ARCH'IT files / Coex is interested in 'love'

[in italiano]	Living and studying in Hong Kong, Moscow, Barcelona, Coex experiences how the world is changing: people mix up, things meet and collide, public and private blend, relationships change and unpredicted tensions are established. Distance and proximity, compenetration, collision, contact and separation: Coex tries to explore the possibilities of a design approach which is almost indifferent to objects, but interested in the quality of their relationships. Coex is not really interested in how things are, but in the result of their relations. Example: I love you. Between I and you Coex is interested in love. COEXISTENCE OF FUNCTIONS The corridor is the bathroom is the library. Coexistence as variable spaces.	[15jul2003]
Flat1, closed plan. Flat1, open plan.	Flat1 in Turin, 2001. Corridor+bathroom+library.
	The pub's canopy is the bowling track for the elderly. Coexistence as superposition of uses. Bocciofila "De Amicis" in Turin, 2002.
	MHO – MAXIMUM HORIZONTAL PLANE The floor is the living room is the table is the bed is the bathroom is the kitchen's counter is the bathtub is the wardrobe is the desk. Coexistence as coincidence of planes. The project is the horizontal surface. Flat3 in Turin, 2002. DENSE PROJECT The existing space is small and delicate: the project is compressed in a single volume. Functions are concentrated in a dense space, the rest is free space.
	Flat2 in Turin, 2001.	Flat4 in Turin, 2003. Section.
	COEX PREEX – COEXISTENCE PREEXISTENCE The wardrobe flies one meter above a precious floor. Respect but challenge the existing. Flat4 in Turin, 2003.
Flat2 in Turin, 2001. Plan.	A new volume indifferently cross the existing walls like a ghost. Coexistence as intersection with the original spaces.
Flat2 in Turin, 2001. Plan.	Folded steel stripes float in the church, illuminating the paintings and forming a subspace. Minimum signs change the space radically. Painting exhibition in Como, 2003. With Toni Albertini.
	COEX COMMON SENSE Cook on the bathroom floor. Common sense seldom helps Coex. Flat3 in Turin, 2002. Kitchen+bathroom.
	The young lawyer is afraid of sleeping on the bed overhanging on the staircase. Coex goes for it and takes risks. Flat2 in Turin, 2001. EFFECT CLIENT
Flat1 in Turin, 2001. To the bed.	The client is a daysleeper: the entrance is directly connected to a womb like bedroom. The client's personality becomes the project.
Flat1 in Turin, 2001. To the bed.	The client feels disquieted on mezzanines: Coex hangs real brick rooms to the ceiling. Sometimes the solution is already there. Flat5 in Turin, 2003. With Attilio Giaquinto.
	The old antiquary wants a new space for his ancient Silver works: the shop becomes a rusted steel box. Coexistence and contrast between the objects and their container. Antiquary's shop in Rome, 2003.
	The client is not very tall: the home is raised to allow the view from the high windows. The most literal solution gives ironic results. Flat3 in Turin, 2002.
	The objects to be exposed in an exhibition about China are etherogeneous and don't have any relationship to each other: the exhibition design is a snake that swallows everything and takes its shape. In China, it was the year of the Snake. Design and Fashion exhibition in Pralormo (To), 2001.
	You and me, what does that mean? It means we’ll manage I’ll master your language And in the meantime I’ll create my own By my own. Tricky

	All the pictures in this page are by Beppe Giardino.

	Michele Bonino, Subhash Mukerjee, Federica Patti e Martina Tabò (all b. 1974) graduated in Architecture in Turin, after studying in Barcelona, Hong Kong, Moscow, Harvard. They teach as assistants in Turin Polythecnic and give a design workshop in the USAC, an exchange program between USA and Italy. Formed in Turin in 2001, architettura Coex carried out an urban design analysis on Hong Kong (producing a video invited to BEYOND MEDIA Festival, Florence 2002). In 2001 it was invited to join the International Design Seminar organized in Uryupinsk (Russia) by Moscow CCA. In 2002 it was a member of one of the groups (Carlos Ferrater) invited to the International Competition for the new Train Station in Florence.

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