ARIU+VALLINO ARCHITECTS

Ariu+Vallino Architects is innovative architecture and urban design office working globally as one office from two locations; Varazze and Savona in Italy. Vincenzo Ariu leads the office with senior partner Sabrina Vallino. Ariu+Vallino Architects is internationally-honored with architecture’s most prestigious awards, publications and exhibitions for excellence in design. Ariu+Vallino Architects has realized architectural works nationally, with extensive experience in the landscape and residential work. Other projects include retail design, office design, public utilities, and master planning.With each project the firm explores new ways to integrate an organizing idea with the programmatic and functional essence of a building. Rather than imposing a style upon different sites and climates, the unique character of a program and a site becomes the starting point for an architectural idea. While anchoring each work in its specific site and circumstance, Ariu+Vallino Architects endeavors to obtain a deeper beginning in the experience of time, space, light and materials. The phenomena of the space of a room, the sunlight entering through a window, and the color and reflection of materials on a wall and floor all have integral relationships. The materials of architecture communicate through resonance and dissonance, just as instruments in musical composition, producing thought and sense-provoking qualities in the experience of a place. Extending this approach with ecological innovation, Ariu+Vallino Architects is recognized for the ability to shape space and light with great contextual sensitivity and to catalyze the unique qualities of each project to create a concept-driven design at multiple scales, from minimal dwellings, to university works, to new hybrid models of urbanism.