WORKSHOP
FESTIVAL DES CABANES IN VILLA MEDICI
ROMA 2024

DESIGN TEAM:
CAMPO (Gianfranco Bombaci, Matteo Costanzo, Davide Sacconi)
AA DIPLOMA 20 (Dib Charles Oscar, Layoun Sara Khalil, Liang Zhifei, Martin Rivera Paula, Meray Dila Aden, Sezer Asli, Wang Congyue, Caspi Oz, Chung Shanna Sim Ler, El Douaihy Serge, Haberstock de, Carvalho Luca, Tugnoli Tommaso

With the support of K_Alma Association and FERCAM Echolabs

Photo: Daniele Molajoli and NM3 (drone)

In Italian palaces of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the studiolo was a small study room where the ruler would temporarily withdraw from political duties to construct a private and intimate world that displayed his erudition and, therefore, his prestige and authority.

The students of Diploma Unit 20 at the Architectural Association subverted this archetype of the relationship between knowledge and power by designing and building the studiolo together as a shared communal space, a place in which to challenge conventions and construct a collective subjectivity.

The pavilion merges the fundamental elements of wall and roof into a single inclined plane that, at first glance, separates inside from outside. However, the timber skin, made from waste wood, reveals a far more porous relationship between the intimacy of the interior and the outside world, transforming the protective shelter into a lantern at night.