The work of design is a critical act of comprehension, the writing of a text with an open structure. Conflicts revealed, program, places and contingencies lead to a continual process of discovery, creating moments of tension that turn into concrete experiences. In this way questions and problems are accumulated that become a critical resource with which to tackle the themes that are proposed to us. Research activities are carried out along the lines of these themes. They are areas complementary to the project where reality is broken down and reformulated into possible prototypes: the prefiguration of possible relations between the individual and society in a phase of continuous change.
The studio lives by a continual confrontation with experiences that spill over from the architectural repertoire into all the mechanisms and strategies for investigation of the real.

The studio’s teaching activity is an extension of the lines of its research. The subjects proposed initiate an investigation into the qualities of the spaces that are needed by a new social organization in order to prepare strategies of application that differ in relation to the scale of intervention and the field in which they will be utilized.
The instruments of the architect are used as a means of orientation in the development of schemes of possible relationships between the individual and society, questioning the limits and the areas of relation and casting doubts on the models of reference in a process that explores the prerequisites for changing conditions of existence.

Privacy e ospitalità
L’idea che una città sia ospitale mette in discussione il livello di privacy dei suoi abitanti. In questo senso il rapporto tra pubblico e privato, ogni tematica abitativa sia urbana che residenziale negozia quantitavimente possibili usi dello spazio e lascia ai progettisti il tema della qualità dei rapporti... read more

Napoli / Cercola
Il corpo antagonista / Perdita del paradigma del corpo e i labili margini dell'individuo / L’enorme permeabilità assunta dalla pelle dell’uomo, l’intercambiabilità fra le parti del corpo e ricambi meccanici o la ricostruzione mentale e spaziale implicita nel concetto di spazio cibernetico... read more

Di chi è la città? _ pubblicato in Tempi del 17/05/2007
Milano vive un momento di euforia. Dopo anni di stasi in cui gli interventi non riuscivano ad incidere sul tessuto urbano, ora una concentrazione di strategie e di investimenti liberano porzioni di città a programmi e ipotesi... read more

understanding reality • (being able to) reformulate • inclination of the mind vs. search for the definitive • the world, discoveries, current affairs laid bare in their mutability • breaking down • filtering • forcing into a delay necessary to a precise action • hypnotic ritual

parallel other • multiple possible outcomes • simultaneous different opportunities • effects of divergent actions • possibility vs. solution

an open structure that tests the effects of an action • maps, drawings, models, schemes = codes of language (other tongues, other worlds) • selecting the constraints, the conditions, inventing new laws of physics that govern the elements

stratagem • automatisms in the governing of formal choices • combination of chance and necessity • order and disorder • determining motions and production of forms that have within themselves the beauty of precision and of indifference

architecture as machination • crisis in the conventions of a codified space • overturning of forces • destabilization of the point of view • multiplication of edges and boundaries • removal of an ordering element in the composition • doubling of the visual frame • fragmentation of the constructed space

transformer • alchemist • forcing the material • redistributing energy • projection of the action vs. action/performance • new meaningful forms

creation of forms • sedimentation of mental visions • inexplicable • inexpressible • symbols of relations • visual ensembles • dissolutions • figures open to indetermination • vision as hybrid of virtual and real (ideal) spaces • background and sets of figures construct dynamic visual hierarchies • the observer’s gaze modified with respect to the observed • blind will