"Dooroom" from the domus to the room. Rethinking living today and tomorrow

The body of the house has collected under its surface and wall perimeters many transformations of its being. From the last century, from the autonomy of its wall perimeter made free and available by the use of reinforced concrete, up to the present day, where the Sars-Cov19 pandemic required the adaptability of its features in a very short time, the 'living has undergone a revolution that we could define as silent and invisible but which over time has gradually altered its image by changing urban typologies and standards into something different, something that still appears unclear and defined. The paper, therefore, investigates the physical and material change of the house starting from the functional analysis of its generative structure, that is the room, today, the starting point in the construction and definition of the city of the future. From the analysis of the Pompeian domus, crossing analogies and connections with the contemporary home, the neologism Dooroom was born to describe that place, no longer a house or a room, which better identifies what it means to inhabit time, the space of the present. The research starts from issues of urban transformation and adaptability that involve many Italian cities (Milan, Rome, Naples) and, by similarity, high-density and highly historicized European realities (London, Berlin, Barcelona) cities in which the structure of the house has undergone innumerable changes and modifications from the inside, without visible variations of the curtain or outside the buildings. Actions that do not compromise the solidity or aesthetics of the building but the quality required by the living standards and, consequently, the life of its inhabitants, becoming a topic on which it is necessary to put concrete reflection.