Urban habitats

Many people now homeless or unemployed due to the economic crisis have squatted the dismissed architectures of Rome, the Eternal City, revolving them into more comfortable places in order to live in collectively.

My aesthetic research is focused on the architecture and my perception of it in the urban and human environment.

What interests to me is the symbolic relationship between the space and the memories of its inhabitants, translating the traces  of physical actions that mark the passage of time into a narration. A photography that looks for the visible in order to show the invisible beyond the reality as it appears, a  threshold of visual and spatial perception.

Currently, the tendency seems to be  a general redefinition of the architecture and its interferences with new socio-political needs acting at different levels and scales.

The project establishes a dialogue between abandoned locations and the city of Rome,  where many people now homeless or  unemployed due to the economic crisis have squatted and turned them into more comfortable places in order to live in collectively.

Born out of necessity and economy of means,  these experiences are legally condemned but they also push the boundaries for a different approach to spatial practices  in a constant state of evolution from communities to the city space.