THE ALCHEMICAL HOME: A Playable Domestic Constellation

The Alchemical Home: A Playable Domestic Constellation
A project by Pier Giorgio De Pinto

Explore the project PDF online, or download it:
THE ALCHEMICAL HOME

Invitation
My home can enter yours through this complete, playable project:
– Print, cut and build the polyhedron.
– Scan the QR code and explore the 3D solids online.

If you open the polyhedron’s page on a smartphone or tablet, activate the AR Augmented Reality function from the menu and place the polyhedral sculpture wherever you choose: enlarge it outdoors and walk around it, or shrink it and place it on your bedside table.
Play with scale, movement and space. Let my home change size and follow your space. This project is conceived both for those who love hands on making and for those drawn to digital technology.
A domestic constellation that unfolds between paper, screen, gesture and space.

Project
My home is inhabited by geometric solids. They rest on shelves, tables, windowsills, and thresholds, quiet presences dispersed throughout the rooms. These forms are not decorative objects but active elements: small alchemical devices that shape the way space is perceived, crossed, and transformed.

In this project, each room of the house is associated with a specific polyhedron. The domestic interior is translated into a constellation of solids that can be explored, rotated, and activated through QR codes and Augmented Reality. Each polyhedron can also be printed, cut out, glued, and built by hand, becoming a small physical sculpture that extends the experience into the tactile realm.

This transforms the experience of the home into a game that unfolds from room to room and from polyhedron to polyhedron. Domestic space thus becomes a field of exploration, suspended between the familiar and the abstract, between touch and vision. The house unfolds as a mental map of solids, a playable domestic constellation distributed between physical space and its digital extension.

Explore the rooms and their forms through the links or the corresponding QR codes included in the PDF.
For a fully tactile experience and to access Augmented Reality, open the links on a smartphone or tablet.

The project was first presented as part of the group exhibition FLOORPLAN, Unit 2 Art Gallery, St Leonards-on-Sea, UK, 2026, curated by Rachel Ring.

Welcome to my home!

Corridor_Ditrigonal Dodecadodecahedron
A space of passage and connection. A complex yet non-iconic form that mediates between
different rooms, like a node redistributing movement.

Bathroom_Tetrahedron
A primary, minimal form. The bathroom as an essential, direct space linked to purification
and bodily truth.

Bedroom_Icosahedron
Associated with water and flow. A room for sleep, dreams, and the dissolution of rational
control.

Studio_Dodecahedron
A solid linked to ether and totality. The studio as a mental and cosmic space where ideas
take shape before becoming objects.

Dining Room_Cube Hexahedron
Stability, weight, earth. A place of nourishment and sharing, governed by balance and
support.

TV/Living Room_Octahedron
A place of oscillating attention and continuous exchange between images and body. The
form reflects a constant, never-stable tension.

Reading Room_Cuboctahedron
An intermediate, non-canonical geometry. Reading as a mental construction made of
folds, connections and layered understanding.

Kitchen_Octahedron
The solid of fire and transformation. The kitchen as a daily alchemical laboratory where
substances change state.

Terrace_Rhombicosacron
An open and playful space inhabited by plants and light. A flower-like polyhedron that
echoes living forms, where domestic geometry opens to growth and organic rhythms.