COM PLEX RELA TION SHIPS

Edited by Alessandra Bergamini

The setting is that of an urban residence, in Italy or abroad. From the single-family home on multiple levels to the large duplex, to smaller flats where the plan does not permit big variations. In all the types, the project of reinterpretation and enhancement of the interiors has implied a rigorous, creative sort of surgery, grafting volumes and exploiting areas, in search of different spatial and temporal relationships. A complex grammar of modulation and shaping, taking the form of alternating levels, cubes, islands, voids, sculptural or inhabitable staircases, mobile partitions and curtains, paneling and decorations on walls and ceilings, continuous perspectives and openings towards the sky, terraces and non-terraces, curved pathways, rounded volumes and columns. Strategies and devices aimed not only at shaping new domestic zones, but also at updating meanings and functions in the rhythm of everyday life. Everything becomes more mutable and fascinating thanks to natural light, captured through large or scattered glass openings.