This Really Happened

Luca Picardi’s photoessay focuses on the outskirts of Genoa, Italy, enlightening the lack of any immediately identifiable anthropological dimension that reveals clear urban design failures. Luca Picardi (London 1990) is a communication designer with a background in anthropology, currently studying an MA at Central Saint Martins. His projects tend to focus towards urban life, exploring cities as a spatial dimension of peoples’ perceptions, representations, and experience. He is a co-founder of Look At Your City, a start up urban initiative connecting ideas, people and cities.

Restaurant, salle de spectacles, salle de jeux

This project is located in the space that was left free in the ancient saline, a place that was partially destroyed. It is situated in Salins-les-Bains near the museum, which is being restored. The parts from the socle to the paving of the ground floor are made of concrete, resting on two posts. Therefore, archaeological traces of former buildings are not affected by the project, the posts being set back from the substructures localised after archaeological research.  (Michel Malcotti Catherine Roussey Architectes)

Brick House / iStudio architecture

The Brick House, situated amidst rural settlements in Wada, near Mumbai,India, is a 2500 sq.ft. farmhouse set within hills and farms. The impact of the architecture of the structure is strong, leading the viewer to a new observation, not allowing him to be complacent about the space which he occupies.