Marcotti

Tobia Marcotti (Milan, 1976). He graduated in Architecture from the Politecnico di Milano in 2000.

KEEP MOVING. We are the life we live, the people we meet, the questions that drive us to study, learn and understand, striving for a level of excellence that, first and foremost, satisfies us.

Today more than ever, it is worth working as a team, building a close-knit group capable of sharing goals, dreaming and finding solutions. Giving shape to ideas through construction, leaving nothing to chance, is the common thread running through our work.

Architecture is fulfilled when it is built and used. Everything else is simply a means to that end. For me, starting a new design project is like falling in love every time. When you fall in love, anything is possible: you do not think about the effort or the fears, you do not hold back, and you want everything to be done as well as it possibly can. This is the spirit with which we approach our projects.

Then the work begins. It starts by listening to people and places and draws on experimentation, research and the lives of everyone involved in the project. At that point, you realize that the blank sheet in front of you is not really blank at all. You begin to explore the opportunities you have unconsciously created, and you realize that you do not yet fully understand them. So you study and ask questions of anyone who might know something about them.

The canopy project has just such a story. It began with the need to create a shelter protecting the entrance to a school from the rain. Then you realize that this is a special place, immersed in nature — indeed, a place where nature itself becomes an object of study and storytelling. The idea therefore emerges that the canopy could mark the entrance to the park and become an icon in its own right.

Simple functionality thus gives way to an object capable of responding to all these different needs. The natural quality of the artificial becomes an essential characteristic, giving life to a leaf-like canopy supported by a grove of slender columns.

The use of solid, authentic materials — neither painted nor layered — such as copper, galvanized iron, exposed concrete and monolithic granite for the furnishings reinforces the predominant role of nature in this place.

The form of the folded, ruled surface, broken down and supported by columns that are never vertical, turns the act of construction into a fascinating adventure.

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