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caarpa is a project combining architecture and landscape.

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Redefining the Relationship Between Architecture and the Garden
How a single change in level became an architectural gesture—connecting movement, landscape, and light.

A closer look at Scala San Filippo by caarpa, where a subtle shift in the terrain inspires a sculptural steel staircase and a delicate greenhouse, creating a seamless dialogue between the existing garden, architecture, and the surrounding landscape.

What do you think—can a staircase become more than just a means of movement?

Architecture, Design & Landscape: caarpa
Structural Engineer: Eng. Davide Badaracco
Location: Genoa, Italy
Completed: 2024
Built Area: 40 m²
Garden Area: 400 m²
Typology: Private Residence / Garden Intervention
Photography: Anna Positano | Studio Campo by @caarpa_

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🌿 Cuando una condición del terreno se convierte en una oportunidad proyectual.

En este proyecto en Génova, Italia, el estudio @caarpa_ trabajó sobre una condición existente del jardín para generar nuevas formas de recorrer y experimentar el paisaje.

La intervención apuesta por una arquitectura mínima y precisa, donde la relación entre estructura, vegetación y preexistencias resulta clave para construir una experiencia diferente del espacio exterior.

Un ejemplo de cómo una operación puntual puede transformar por completo la percepción de un jardín. by @caarpa_

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Cala F.
Set within a seaside building originally designed as a hotel by Luigi Vietti and later transformed into a series of serviced apartments, this residence (formed by merging two units) seeks to reconnect with Vietti’s original design ethos, reinterpreting it without mimicry or nostalgia. Photos: @annapositano taken in Costa Smeralda-Sardegna by @caarpa_

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A sequence of masonry vaults defines the spatial experience while concealing the building services. Supply and extract air grilles are integrated into the geometry of the vaults and the bespoke joinery. Phots by @annapositano taken in Costa Smeralda by @caarpa_

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Cala F.
Set within a seaside building originally designed as a hotel by Luigi Vietti and later transformed into a series of serviced apartments, this residence (formed by merging two units) seeks to reconnect with Vietti’s original design ethos, reinterpreting it without mimicry or nostalgia. #costasmeralda⚓️ #luigivietti Photos: @annapositano by @caarpa_

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Dove le superfici diventano paesaggio.

Per la Genova Design Week 2026, Abet Laminati partecipa a PuntaSanLorenzo, l’installazione urbana progettata da @caarpa_ che trasforma Piazza San Lorenzo in una scogliera contemporanea ispirata al paesaggio ligure.

Attraverso colori, texture e pattern provenienti dal catalogo Abet, il progetto reinterpreta la tradizione genovese dell’intarsio e riflette sul ruolo dello spazio pubblico come luogo di incontro, sosta e condivisione.

Genova Design Week @genovadesignweek
3-7 Giugno 2026
Progetto: @caarpa_

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Where surfaces become landscape.

For Genova Design Week 2026, Abet Laminati takes part in Punta San Lorenzo, the urban installation designed by caarpa that transforms Piazza San Lorenzo into a contemporary cliffscape inspired by the Ligurian coast.

Through colours, textures and patterns drawn from the Abet catalogue, the project reinterprets the Genoese tradition of inlay and reflects on the role of public space as a place for gathering, resting and sharing.

Genova Design Week @genovadesignweek
3-7 June 2026
Project: @caarpa_ taken in Piazza San Lorenzo by @caarpa_

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PuntaSanLorenzo trasforma Piazza San Lorenzo in un frammento di costa ligure: un luogo dove fermarsi, incontrarsi, stare insieme. Un invito a vivere lo spazio pubblico con la stessa libertà, spontaneità e condivisione che si trovano sugli scogli.

Realizzato con @abetlaminati , il progetto reinterpreta la tradizione dell'intarsio genovese in una nuova topografia urbana, dove design, paesaggio e relazioni umane si intrecciano.

Ad accompagnare l'installazione: la colonna sonora site-specific di @filoq , le illustrazioni marine di @margheritabozzano , il racconto di @ester__armanino sulla crescita con la scogliera come orizzonte e il reportage fotografico di @diego.arbore ,

✨ Un gesto di attivismo gentile che ci ricorda che lo spazio pubblico appartiene a chi lo vive.

PuntaSanLorenzo è un'installazione realizzata per la @genovadesignweek 2026 grazie al contributo e al supporto di @forumservice @dide_distretto_design_genova @abetlaminati @tuttolegno @foschini_pavimenti @cambielli_atelier @cosmo_costruzionimoderne @emugroupspa @i_giardini_di_diletta @taconline.it @helancosmesi @vermobilstyle

video di @andreabosioarchphoto

#PuntaSanLorenzo #Genova #PublicSpace #UrbanDesign #Architecture #Design #Liguria #CityMaking #TemporaryArchitecture #UrbanCulture #AbetLaminati #PiazzaSanLorenzo #DesignForPeople by @caarpa_

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Genova Design Week | @dide_distretto_design_genova
3–7 giugno 2026

PuntaSanLorenzo — un’installazione urbana firmata da @caarpa_ che trasforma Piazza San Lorenzo in una scogliera contemporanea attraverso le superfici decorative di Abet Laminati.

More soon.
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Genova Design Week
3–7 June 2026

PuntaSanLorenzo — an urban installation by caarpa transforming Piazza San Lorenzo into a contemporary cliffscape through Abet Laminati decorative surfaces.

