FBA operates at all the scales of architecture, from the concept design to the technical drawings and building phases.

FBA is a practice of architecture based in Rome - Italy, with a comprehensive portfolio that ranges from urban planning, housing, office and cultural buildings to fully detailed interior design. The office operates from the central idea that good design creates space in which the user feels welcome, respected and challenged. We are specialized in translating complex programs into an optimal design.

Picture House

A dialog of looks: the house looks out on the landscape; the countryside – beautiful – fills the inside.
On the outside, the house camouflages, speaks the language of the surrounding world, made of rural tradition and natural colours.
The inside becomes abstract.
The outside tradition filters inside just like paintings on the walls.
Every function point has a painting to observe.
The staircase offers an internal articulate movement which is an invitation to discovery and experimenting.
It is an extension of the living room, a place to sit, to climb, to expose.
The staircase has small and big steps, it has sittings and ramps.
A chaise long for two, to admire the surrounding beauty.
The windows attract the landscape; they frame it and project it in the inside.
The staircase carries on the outside terrace, creating a sense of continuity between inside and outside, between ground floor, mezzanine and first floor; the same material is used for stairs, sitting, terrace and internal floor.
“PICTURE HOUSE”, like the old English cinemas: moving images, landscapes and changing colours enter from the outside world during the different seasons.

Location:         Ripatransone (AP), Italy
Client:     		P. Lister - D. Vandersmagt
Project:    	F. Barilari,  A. Barilari
Program:      	Project and realization
Structure:       	F. Barilari,  S. Catasta,  P. Antonini 
Collaborators: F. Schingo, K. Nathan, A. Vitiello, E. Mattiucci, O. Dani, B. Savignano
Photos:  		V. Barilari
Builders:		Rediw Design / Metalsec S.r.l.
Area:        	240 sqm
Date:               2005 project - 2009 execution

AWARDS

- 1ºst Prize Inarch Lazio 2010

- Selected project for the Medaglia d’Oro all’Architettura Italiana

MAIN EXHIBITIONS

- Venice Biennale 2012 – UTET

- Sofia (BUL) Triennial 2012

- Milano – Porta Venezia (UTET/G3) 04/2012

- Mostra Premio INARCH/ANCE – Perugia 05/2012

MAIN PUBLICATIONS

- EUROPACONCORSI (IT)- cover page 4/6/10

- ARCHDAILY (UK) – cover page 13/12/10

- ARCHELLO (US): cover page 17/12/10