Pavilion for Home Sapiens®
During the 2025 design week, in via Fratelli Gabba, Home Sapiens took shape as a public installation: a counter-trend presence, designed not to present a product, but to introduce a different way of designing living spaces.
Home Sapiens® is a project that puts the relationship between science, physiology and space at the centre, with the aim of improving people's well-being.
The pavilion represents one of the first physical manifestations of this research.
At the basis of the project is a simple and fundamental principle:
"Living science."
The impluvium as a contemporary archetype
Inspired by the Roman domus, the pavilion reinterprets the impluvium as the heart of the home: a place that welcomes light, air and water to preserve the intimacy of living.
Here, space and time intertwine in a balance shaped by the sun, natural flows and the quality of light.
The day cycle as architecture
A central element of the installation is the circadian cycle, narrated through the four corners of the pavilion, each dedicated to a specific moment of the day:
Morning – the white of dawn, pure and delicate.
Noon – the intense blue of the zenith, vibrant and absolute.
Afternoon – the velvety red of sunset, warm and enveloping.
Night – the deep blue, immersive and silent.
These colours, oriented according to the solar path, transform the installation into a sensory map of time, where light becomes an architectural material.
Light as a well-being tool
The partner that supported us in the realization of the installation is Be Sapiens, an innovative SME that, thanks to its scientific studies on circadian lighting and human physiology, provided us with a new vision of light with relevant product implications that can be used to improve people's lives.
A dialogue between light, painting and structure
The pavilion was created thanks to the valuable contribution of the Piacenza artist Mauro Fornari, a visionary master, whose chromatic research gave shape to the four environments and their atmospheric identity.
A dialogue arises between past and contemporaneity, between archetypes of living and technological innovation.
A space that transforms
Designed as a flexible and open installation, for one evening the pavilion transformed into a place of dance, hosting a DJ set that animated the courtyard in the heart of the city.
