model. It's not a symbol of his defeat. Home sweet home is a device-refuge for the defense of "human measure".

A square-plan house with a hut roof, built from a module of sixty centimetres on the side, made of eight millimetres thick Cor-Ten steel sheets, equipped with a double entrance (north-south side), two windows (east side) and a chimney (west side).
The factory body will not be flat, but will suffer from an out-of-team of about ten degrees on two axes. It will therefore be sloping to the west and to the north. The work does not rest on a pedestal, but the circular-shaped block with a cap-shaped section, cultivated in a lawn, underneath it, is an integral part of it.

The "armored" building behaves like a normal dwelling. As the temperature drops below 10 degrees, the chimney will slowly emit steam. When darkness arrives, an inner glow will be barely perceptible from the windows of the east wall.

It burned in a few minutes, on New Year's Eve, probably lit by a candle.
Of Arnaldo Pomodoro's Sfera, the large fiberglass sculpture (three and a half metres in diameter) that stood at the centre of a fountain in Piazza Berlinguer in Rozzano, only a few and unrecognizable fragments remain.

The Municipality of Rozzano, under the aegis of "Rozzano Città d'Arte", has called a competition for the realization of a sculpture to be placed in Piazza Berlinguer, in the hamlet of Ponte Sesto.
The aim of the competition, which is part of a broader programme of the Giunta to embellish Rozzano, is to return a work of art to the square and to the entire town, after Arnaldo Pomodoro’s “Sfera grande”, located in Piazza Berlinguer, had been set on fire and destroyed by vandals on 31 December 2001.
The Master had suggested to the Municipality of Rozzano the idea of placing the work of a young sculptor in the place where his Sfera had been installed. "I would like - said Arnaldo Pomodoro - to organize a competition for young artists who create original works for the square". The idea, immediately gathered by the Municipality of Rozzano and the City Committee of Ponte Sesto, became a reality. All the projects in the competition will be exhibited in an exhibition to be held at the Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro in Via Adda 15 in Rozzano, from April 24 to May 8, 2004, during the opening days of the Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro.
A commission, composed of professors Arnaldo Pomodoro, Laura Panno, Flaminio Gualdoni, Marco Meneguzzo, the Mayor of Rozzano Maria Rosa Malinverno, the Town Councilor Massimo D'Avolio and the parish priest Don Franco representing the district of Ponte Sesto, will evaluate the sketches of the sixteen invited artists: Giovanna Bolognini, Claudio Borghi, Giovanna Canegallo, Lucilla Catania, Umberto Cavenago, Pietro Coletta, Alex Corno, Salvatore Cuschera, Pino Di Gennaro, Eduard Habicher, Donata Lazzarini, Giuseppe Maraniello, Claudio Palmieri, Gianfranco Pardi, Paola Pezzi, Rita Siragusa.
The three best sketches will receive a prize and will remain the property of the Municipality of Rozzano which will permanently exhibit them in an appropriate venue.
The winning artist will be commissioned to create the sculpture to be placed in Piazza Berlinguer.