Kyle Aguas

New Paradigm

Pier Vittorio Aureli’s Less is Enough: On Architecture and Asceticism frames architecture as complicit in systems of excess, proposing asceticism as a political act of restraint rather than minimalism. Within the context of Epsilon, this project questions the idea of multi-residential living as a compromise by investigating what spatial qualities contribute to wellbeing beyond consumerist notions of luxury. Central to the proposal is the “Service Matrix,” a consolidated wet-core that reduces domestic services to their essential functions and establishes a clear spatial hierarchy. The project also introduces a condition of negotiated privacy, where circulation through shared and private spaces encourages occupants to consciously navigate separation and coexistence. In this way, the architecture adopts restraint as both a spatial and political strategy, redefining how much is enough.