Carlos Sant'Ana graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at Lisbon's Technical University in 1996, and from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona in 1999, and now divides his time between these two cities. As a young Portuguese architect, and a former associate with Actar Arquitectura in Barcelona, Carlos Sant'Ana sees himself as an architectural "actor", too, a producer of projects, books and exhibitions. He is keen to "re-democratize" architecture by binding it and making it perceptive to the flow of data between local and global, and here explores the theses of flexibility and mobility. The "NUC - Nomad Use Camaleonics" project is thus a nomadic house made of prefabricated modules covered with a reversible digital "skin" whose texture simulates a chamaeleon's skin and its ability to blend in with its surroundings. Devised beyond any idea of precise physical context, the aim of the project is to develop a hybrid way of living in a house, which involves the household space, the city, and nature, too.	(P)
	S’A arquitectos Sant’Ana (Carlos) (1973)
	• NUC - Nomad Use Camaleonics 2000