Casalgrande Old House

Kengo Kuma and AssociatesEmilia Romagna, Italy2011Музеи и галереи

We converted a private brick house in Reggio nell'Emilia’s grassland to a gallery run by Casalgrande Padana, a tile manufacturer. In its adjacent rotary, we had designed a monument called “Ceramic Cloud” using large-sized tiles. The design theme for both the Old House and Ceramic House is lightness, thinness and strength of the tile. In 20th century, tile was used as a finishing material for concrete, a kind of cosmetics in architecture. However, with the development of technology in recent ye

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