Large Residential Developments

Designing places to live, from private domestic space to the urban scale.

Residential design is one of the fields in which architecture most directly demonstrates its ability to influence quality of life. For Studio Lauria Network, designing homes means creating relationships: between inside and outside, residents and landscape, private space and collective life.

This vision runs through diverse projects in Italy and abroad. In Durrës, the Durrës Waves project addresses coastal living through a development of eighty apartments open to the seascape and designed to combine comfort, architectural identity and high-quality shared spaces. In Bologna, a social-housing development of seven multi-storey buildings focuses instead on urban community: homes, routes, shared greenery and meeting spaces become tools for creating a sense of belonging.

This trajectory also includes participation in Renzo Piano’s project for Le Murate in Florence, a major multifunctional rehabilitation scheme that transformed a historic complex into a lively place open to the city, with residential, cultural and social uses.

From the detail of the individual home to the scale of the neighbourhood, Studio Lauria Network approaches social housing not as standardised construction, but as responsible architecture: sustainable, accessible, measured and capable of generating lasting urban value.


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