TOWARDS A SPATIAL DIMENSION OF SOCIAL RIGHTS. NEW PROSPECTIVES IN ARCHITECTURE AND LAW STUDIES

Abstract

Aim of this paper is to investigate places in the city - and buildings that shape it
- where social rights embed in.
The paper proposes to enhance the value of spatial dimension of rights in an innovative way
for both constitutional law and architecture. Architecture in fact is the presupposition thanks
to which human needs linked to social rights become tangible forms.
The paper assumes that the full satisfaction of social rights doesn't depend only on the
distribution of single state benefits, but on the social life that happens in places, buildings.
Therefore social rights require the existence of social links - as family, school, working
environment, social and personal life environment - in which and through which every people
becomes a person and express his-self as a person.
Acting an overturning of method the paper puts in evidence the link between social rights and
space, but also intends to create a connection between the architectural dimension of spaces
and the constitutional dimension of social rights until to arrive to tangible aspect of those
rights in terms of physical space.
The originality of this theme is the interdisciplinarity between both architecture and
constitutional topic, and sociality as key to interpretation of rights theory and space
morphology.