Duet

PORTRAIT D'ÉQUIPE

VIDEO (par l'équipe)

INTERVIEW
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1. How did you form the team for the competition?
The team is the continuation of a friendship born both into university and work experience before out master period. Here we realized we really share a common intent about architecture. We decided to participate to Europan 16 after our Diploma, as an opportunity to settle a first step for our architectural office.

2. How do you define the main issue of your project, and how did you answer on this session main topic, Living cities?
The idea consists in the transformation of a fragmented and privatized neighbourhood into a common ground where the limits between public and private are blurred. A space where the one and the group can interact and live together. The mission is to understand how collectively we could graft amongst private lands providing spaces for interaction and exchange. A new public micro-infrastructure is branched out into the quarter, and a bestiary of several pavilions is sprawled into the neighbourhood to define a new image (an amusement park metaphor) and improve the collective interaction. Starting from this, the apartment blocks are organized around the theme of the unnecessary rooms and the blurring of the thin line that divides public from private. Recent phenomena showed us how ‘unnecessary rooms’ are needed in the infrastructure of the domestic space. Ambiguous spaces in terms of property - public in their essence but private in terms of sales surface - are the elements which define the threshold between public and private facilitating social interactions and constructing a more solid sense of community.