ABSTRACT
The Stanza Rossa, the Dream Tower, and "The Pneumatic Bathroom" reveal a theoretical and practical trajectory concerning Marco Frascari's desire to develop and demonstrate ways of nurturing happiness through the design of bathrooms. The Stanza Rossa is situated in the northern Italian city of Vicenza on the Veneto plain midway between Venice and Verona. Through family connections, the Stanza Rossa presented itself as an opportunity for redevelopment as a house. The Stanza Rossa project reveals a complex union between memory, imagination and deep disciplinary knowledge. Frascari's vision for the future revealed in the Stanza Rossa and the Dream Tower is not apocalypse or high-tech utopia, but a future where buildings have a therapeutic function based on establishing a meaningful and healthy relationship between human and architectural corporeality. In the tower Frascari designed for the Dream House project, the bathrooms and kitchen dominate the plans, spreading their numinous presence throughout the house.
