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the project transfers to the building, traces and signs highlighted by the context: the predominant urban element is certainly the border, intended as a boundary between the garden city and the industrial city: the residence is built by compositions of borders, imagined not as inaccesible edges, but as open sequences of internal frameworks (the rooms) facing the city.

the border acts as a mediating connection between vertical and horizontal, framing the rooms on each elevation in a multiple pattern. it also constitutes a very precise distinction between the ground floor, urban, open and horizontal, and the upper floors, which are more composed, opaque and vertical in their wholeness.

this distinction reflects the defining mechanism of the programme, which places all the common and more “public” service spaces on the ground floor, blurring (in plan) from east to west the privacy gradient, from the meeting room, fitness gymnasium, projection TV room, reading and relaxing area, to library, study spaces and finally to the rooms.

the border therefore builds the elevations as a network, an architectural mesh (reiteration of an ever-changing figure), which corresponds to a mode of interpretation of the city.
this mode is also reconstructed inside the building, where the types of accommodation vary according to the flexibility and future adaptability and accessibility of the places.