art. 925 Birch structure in pomegranate red,

composed of four sides:

- two sides with black elastic panels fastened

to metal structure, to be used as access

- one side with an undulating distorting stainless

steel panel

- one side with a one-way mirror on an MDF panel

145 x 145 x 127 cm

The word “piazza” (town square) is used to designate the typical Italian place that symbolically

represents encounters and being part of and creating a community. The piazza is a place of

meetings, exchanges, pauses, and discoveries, a place where there may be many people

or just a few, where you can spend time in groups or separate yourself from them.

It’s an inviting space, a space of daily transits and pauses, and lends itself to assemblies

of adults and children, becoming the setting and stage for parties, theatrical productions,

and cultural initiatives.

The piazza is therefore characterized by a sort of pulsing rhythm, alternately full and

empty, quiet and noisy, where children can encounter many opportunities for meeting,

playing, creating stories, making discoveries, dressing up in fabrics, colors and lights,

creating a theater, playing with shadows, reflecting, multiplying and modifying their own

image. It’s a multipurpose space even though it is highly characterized in its cultural and

educational aspects.

A big box that contains... what? Children are

attracted to it and curious about it and try

to enter, but they can only do so by passing

through the opening of elastic panels.

Each wall of the cube is a presence that

amazes and amuses: How come when

I’m inside I can see you but you can’t

see me? A one-way mirror on one side

of the cube allows this to happen, like

the distorting undulating side enables

another discovery.

The inside of the cube becomes a refuge

where you can see without being seen,

while the outside is like a “skin” that unleashes

perceptions, sensations, and fun