Agape between dream, memory and well-being

The usual series of mythological vicissitudes led to the birth of Asclepius. Son of Apollo (according to some sources), he became known as the god of medicine. His fame started to spread around 300 b. C. and large numbers of pilgrims came to stay at his asklepieia looking for solace. They spent the night and recounted their dreams to the augurs on awaking, in order to get an interpretation of their meaning. The cures prescribed usually involved a visit to the thermae or to the gymnasium. Dream and memory. Delving deeper into the mythology, we find that Hygieia, Meditrina and Panacea, who symbolise cleanliness, medicine and healing, were three of Asclepius’s daughters - a kinship that clearly sanctions the close relationship between dreams and physical well-being. The interior shows the In-Out bathtub and basin (design: Benedini Associati) reflected in a large number of Jet mirrors (design: Konstantin Grcic): a contemporary asklepieion for metropolitan dreamers offering an exhaustive but jagged reflection of reality, and new unprecedented points of view. Here, the domestic merges with the metropolitan, in a platonic relationship of dreamy fragments, as in a controlled waking dream.

A house turns its back on the road to open up to the landscape

The single-family house project designed by Elena Gianesini engages in a dialogue with the Vicenza landscape, combining tranquility and contemporary style through essential geometries and the Mazzonetto metal roofing.

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