More soon.

#abetlaminati #triennalemilano #vignelli #designexhibition #materialculture #architecturallanguage #italiandesign #genovadesignweek #caarpa by @caarpa_

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🟢 Scala San Filippo by @caarpa_ is An Espace Autre in Genoa 🟢

This is not a greenhouse. This is not a staircase. This isn’t even a garden. Scala San Filippo in Genoa, by caarpa, is a 40 sq. m. liminal, contemplative space in the heart of a private garden, where a pistachio-green sculptural staircase encounters rugged stone walls, glazed surfaces, reed screens, linen curtains, and chickens wandering among watering cans, gardening tools, and fragments of reclaimed marble.

Scala San Filippo eludes fixed definitions, simultaneously functioning as a staircase, greenhouse, garden, observatory, and domestic refuge—without fully becoming any of them. Treating the garden as a space of nature, memory, and heterotopia, caarpa embraces Foucault’s description of it as “the smallest parcel of the world and the totality of the world” (1986), carefully recalibrating a series of relationships: wilderness and construction, antiquity and contemporaneity, opacity and transparency, permanence and transformation.

In turn, Rosario Assunto described the garden as “neither pure nature nor pure artifice, but an aesthetic and ethical synthesis” (1988). Scala San Filippo embodies precisely this condition. Neither building nor landscape, neither object nor infrastructure, it operates as a device for transition, contemplation, and embodied movement. The greenhouse becomes less an enclosure than a threshold; the staircase, less an element of circulation than an invitation to wander. Ultimately, Scala San Filippo reminds us that architecture does not always require monumentality to reshape our perception of a place; sometimes, a single, carefully calibrated gesture is enough to redefine an entire world.

✍️ @melina.arvaniti.pollatou
📸 @annapositano | @studio_campo_photography

#stairs #architecture #design #italy #archisearch taken in Genoa by @caarpa_

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Trasparenza e continuità visiva affacciata sul Golfo Paradiso.

Villa a Recco: un’architettura che si sviluppa su più livelli adagiati nella cornice della Riviera Ligure.
Protagonisti dell’involucro i serramenti minimali scorrevoli, integrati a filo pavimento per scomparire nelle strutture verticali.

Progetto: @gosplanarchitects, @giordano.hadamik.architects, @caarpa_
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Credits @annapositano, @gaiacamb | @studio_campo_photography by @caarpa_

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🔆 The Summer Refuge 👉 Episode 12: La California by @caarpa_ is a Salmon-Pink Maritime Refuge Rooted in Sardinia’s Industrial Heritage 🔆

Rooted in #nature, #rural landscapes, vernacular architecture, and closely connected to “disconnection,” “slow living,” and Martin Heidegger’s “Dasein”, The Summer Refuge series curated by Archt. for @archisearch focuses on seasonal houses that shelter time, #memory and dreams.

In the twelfth episode, we follow caarpa reimagining Sardinia’s #industrial #heritage through the transformation of California—a 60-square-metre former high-temperature cooking room within a historic tonnara, the traditional tuna-processing complex—into a pink-salmon #domestic #refuge by the #sea.

Along Sardinia’s Costa Verde, former tuna-processing tonnare shaped a unique industrial-domestic architecture tied to seasonal fishing, collective labour, and coastal climate. These complexes included double-height halls, patios, warehouses, and sleeping quarters, with the ‘California’ cooking rooms designed for extreme heat dissipation during tuna boiling. Though the industry has disappeared, many structures remain as abandoned or altered fragments embedded in coastal villages.

The project La California by caarpa reactivates one such building, previously subdivided into holiday units, by restoring its original full-height spatial generosity. A central concrete pillar remains as a trace of later modifications. The #renovation introduces a raw birch kitchen concealing services, an Orosei marble bench that doubles as seating and circulation, and a mezzanine bedroom. The rear patio features exposed brass plumbing for outdoor washing, while interiors use terrazzo and handmade turquoise tiles. A #pink façade connects the building to Sardinia’s geological palette of trachyte color traditions.

Shaped by the island’s industrial memory, the cycles of labour, and the seasonal rhythms of the sea, La California becomes a #maritime refuge entrusted to the warmth of #wood, the gravity of #concrete and the quiet sensuality of pink.

✍️ @melina.arvaniti.pollatou
📸 @annapositano

#summer #house #home #reuse #island #architecture #sardinia #italy #archt #archisearch taken in Sardinia, Italy by @caarpa_

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Scala San Filippo
In the heart of a private garden in Genoa, a slight difference in elevation provides an opportunity to redefine the relationship between architecture and landscape.
The soft colour and sculptural shape of the powder-coated iron staircase serves not only as a connection between two levels of the garden, but also as a true architectural statement that redefines the perception of the place.
Designed to blend in with and complement the staircase, the greenhouse fits harmoniously into the existing masonry context, creating a dialogue between the antique and the contemporary. The glass surfaces maintain a constant visual connection with the surrounding vegetation, and the light, delicate metal structure emphasises the transparency and brightness of the spaces.
The project as a whole restores the balance between nature and the built environment: the staircase becomes an experiential path that guides the gaze and body upwards, while the greenhouse becomes a space for rest and contemplation — a green microcosm that extends the life of the garden indoors.

The hens’ accommodation was kindly provided by Tresgal Farm.

Photo: Anna Positano / Studio Campo @annapositano taken in Genova, Italia by @caarpa_

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