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The goal of the project is to improve the distribution of space. The existing wall structure, windows, doors, suspended ceilings with lighting, and staircase are preserved in their entirety and enhanced both in their internal spatial characteristics and in their dialectical relationship with the external landscape. This dialectical relationship is achieved through a floating wooden surface on the existing terrace, which provides access to the sea via a staircase. The dialectical relationship also becomes visual through the existing openings, creating a prospective continuity.
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Three TOTEMs (Slash, Joint, and Sunshades) with specific functions and integrated lighting systems create spatial exceptions, define paths and environments with specific functional destinations, and play a strong role in formal identification. The external TOTEM (Sunshades) includes seats oriented towards the sunset, whose colors, thanks to a mirror positioned in the dining room, reflect and invade the apartment. The mirror (Sunsetmirror) dematerializes the wall and enhances the spatial contents.
The awnings (Suncover), like vertical planes, hide the window frames and integrate with the designed environment. A black strip (Blackribbon) emerges from the vertical plane of the wall and unifies the fireplace opening and the TV station, creating an integrated system that marks a direction of path and activates a dialectical game with the colors of the furniture and the Totems. The project is completed by a careful selection of furniture elements (Cassina table by Scarpa, Cassina sofa by Citterio, low table by Foster + Partners, among others). A design approach where simplicity is understood as resolved complexity.
"an integrated system where all the elements play a fundamental role in the spatial identity and definition (...). Perspective continuity and discovery are expressed in the dialectical relationship between interior and exterior (...). A design approach where simplicity is understood as resolved complexity".
(Erice 1976) He graduated in architecture in 2002 in Palermo with a thesis on architectural design, supervisor Bibi Leone. He was a contract professor at the Faculty of Architecture in Palermo and assistant to the Architectural Design courses held by Bibi Leone, Giovanbattista Magazzú and Marcello Panzarella. Since 2006 he has been a lecturer at the Villard de Honnencourt traveling design seminar. In 2004 he founded the Giuseppe Todaro Architect studio. His activity ranges from architecture to urban planning and interior design, with projects that have had national and international visibility in exhibitions and publications. On 19 January 2013 she met Alvaro Siza Vieira at his studio in Porto with whom she had a conversation published in Muratore di opera grave. Conversation with Alvaro Siza Vieira, LetteraVentidue Editions. In 2020 he won the international prize The Plan Award with the Courtyard Housing B project.
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