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Bologna Apartment

Mario Montesinos

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Hall - Francesca Lanza
Living - Francesca Lanza
Kitchen - Francesca Lanza
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Innovation
Functionality
Creativity
Eco-Social Impact
Total
JURY VOTES
Colour
6.14
4.44
6.45
4.37
5.35
Stephanie Akkaoui Hughes
Stephanie Akkaoui Hughes CEO at AKKA Architects
6
4
7
4
5.25
Hu Zhile
Hu Zhile Founding Partner and Design Director at WJ Studio
6
6.5
7.5
6
6.5
Bernardo Tribolet Tribolet
Bernardo Tribolet Tribolet Head of Trend Scouting at The Swatch Group
6
4
6.5
4
5.13
Edmond Huot
Edmond Huot Chief Creative Officer at Forward Media
5.57
3.35
3.9
4.11
4.23
Felipe Mora
Felipe Mora Founder and Creative Director at F05 Studio
7
3
8
5
5.75
Ellen Søhoel
Ellen Søhoel Interior Designer/CEO at XBD Collective
7.5
4
7.5
5
6
Gabriela Sanchez y Sanchez de la Barquera
Gabriela Sanchez y Sanchez de la Barquera Creative Chief Officer at Vlisco
5
5
5
4
4.75
Serge-Laurent Haelterman
Serge-Laurent Haelterman Creative Director at Creneau International
6
5
6
4
5.25
Tessa Duste
Tessa Duste Cofounder at Makers of Sustainable Spaces
6
6
6.5
4
5.63
Jason Steere
Jason Steere MD Brand & Experience at The Social Hub
6.5
4
7
4
5.38
Stephanie Crombie
Stephanie Crombie Architect / Head of Sustainability at Morrow + Lorraine Architects
6
4
6
4
5
Comments
Innovation
Functionality
Creativity
Eco-Social Impact
Total
JURY VOTES
Small Apartment
5.46
4.72
6.24
4.24
5.17
Stephanie Akkaoui Hughes
Stephanie Akkaoui Hughes CEO at AKKA Architects
4
6
7.5
4
5.38
Hu Zhile
Hu Zhile Founding Partner and Design Director at WJ Studio
5.5
4.5
6
4.5
5.13
Bernardo Tribolet Tribolet
Bernardo Tribolet Tribolet Head of Trend Scouting at The Swatch Group
5
5
6
4
5
Edmond Huot
Edmond Huot Chief Creative Officer at Forward Media
4.61
3.9
4.64
4.16
4.33
Felipe Mora
Felipe Mora Founder and Creative Director at F05 Studio
6
3
8
5
5.5
Ellen Søhoel
Ellen Søhoel Interior Designer/CEO at XBD Collective
7.5
4
7.5
5
6
Gabriela Sanchez y Sanchez de la Barquera
Gabriela Sanchez y Sanchez de la Barquera Creative Chief Officer at Vlisco
5
5
5
5
5
Serge-Laurent Haelterman
Serge-Laurent Haelterman Creative Director at Creneau International
Verry hard to judge, this looks mor...
5
4
6
4
4.75
Tessa Duste
Tessa Duste Cofounder at Makers of Sustainable Spaces
5
5.5
5
4
4.88
Jason Steere
Jason Steere MD Brand & Experience at The Social Hub
5.5
5
6
4
5.13
Stephanie Crombie
Stephanie Crombie Architect / Head of Sustainability at Morrow + Lorraine Architects
7
6
7
3
5.75
Client
Vitoria Lanza and Marco Melandri
Floor area
75 ㎡
Completion
2022
Social Media
Instagram
Furniture

The human being has always been in need of generating virtuality as a liberation from the limitations of the present. We are involved in a fragmented space that combines the physical and the virtual, while the boundaries between these two dimensions become more porous, fluid, transformative and mutating. The real converges with the virtual in an assemblage of experiences, the physical and the virtual body no longer contradict each other, they intertwine. A hyperreality, where a secondary superstructure occupies almost the place of the real materiality.

Contemporary bodies are made up of the interaction of biological and social elements that show the system of identities as a machine in constant multiplication, reconstruction and destruction. This new changing notion of identity coincides with what queer theory already announced, the understanding of the human being as a construct of borrows, citations, proximity... pure artifice, resistance to standardization and reproduction of the multiplicity of life. A queer aesthetic that is not an escapism from the social sphere, but rather the map for future relationships. 

The domestic architectural space thus acts as an element in constant interaction with self-designed virtuality, facilitating the inclusion of diversity, the multiplicity of being and singularity to test new forms of life that allow the user to be the artifact of their own identity. In Spinoza's thought, expansion, transformation, development, and differentiation correlate with the freedom of the individual. A model based on heterogeneity, inclusivity and change. 

The intense chromatic range of blues and greens, lights, textures, steel, plastics and glass, pure and deformed shapes... make up a network of associations that are revealed in the interactions with the superficiality of the bodies. A superficiality understood as a means of communication that incorporates gradients of difference that modulate thickness, porosity, transparency or thermal absorption. In this way, the atmospheres or environments become a projection of the user's own virtuality. 

The tension between the materials and their shape evidences the design technique and its production, using 3D printing techniques with different industrial finishes, metal laser cutting, and textured glass. We all know the promises of 3D printing, individualized goods, forms freed from the limitations of modern industrial production, exchange of files for production at destination... 

3D printing acts as a mediating artifact between virtuality and reality, an extension of the body itself that short-circuits the distinction between nature and culture, as a trans nature in constant denaturation and artificialization. We find ourselves involved in a social compound in which the limits between living and non-living beings are blurred, a nature-culture continuum.