一个特别的日子

Enclosed between two streets and the church, the balcony is neither a public nor a private space.

The canopy allows through its different levels of privacy and shadows a dialogue with the inside and the outside. With both the context and its inhabitants. With the apartment and the balcony. With the users themselves.

A Special Day (Italian: Una giornata particolare) is a 1977 Italian movie directed by Ettore Scola, in which Gabriele (Marcello Mastroianni) meets Antonietta (Sophia Loren) on the terrace - a real transition space in Palazzo Federici, the huge social building designed in 1931 by Mario De Renzi - where she takes the washing to dry. Just the nature of the place makes it possible to reveal the feeling between the two.

A wireframe and a white and gray marble floor are the places for light gray moving curtains, like in the location of an old Italian movie, or in an image by the  Mexican photographer  Manuel Alvarez Bravo (Sheets, 1933).

A Special Day is a project by Valter Scelsi, Fiona Cuypers-Stanienda, Francesco Testa, 2018

Year 2018

Work started in 2018

Work finished in 2018

Status Completed works

Type Apartments