In this category, we are looking at the different social use contexts of architectural projects. Working from the scale of the object to the scale of the city, the architects passes by many kinds of projects. The private sphere is personal, intimate. In general, in « private » spaces people cannot access, but sometimes in architecture, this notion is blurred because some private houses are nowadays accessible to visitors. We illustrate the Italic Home Design with the Casa Mollino by the architect Carlo Mollino. He theorizes the modernity: «Man is not functional, they are not machines.», that means humans are idlers and his interiors are made for their fulfillment. In the private, the architect is often the actor of the project order leading logic of evolution, interaction, and sharing. Closer to the public sphere, we can find hospitality design. Dolomiti Resort is used as an example of an Italic hotel. Everyone who pays can have access to a hotel but when the door of the hotel room is closed, a feeling of privacy and safety has to be present.

 

There is no clear boundary between the private and the public, it is a scale where the project can be placed either closer to the private, either to the public. The public is accessible, open for everyone. Starbucks Reserve Roastery is a place where when you buy something to drink or to eat, you feel home. Built-in an old historical monument, the origins of this place are mixed with the technologies of this place which makes its singularity. Italic materials such as marble and copper are used and make us want to know more about Italic materials in interior design. Sometimes private, sometimes public, places of art exposition are very important because the diffuse the culture in a direct way. The Museum of Orsay in Paris, designed by Gae Aulenti in an old train-station in playing again with the notion of private and public. The most public spaces are the streets, where some projects can see the light of the day. Piazza Istria by Nicola Ferrara is a central space between two residential areas. Human meetings are at the heart of the project usually in public spaces and we can wonder what it will be like in the « after COVID world ».