Abitare No. 411

Extract from the article “Architettura Stratificata”

“Memory is the key to interpreting a home-office that exploits the stratification of the historic city in its vertical development…”

[ … This house is on the oldest street in the city and the apartment is in what was once a thirteenth-century convent. The structure taps into the urban stratification with everything developing vertically…

The extremely complex spatial design finds its fulcrum in the flights of stairs, conceived as a discreet presence, generating curvilinear corridors which, alluding to an apsidal form, reaffirm the theme of memory… ]

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