DF_DC . renders: © Ethan de clerk
The project deals with the question of dwelling for the elderly, away from the common misconceived references of either hotel or hospital, and instead imagined as a big home. Continue reading DF_DC
DF_DC . photos: © Simone Bossi
The building appears as a reticular structure perched above the railway, on the hills facing Lake Lugano, containing 14 dwellings behind its concrete envelope. As a project, it is driven by a reflection on the lifespan of materials and how they can enable a transformation over a 50-100 year cycle. Continue reading DF_DC
DF_DC . photos: © Simone Bossi
A house from the 1970s with two apartments is intervened on to both extend it and open it to the nearby lake, addressing the original lack of views. Continue reading DF_DC
DF_DC . photos: © Simone Bossi
In its suburban context, the house appears as an extraneous object of a scale difficult to gauge and of an intriguing character. Standing at the end of a cul-de-sac between detached houses and vineyards, the pitched volume in concrete rises devoid of any symbol of domesticity, carved by the cut of the garage and a folded roof, reading as a monumental, introverted form. A mineral garden path leads into a door, mimetised within the concrete frontage. Continue reading DF_DC
DF_DC architects . photos: © Simone Bossi . + wallpaper
The project is a series of interventions on a 1980s mews house in west London. Sitting on the northern side of a cobbled mews, the house had to be extended at ground and loft levels to accommodate for the young family who had bought it after being vacant for some years, without detracting from the visual continuity of the street. Continue reading DF_DC
