URBAN TALES LAB

In the same way the story develops over time, raised to the rank of told time; the building unfolds and stands in space, transformed into built space. Paul Ricoeur

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The treasury chest (2020)

An exhibition space design for PQV Fine Art, in the historic center of Cremona.

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An IBA Tale: Backnang Industryscape (2020)

IBA Competition: IBA27.de – Stadtregion Stuttgart. Backnang West Neighbourhood 2050.

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About the bed, and its spaces (2020)

How the lockdown is effecting domestic spaces? A forthcoming publication.

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San Galgano – The Abbey Museum (2020)

A Start for History competition.

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Archibard – a new term for architecture (2020)

Language must be updated rapidly to put our time into words. But, what if the creation of a neologism preceded reality to transform it?

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A Room of one’s own (2020)

As a designer, what will be the most important tool of the new homescape?

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A flat with a view (2020)

An interior design project for a flat on the Orta’s Lake, in Italy.

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Perec (2019)

One 3D printed vase for two souls.

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Architecture in sequence (2018)

Why arrange a long, narrow, dark corridor before a large, bright, circular room? How to induce movement along a precise path?A book that traces architectural theories and projects related to the concept of sequences as design method to arrange spaces.

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Industryscape (2018)

What is the future of large-scale factories? How they affect the landscape, how the people? A book that explores memory and narrative as design tools for regenerating industrial areas, using the steel mill Arcelor-Mittal in Taranto [former ILVA] as main case study.

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One day, Piri Reis in Milano (2018)

First Prize as Best Young Critic of Architecture (PresS/Tletter 2018)

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Behind the curtain (2014)

First Prize as Best Young Critic of Architecture (PresS/Tletter 2014)