House Fendi | celoria Architects

The Enigma of the Labyrinth Rome / Italy / 2018

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The project is the outcome of a desire to experience a nomadic space, in constant movement.


The house thus transforms into a fluid labyrinth, where forms naturally follow one another and every environment becomes part of an ongoing narrative, always open to interpretation.


The house tells the story of a journey made of discoveries, returns, and detours.


The nomad reads the space with an open gaze, transforms it, animates it.


Thus, the house moves, adapts, changes, welcomes.


It is alive.


 


To interpret space is to intuit a feeling.


It is to inhabit not just a place, but an experience.


 


It is designed for those who move, those who observe, those who cross through.


Every gesture, every pause, every passage becomes part of a silent choreography.


The city remains outside, isolated.


 


In this moving organism, all infrastructures are contained within blocks that conceal intimate spaces.


To access them, one crosses a threshold: a passage that is not only physical but also symbolic.


From the moving exterior, one enters a collected, almost static, suspended condition.


Inside, the space shapes itself with precision and softness around the needs of its inhabitants.


It becomes plastic, ductile, open to transformation.


 


The void is an integral part of the project.


Not as an absence, but as a silent presence that accompanies, guides, and suggests.


In the labyrinth, one continuously gets lost and found, along a path without a beginning or an end, living through transitions.


 


Every element is integrated, every detail hidden.


Flush doors, solid volumes, and continuous surfaces create an abstract, essential environment, where architecture steps back to make room for life.


 


And thus, in this delicate balance between form and perception, dwelling becomes a poetic experience.


A space that welcomes, listens, and slowly dissolves, leaving only the memory of a gesture, like a line traced in the sand, like the recollection of a passage.


Only when stepping outside does one find oneself in the city again, surrounded by Roman domes, the emptiness of nearby squares, and the full beauty of Palazzo Farnese.

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    The project is the outcome of a desire to experience a nomadic space, in constant movement. The house thus transforms into a fluid labyrinth, where forms naturally follow one another and every environment becomes part of an ongoing narrative, always open to interpretation. The house tells the story of a journey made of discoveries, returns, and detours. The nomad reads the space with an open gaze, transforms it, animates it. Thus, the house moves, adapts, changes, welcomes. It is...

    Project details
    • Year 2018
    • Work finished in 2018
    • Client Fendi
    • Status Completed works
    • Type Apartments / Single-family residence / Interior design / Lofts/Penthouses / Recovery/Restoration of Historic Buildings / Residential renovation / Adaptive reuse
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