The Designer Of The Dream Houses
Officinaleonardo
1- Project for a submarine yatch capable to cross the ocean below the sea.
2- Two famous interiors in New York and Rome.
3- The flying house: a modern airship that allows to bring with you in your travels the whole house.
4- Emaar tower: the headquarters of the well-known real estate company in Dubai.
5- Leonardo Pascoletti, founder of Officinaleonardo, selected as one of best 30 young european architects.
6- Gallinaro house
Text from Rowan Moore, architectural critic ( The Guardian)
Pictures from Luigi Filetici
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While I was drinking a cup of tea the
of a fractal vision, attributable to a single
and a building in Addis Abeba. Rather
other day, browsing the web I came
principle.
than the series of the “moving houses”,
across an architectural firm that enjoyed
that includes a cloudy flying house
great appreciation about the various
The projects developed by
and a submarine one, or the new
pages and forums. It rarely happens
OFFICINALEONARDO begin with
proposals for some towers or buildings
to notice a new architectural firm that
the study of the living unit and the
headquarters of famous trademarks,
can boast an innate originality. I went
spaces related to the human activity,
Typical element of the villas and interiors
to look at their projects and in
of OFFICINALEONARDO is
fact I noticed some significant
the study of the space, where
elements, to emphasize.
various aspects of daily life take
part with their mutual vision and
The principles of this studio,
create fluid movements, called
OFFICINALEONARDO, are
in the studio “micro-urban”, by
based on the movement as the
means of the electric or manual
element of transformation,
handling of the walls, panels and
realized through the
sliding doors gives the users
visual research of the new
the choice of living in every
technologies, on the study of
single section in a separate and
the renewable yet not polluting
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resources and, on the relation of
humankind-nature, inserted in
the projects in different scales.
confided way. It is a reappearing
theme in other projects (like
as light and transparency) as
even if the running projects are more
well to have a full and rational use of the
complex, such as: the realization of
space.
In the development of the spaces
a big hypogeal sanctuary dedicated
created by the team, the principle of the
to Pope Wojtyla, the cultural-living
From all, between the transparency and
movement is expressed through out a
complex related to the project of an
the reflection which embrace the most
holonomic universe and the complexity
Indian chief in Peru, some houses in
beautiful views of the city, carved in an
of the joints in the space with the form
Romania and other places, social spaces
environment which suggests more the