In all the cities exist these bags of impossible urban boundaries are qualified by their importance and value as to all what makes contemporary public life possible: Leisure, commerce, communication, the market. Chez nous was born, by fortune, from one of those nutritive culture broths and it is thanks to the intelligent thematic interpretation of its responsible people that today we can be grateful for its position in the surroundings.
We visited an environment where the city is compressed by the saturation of variables: unstopping and chaotic traffic, mixed businesses, remains of what once were family houses, people and more people. At this point Di Vece has known how to propose a resistant foreshortening, firm, and extremely joyful to the sight and of a risk almost homelike. Inheriting a 6 meter tall empty crystal box, they were given to the task of building a main idea: to accomplish an urban actor that would tune and clarify the harsh voice of the context. The honesty of the answer lies in that it does not veil what it proposes, on the contrary: a gentle toughness, an elegance that necessarily implies differences and distances. But the building neither hides the surgery that it has been subjected to: all the tectonic structure inherited is still there, there have not been denials but rather a wish of being and resembling starting from what is thought and done today.
A subtle but fundamental generating gestures makes the interior worthy of frequent visits: a wooden box located in relation to the diagonal that visually ties the limits of the land accomplishes an effect of unexpected amplitude and always varied sequences. The rotated box welcomes the visitor establishing, again, the clues of the whole intervention: exhibiting and protecting. In this case, food appears at intervals, motivating to a paused exploration. Geometry is here the basic resource to which the rest of the solutions to the variables respond and make possible every space of architecture.
Every participant assists to a constant play on stage. People, furniture, food, light, sounds, etc… are all part of the argument: the script is served. They have accomplished the effect of having a wrapped interior, and an edible architecture to give.
