4 Street Chambery, everything started here.
In this place my curiosity to explore was born.
I like to wander, to explore—not looking for an answer, but seeking to understand the essence of what lies behind things. In this place, I saw the snow for the first time. Not knowing what it was, I was not intimidated; in fact, I was the one who wanted to see it up close, touch it, even taste it.
From my bedroom window I saw it for the first time, then got dressed and went outside with my mother. It may be called a simple childhood place, but it was teaching me how to grow, how to move through the world. I no longer live there. I moved to the city center and didn’t go back for years.
After about 15 years, I returned, and I felt like that child who saw the snow for the first time—although some things have changed and become more modern.
The idea of exploring urban elements stems from a desire to create a silent environment—one that strips away the chaos and noise of the market to allow architecture to come to life. I use the supermarket as a lens to rethink how architectural typologies can be redesigned for a rapid climate transition. Although supermarkets are often dismissed as mundane big-box buildings, their current model of food retail—efficient and convenient as it may seem —is also precarious, opaque, and environmentally damaging. Because supermarkets depend on a locked-in food system, imagining a radically more sustainable alternative requires reframing them not simply as buildings, but as interfaces within wider, interconnected systems.
Piece of bread is a memory from when my mother, when I was a child, took me to the market every Sunday morning. From the point of view of a child who had never been to a market before, the presence of different cultures, exchanges and conversations—this place full of life—always fascinated me. What intrigued me most were the urban elements of the market: what enters in the market and what remains there over time. It is one of those moments where the world feels united.
Everything started in that memory. The book is an exploration of my world; in this specific case of the market, I focus on inanimate elements that stay there and slowly get old, a sense of nostalgia for the place. What I wonder is: How will the market look like in the future?
The inspiration comes from the book COL TEMPO by Guido Guidi, an italian photographer.