PROXIMA CITY is an open conceptual and design platform that aims to substantially evolve the living experience of people in urban contexts.
Proximity and relational density are the key qualitative urban parameters on which PROXIMA CITY intends to define a new idea of the city, and represents the ability of urban architecture to generate relationships, to increase the number and quality of interactions between people, and to encourage new individual and collaborative behaviors, through the design of urban proximity contexts.
Emptiness is more important than fullness. The space between things is more important than the things themselves because it is the space through which things enter into relationship thanks to the physical characteristics of their proximity.
To draw the void is therefore to draw the proximity between things and to determine relationships.
The intimate space and the collaborative space are the two terms that in PROXIMA CITY interact at all scales of urban design, from campus housing to pod housing, through gradualness of relational proximity that modulates the relationships between the individual and the public space.
Public space is that space where individual actions and behaviors matter because they come into a relationship.
PROXIMA CITY aims to redefine on a theoretical and experimental level a different spatial, typological, and managerial configuration of the physical world of the city to make it consistent with current housing and urban behavior.
Designers, sociologists, web designers, managers, and developers are invited to share and contribute with their ideas to the growth and dissemination of this platform which is totally and structurally open since ideas are by their nature contagious while the individual applications of the conceptual platform that each designer develops are and remain the property of their authors.
Any designer can join the scientific community of PROXIMA CITY and be inspired by its conceptual platform, sharing its principles and aims and also contributing to its further evolution.
The goal is to destroy the concept of condominium together with the collective imagination and the deeply deteriorated behaviors related to it, to completely reconfigure the DNA of the urban housing fabric, through the triggering of a contagious process of urban micro-regeneration, allowing a behavioral transition to generate a positive imaginary of living together.
www.proximacity.com

According to Jacques Lacan, the great French psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and philosopher, man’s deepest and most profound essence cannot be grasped in words and so it cannot be expressed. The only way for man to understand the very centre of his being is through the notion of absence or of something lacking.
https://issuu.com/jdparchitects/docs/d__096-104_ai_148_triennale-di_pasquale_oltre_i_mu

L'Arca International Magazine.
Have we ever asked ourselves just how modern the homes in which we live actually are?

https://issuu.com/jdparchitects/docs/sulle_tracce_dei_nuovi_paradigmi_de

L'Arca International Magazine.
Ever since its founding archetype, Heavenly Jerusalem, every age in Western culture has had its own version of the ideal city embodying the notion of constructing a better world and better city, creating a parallel between urban aesthetics and social perfection. So, what about our age? What are our ideals? What is our ideal vision of a city and society?
https://issuu.com/jdparchitects/docs/l_ideale_della_citta__ideale

In Western culture a distinction is traditionally made between the fine arts and applied arts. Just like everything else connected with the deepest roots of our culture, there are profound links between these archetypal ways of thinking about our means perception, cognition and even our ordinary day-to-day behavioural patterns.
https://issuu.com/jdparchitects/docs/d__012-017_ai_150_j.di_pasquale_-_non_basta_essere

In an era where nomadism is the keyword that relates people to the rest of the world, Architecture, as well as other disciplines, is seeking for a concrete response to the recent needs, result of the rise of mobility and worldwide travels. Just like people move, architecture moves.
JamkoEdizioni
https://issuu.com/jdparchitects/docs/pop-hotel_revolution

JamkoEdizioni
"Do our houses really seem to belong to our contemporary times? Do they have the same technological content of all the other tools that we use nowadays such as smartphones and the latest car models? The answer is definitively not!"

https://issuu.com/jdparchitects/docs/scalable_modular_architecture

Residential construction best expresses the evolution of the Chinese lifestyle over the years and is one of the major problems generated by the new massive Chinese urbanization. The city main structure is easily recognizable: a large sprawl of buildings almost placed without a hierarchical disposition. In the various lots are easily identifiable several patterns. Only with the typologies study can be possible understand the relationship between the various political events, the lifestyles and the form. The contrast in morphology between the different prototypes seem to be a sudden mutation, but actually suggest a gradual housing typological evolution lasting over a century. 
Few housing types can be considered historically and critically dominant in the modern Chinese city. The book aims to guide the readers into the urban chinese housing evolution during the last century, through the explanation of the basic chinese new hystory, culture and approach with several examples.
The different types are then analyzed according to different methodological approach: a socio-cultural approach, which leads to the prototypes examination developed and framed in a particular political, cultural and economic context; a theoretical nature approach of the architecture, researching and highlighting the pure theoretical foundation that led to the birth of a new type in a purely physical and architectural way; a practical approach, the influence of a typological transformations on the different inhabitants everyday lives and its practical impact on the society.

https://issuu.com/jdparchitects/docs/pop_up_hotel_expo_2015

How to satisfy the growing desire of identity in a fully globalized world?
How do the web network create a sense of proximity to change the city and preserve communities and their cultural identities?
How can the emerging world wide language of icons effect symbolic values in architecture figuration?
What is next after functionalism, postmodernism, decostructivism, bigness and sustainalbility in architecture?
Are the “times of theories” gone?
Can the practice, the “culture of doing” and the symbols replace and, once for all, end the totalitarian illuministic approach?