OttoFinestre
The House of Mirrors, a very large building located on the corner of two rather narrow streets, was built in 1960 from a project by Luzi. It is located in the San Salvario Valentino district, with a folded brick exterior enriched by an oblique arrangement of windows and bow window balconies.
OttoFinestre, a space born towards the end of 2022, has an area of 250 square meters. Glass slabs, black iron and steel structures that follow a pattern that enhances the vertical and horizontal tensions, rise from a floor excavated from an ancient dark gray marble, creating that contrast between natural and non-natural material, capable of stimulating the mind and imagination in a creative way.
Eight enormous windows surrounded by equally hazy internal showcases that directly overlook the two streets, favor the penetration of light inside the space, while maintaining its intimate dimension as a private home. The space is a demonstration of that concept of emptiness that makes “the reality of the container is in the void that it contains,” emptiness as a value in itself. The characteristic feature is the dynamic volumetrics, the projection of the interior to the exterior and vice versa, the use of continuous ribbon windows, in order to make everything become a single large space suitable for hosting exhibitions and shows.
A new center of meeting, confrontation and sharing, where culture reveals its role as a social catalyst and recognizes in art the desire, the game of uniting and reactivating the spaces in which we live, giving citizens the opportunity to explore and experience their active and participatory spirit within society.
A house that welcomes, hosts and protects and at the same time opens up like a courtyard towards the city and the street, taking part in the fervor, life and energy of it all.