I am interested in telling a story when creating spaces. I like to look at the relationships of the people who will be occupying a space and coming up with creative ways to communicate intricate details conceptually.
This scheme looked at developing a residence for Federico Fellini a 1970s film director, over a series of projects. The final projects looked at the relationship of Federico and his wife Giulietta and depicting how the public is deceived into the tale of a perfect marriage, which is sustained through the architecture.
Federico Fellini and Giulietta Masina were faced in the concluding project with the challenge of homing a mother and two Kids. I explored the changes and sacrifices the couple, and thus architecture would make to undertake this accommodation, without jeopardising the frontage of happy unity to the public and new family. Maintaining strict thresholds, the dysfunction and chaotic nature of their fractious marriage is concealed throughout, allowing both individuals to live separately in the same home, with moments to display their deception.
For them as they did not have children, it was an opportunity for sacrifice and passing down of knowledge and trade via the library and studio space, and as a couple, beginning them down the path of reconciliation. I explored the dynamics of this couple and how they would accommodate such a drastic change in their private lifestyle and how the architecture of their home could tell their private story.