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general ones. A house where you could feel the reality of the universal laws along with the intrinsic value of utility item.4 Any house has its origin in another, prior and essential. I wanted rather an archaic house,5 so close to us as close to the origin. So I started again from the Greeks. "Is the origin the destination”?6 The elemental house, or the house of the elements, is the one I wanted to build at the center of the impluvium. 3 "Architecture" is composed, in its etymology, of two parts: arché (from the greek ἀρχή) and tèchne (dal greco τέχνη). The first part, arché, means "beginning, origin", a term recalling all the Western philosophy: it is that root which makes us understand what is invisible and yet more powerful than the visible, contained in the meaning of the second part, in the tèchne domain. The term arché thus assumes the more general meaning of "foundation" or "reason for being", while tèchne represents the real world, the set of practical norms. I wanted to combine, and perhaps to overlap, the