Federico babina archiline kitchen

federico babina simplifies iconic architectural styles into their most elemental form
all images courtesy of federico babina

‘complicating is easy, simplifying is difficult,‘ milanese designer bruno munari once said. ‘simplicity is the hardest thing to achieve.

to simplify you have to remove things, and to take them off you must know which are the superfluous things.’

with a focus of finding the most elementary parts of an architectural scheme and the aesthetic backbone of a building, federico babina has realized 18 abstract compositions for the series ‘ARCHILINE’. without losing recognizability, babina finds an architectural ‘soul’ by reducing the work of ando, koolhaas and aalto into their purest representative form. 

the project intends to display the volume