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Notes:
Today's homes have small spaces: minimum space for minimum costs.
Today's homes have very high ceilings and long corridors.
Today's homes need fluid and flexible paths.
Today's homes sometimes reject trappings, frescoes, paintings and carpets, outdated features:they must allow fluidity, speed and unexpected savings.
In today's homes, illegal appendages grow, generating dilated deformed organisms and legalised insidious growths.

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But in fact today's homes need to be bathed inside in light because often there is none outside!

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First meeting. June 2014:
The first inspection meeting took place around twelve midday on a warm and sunny day in early summer. We sat in the living room sipping coffee. The house measured 90 square meters with a 40 square meter terrace. As we conversed, thirty halogen lights recessed in the suspended ceiling focused on our faces and words and on our bodies, already overheated by a persistent hot wind - approximately 32 degrees with very high humidity. I asked for them to be turned off but the semi-darkness closed in on us, increasing our discomfort and impatience. I was disturbed by the thought that the discomfort was as widespread as a virus in many Italian homes, mostly those from the '70s and '80s. Those designed with the hope of volume and without architectural quality, those built 'in anticipation of' in order to then be transformed at the appropriate time, expanded and dilated outside as far as possible. I reflected on this Italian sloppiness and on these types of buildings, slaves of such transformations and amnesties of the State. The same laws that prevail nonsensically, at times, legislating contradictory situations: the important thing is to occupy, to generate areas that are wide in square meters - even if misshapen – and what does it matter if they are dark?

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"Living - writes Georges Perec - is moving from one space to another, trying as far as possible to avoid getting hurt".

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Reflections on the word:Spacious
It is a deep breath, it oxygenates the lungs and regenerates the mind.
Freed from rigid senseless meshes built to cage pre-packaged lives.
Amplitude is the light that loses itself in the material and in its details.
Amplitude is an open dialogue on the unexpected or in a beautiful story created from an image,
it is in the air, in the breath between the things of a home.
And the breath between things is light.

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Spacious: it is not a square meter measurement!

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Genesis:

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From these considerations my work is generated in the House on the Coast to the north of Rome of a young couple with their child.

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The priority request is to rationalise the spaces, freeing them from darkness and from the superstructures to amplify the reverberation of the natural light - but above all restoring meaning to the word 'spacious', anchoring it to the poetry of matter and light.

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This is a different house.

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I have always worked from reading of the city, of the neighbourhood.

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Here we are, though, with an urban stratification without identity and history apart from that of belonging to a period of great urban-building speculation characterising the '60s-'70s.

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I focused on an overwriting, albeit at times exasperated, where the theme of colour and of the sparse material fragment is used to fill the need for space and light.

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The use of 'Calacatta oro' marble, connecting material, in all the spaces and gaps restored density to these areas, embellishing and emphasising them.

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This was the case in the dining area with the alternating fragmented wall panelling with gold inserts or on the pictures-skirting board along the paths, on the vertical thresholds that mark crossings or on the large panels that clad the bathrooms.

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Movement through this interior is through new ever-changing landscapes not dominated by objects but by space itself.

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The entry threshold, as always a theme to be explored, is marked by a marble carpet.

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A vertical niche contains shelves with staggered holes: the lower part for umbrellas, above for everyday objects (a foulard or a scarf).

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The waste material from creating of the holes become knobs for the large doors or hanging rails.

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The horizontal definition of the house was entrusted to oak, with differentiated length design slats, two different-sized resin carpets and marble inserts.

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It is an interior that can be transformed and designed as fluid space, in motion.

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It offers alternative routes marked by the strong signs of the two yellow rugs, mirror wells of gaiety and light: they simulate the crossing of walls, repairing the existing fabric, environments as weaves, referring them back to man and to his movement:

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the transit routes are very important, they accommodate the dynamism of this small nucleus in continuous evolution

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The vertical definition is underlined by the paintings-skirting board on white walls.

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The signs on the walls are actually primitive signs and for this reason heterogeneous in form, matter, in the colour and sizes, outlining within the spaces of the house visions that are equally composite (marble or grey marine plywood on the walls and green on the carpets).

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They are all unique pieces, designed with angled cuts on the sides (at 75 and 45 degrees), designed to restore three-dimensionality to matter that is not applied on the walls but from these now seems to emanate, increasing the perspective, now falling onto the paths to frame them. In the two bathrooms, the large plates become the shower floor or sanitary ware finish.

Looking up a black electric cable emphasises movement and accompanies the gaze, framing the spaces as they become light.

The corridor (dual) created by the wardrobe, also leads to the master bedroom. The container unit is designer to be a generator of a versatile fluid space to accommodate a large container but at the same time to be useful space or a wardrobe for guests if necessary.

The opening clearance of the two doors is a strong point of the design: it is a diaphragm which in the different conformations outlines the perimeter of the paths, between public and private space, occluding and opening the panels reflected onto the mirror spaces, things and people.

In this manner I strengthened the primary concepts on which I had based the entire project: subtraction, amplification, decomposition and stratification.

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