firenze, a room with a view
atlas
morphological series
fragment analysis
individual buildings
graduation projects
jitse ickenroth
napoli, viaggio in italia II
napoli, viaggio in italia I
marseille, patchwork city
madrid, topography of power
milano centrale
antwerpen, de getekende stad
la città di roma
gran torino
münchen rekonstruiert
potsdam unraveled
berlin als modell
de rede van amsterdam
amsterdam langsdoorsnede
amsterdam dwarsdoorsnede
The Florentine Workhome
The project starts from a personal observation and fascination for the city’s craftsmanship. Workshops, botteghe in Italian, seemed to be closely connected to the dwellings of the Florentines.
The project revolves around a central research question; how can the Florentine relationship between working and dwelling be defined, and continued?
Backed up by literature research, analysis of a set of case-studies revealed two building types strongly connected to the principle of ‘workhomes’; the terraced house and the palazzo. The design experiment questions the useability of the types on a specific location within the city center and searches for a possible continuity of a traditional workhome.