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.