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A SPECIAL DAY
A Genoese transitional space.

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).

project: 2018
completion: 2018
client: private
design: Valter Scelsi with Fiona Cuypers-Stanienda
structures: Francesco Testa
metal worker: Carrea Giovanni & C. srl (AL)
photographer: Fiona Cuypers-Stanienda