An artist’s house represents more than a workplace: it is the place from where dreams, thoughts and ideas turn into Art.
The last project of the first year required us to design a cube house with three main functions: workspace, exhibition and home. My choice was to design a stained-glass house – a place in which light, reflections and colours could playfully combine.
The house features two types of spaces, with different characteristics. On the one side, with glass ‘drawers’ projecting on the facades, the exhibition area, situated on the ground floor and the first floor, and the living area, on the second floor, represent the extroverted side of the artist’s life, his expression in the outside world. On the other side, the center of the house is dedicated to his three-level workspace – which, for an artist, is also a place for dreaming, for creating, it is a place where the soul can express through beautiful works of art.
For passionate artists, artwork represents the axis mundi of their life. Therefore, while the outer shell, the exhibition and living areas, express the tendency of expansion, of detachment, the central, introverted space is what keeps them all united.
An artist’s house should be an artwork itself, a symbol of his or her personality. And I think that the complex inner life is what truly differentiates artists from other people: always looking both within themselves for ideas and also to the outside world, reflected through their creations and receiving their message.
