The project idea of C + C04 as knowledge and as learning process has grown thanks to the answers given during situations initially linked to the subject of home and living. The link between all our works is the abstract and theoretical perception of some principles that go beyond the form, a reflection of some priorities which can be declined in specific conditions.
In our "system of theoretical references", the search for the correlation between the form of architecture and the form of living is a central aspect. Each project is the outcome of a process of formation (during the action) that starts from programmatic data and context (material and immaterial, historical, cultural and economic) and develops to reveal itself according to unexpected geometries.

In this sense, the project of the Casa CU is exemplary, a single-family house that was born in the semi-periphery of a small town in southern Sardinia. Here the urban development planning had set few rules; among all, the distance from the road and side borders, which resulted in a settlement consisting of partially secluded houses in the plots and placed in the end of the bounds. At an early stage, these building regulations seemed in compliance with regulatory provisions. During the development of the project, on the other hand, the human environment was superimposed, an idea of residence that the clients defined as the sole request: the presence of a garden, with the patio, small, cozy, intimate, sheltered from the external world.

Therefore, the morphological articulation emerged from the distance and from the intersection between the possible forecasts and the housing expectations. It conformed in the intersection between a type of secluded house and one with patio: the first, substantiated by the observance of the distance from the borders; the second, obtained by subtracting the patio from an ideal, compact shape, which limits are partly defined by the volume of the house, and partly by the horizontal surfaces that cover the interstitial spaces. Thus, Casa CU presents itself as conventional in its relationship with the urban space, but reveals, once the intermediate threshold of the interior spaces has been overcome, a quality of unexpected living in the relationship between the living space and the patio-garden space.

Our projects determine an idea of space and form of living that sets man back in the center of his world, from which the avant-gardes had driven him away; he is again a creative agent and objects are no longer considered independent ideas.
This return to humanity is linked to an idea of architecture as a social value, in which we believe. It is mainly measured by the quality of everyday life and has to do with the comfort of living, not exclusively confined to the temporal sphere of tourism and leisure, but extended to all aspects of daily life.

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