La Maison Fille du soleil. Hauntology as a tool for critical inquiry

This short text is an experiment in critical fiction, an investigation that belongs to the domain of reflective knowledge, an action where design fiction can be understood as a form of “reflection on the possible,” through which the architect can interrogate the disciplinary design corpus at their disposal, applying the research question: “how could it have been?”. The operation does not seek to reconstruct improbable philological evolutionary lines, but to construct a possible universe, an architectural heterocosm. This alternative world becomes a tool for investigating modernity, understood not so much as a coherent form of linear progress, but as a constellation of unrealized possibilities, specters of a future that never came to pass. In this scenario, architecture is the construction of an alternative world in which Le Corbusier is a prophet of a world built in concrete and crystalline silicon. Where solar energy becomes design substance.