BC Apartment
Refurbishment, 2.2024 - 4.2024
The renovation of this attic reacts to the rules of the real estate market of the large European capitals, where apartments are increasingly smaller and more expensive. A tent, like a virus, occupies the space without altering the original structure of the building.
The idea of the house is that of a base camp, you live on the ground, expanding your perception of space and sleep in an ephemeral tent.
The completely white space becomes the abstract and virtual scenario that hosts a few essential recovered objects, generic waste re-engineered specifically for the new shelter.
Ph: @louisdebelle
Set made for @sagg_napoli performance “Against myself for myself” in Paris
Thank you Sofia, it was beautiful to hear your words inside the dome
Manifesto 2025 @kaleidoscopemagazine@goat
1.0 in Rome
Apartment, 8.2021-7.2022
Ph. @louisdebelle
The space of the house is defined by the sole act of removing. Taking away cladding materials and superfluous partitions, the result is to live close to the original structure of the building.
The will is to erase the contrived bourgeois image of the house and to bring it back to its foundation, which resembles more the one of an infrastructure.
The original plan, characterized by a rigid spatial arrangement, is broken by the creation of punctual openings in the structural walls. The space is now open in multiple directions. The enfilade is dismantled, as well as the distinction between -servants and served- spaces. The result is one continuous open space exposed to the city.
The main new addition consists of a burnished aluminum cross beam that runs through the public spaces of the house. The beam is the main lighting element of the house and it acts like a thread that connects and keeps together all the rooms, emphasizing they are one space. This element reverses the relationship between what is structural and what is not.
A cross-shaped pillar signs the beginning of this system, it is symbolically rooted in the dark concrete ground and defines the entrance space of the house.
Only time as a material question
how long -or how briefly can a building endure.
The past is legible only as a present architectonic fact. Historical interpretation is suspended in favor of direct engagement with what persists materially. Within this condition change is understood as minimal deviation. The operative rules are those of an economy of means, evolution through the smallest possible alteration.
Final projects of the course I teach under the direction of @valerioolgiati at @usi_accademia BSc1 - FS25
Thank you @claudiosilvestrin for your words during the final reviews and thanks to all my students for this semester
Altera
A space-generating structural skeleton inclined toward the mountain, establishing a spatial order between landscape and urban dwelling.
SLA-3D printed clear resin 1:200
Ph. @louisdebelle
Final projects of the course I teach under the direction of @valerioolgiati at @usi_accademia BSc1 - SS25
Thanks to @marina_montresor and @alessio_ascari for being our guests at the final reviews and to all my students for being an amazing team this year!
BC apt
As problems unravel, hustles unravel.
Houses, words, women, and men, unravel.
Furniture, bodies, fixtures, and moments, unravel.
Empty your apartment and empty your soul; unravel.
White, white, and white all around. It’s snowing light.
Hustles of a side hustle of a side hustle, we drift along, as we unravel in silence.
Recline, sit down, stretch over, and lay; unravel.
The aftermath of a house is a life lived within it.
Art Direction @tommasogarner
Photography @teresaciociaa
Styling @elettrasimos
Text @lil__emoji
Model Valentine @streetpeoplecastingitalia
Casting Irene Manicone
Make up @_camillaromagnoli_
Hair @andrealemme__
Photography Assistant @now_emi
Styling Assistant Vanessa Ruiz
Production @timosimo
X > 61K
Taxonomy of a closed system
In Italy, arguments seeking to justify the existence of prisons or criticise their current conditions often rely on narratives based on data, statistics and moral principles. However, a prison is first and foremost a physical space that, more than any abstract theorisation, conditions the ways in which punishment is inflicted on incarcerated individuals.
Through an analysis that spans from the urban scale to the individual cell, the work explores the architectural rules that define this space. Juxtaposing found footage from contemporary Italian prisons with the tale of a fictional city of 61.000 inhabitants—the current prison population of the country—the work re-centres space to bring it back to the core of the debate.
Understanding and decoding the experience of inhabiting a prison is presented as a crucial step toward radically questioning the existence of the prison-industrial complex.
At @dropcity_org till 31st of May
Exhibition curated by @giada.zuang / @andreacaputodotcom
Video 8’15”, EN, Italy-Switzerland, 2025
Directed @sofia.albrigo
Assistant director & writer @medas.ness
Editor @medas.ness ,Elyas Lunardi
Voice @sagg_napoli
Installation ph. @piercarloquecchia - @dsl__studio
Sempre contatta
SAGG Napoli exhibition at @basementroma
One element, a steel net divides -keeping visually connected- the space of the artist from the one of the public
Sofias, crazy piesces, sport lovers and disciplined af - first space I built together with someone I love
@sagg_napoli
Thanks to the infinite care of @ilamarotta and Andrea
@curamagazine@basementroma
Ph. @leonardomagrelli
