For many of us there is a time when we dream in a house on the ground, with a beautiful flower-filled yard and an impeccable lawn that the children run, playing with their favorite cat or dog. But how many of us know how to get to that moment of our really happy dream, satisfied with the house where we have invested financial resources, time and energy for a long time? What are the stages that we have to follow, what is their ideal order, where do we know how to make the right decisions that will change our lives, for good or for worse?
The ideal model to approach such a project, which we recommend and defines our working style, is always to look at the space from the inside to the outside.
Even if we initially hurry because we need the outer part of the project, the “casing” that we will see later, how will we decorate it, only after the construction as a whole is ready we will realize that the layout of the rooms is not the most functional, that we have problems with furniture, that maybe we would have wanted something that, in the initial rush we missed to think, etc.
Why is the most logical, more functional, faster, and least resource-intensive direction only from the inside to the outside? Simple! We all spend a lot of time inside our house, so it is vital that living in this space is comfortable and enjoyable for all family members. It goes without saying that we, as designers and architects, as well as customers as recipients, want to create a harmonious home project that delights the soul when viewed from the outside. But only the beauty of architecture without a functional one we do not know how far it will be able to make up for the constant discomfort we have experienced as its daily users.
Without minimizing the impact of a pleasant appearance of our dwellings on the outside, it is a priority to identify the spaces needed to conduct homework in full comfort so that for the whole family to be a joy every day at home.
We often meet projects that do not allow us to satisfy, through the internal arrangement of the existing space, all the needs and desires of the family. We humans are unique and, implicitly, our uniqueness will also be projected on the space in which we live, through an inner organization as personalized as possible to daily activities, to our way of being or to the demands we have, both from the point of view aesthetically and functionally.
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For example, a young couple who likes to party with family or friends will need a generous space to expand a table of twelve. But an active family, passionate about winter sports, may not need a roomy dining room, but it will not have enough storage space for ski equipment for all four family members. In another hypothesis, a person who likes to cook will have a multitude of home appliances and gastronomy utensils of different sizes that require plenty of space both on the worktop during use and subsequent storage places. Equally well, bringing the second child to the world brings with it new needs for extra space to efficiently store the trolley, the precursor and other such “equipment” along with all the things already in the house.
The examples are multiple … The question that arises, however, and which we should all address, beneficiaries, architects and designers, is the following:
“Do we have beautiful boxes, prefabricated according to external criteria with internal compromises, or think about the inner peculiarities of each family and give them the most aesthetic form outside these personalized needs?”
We let each one of you think about what you will choose when it comes time to live your dream with your eyes!
