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Off Club (Anima)

Rome


Project for the nightclub today renamed ‘Anima Restaurant and Club’ in Casal Bertone with golden rough plaster vault and black iconostasis with arches




Off Club


Representation



Off Club reunites the cinema of Kubrick and De Palma, Grand Theft Auto IV, Miami Art Deco District, the Escher’s perspectives, Byzantine iconostases, and Japanese folding screens. This work continues the investigation of Primordial Images presenting an ambience that reunites the sensorial plane of tactility with the intuitive, which projects onto reality the psyche of the observer.⁠[1] The space between the elements recalls the pattern of a mandala and the last works of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe —⁠ ⁠the theme of the double and the one divided. The two rooms devoted to hospitality form a raumplan six metres in height. Extending right round, a quadrangular enclosure sixteen metres wide unifies the duplex space framing the base of the Vault of the Golden Shadows.⁠[2] The latter, covering the space within the enclosure, is excavated at the centre by a black apsidal shape. Beneath this centre, a false scale palazzo encloses the contents and functions of the two bars. Constructed of two twin altars 7.22 metres long in black granite, both the bars —⁠ ⁠mixology on the upper floor and sushi on the lower —⁠ ⁠counterpoint the opposing sides of the palazzo towards the two rooms. With its double grey façade the palazzo carries out the apotropaic function of giving faces to the space. An iconostasis made from two twin black monoliths with elongated copper arches masks the face of the palazzo towards the road. Through the fissure created by the separation of the monoliths a view of figures is revealed. Arches, rhombuses, triangles and discs seem to evoke archaic rituals. Here, ancient and modern syntaxes find conciliation. Thus, this outline of physical and psychic scapes represents the idea of the architecture as transfiguration of the human.




Notes
  1. ^ Carl Gustav Jung, Psychologische Typen , Rascher & Cie. Verlag, Zurich, 1921; It. ed. Cesare Luigi Musatti and Luigi Aurigemma, Tipi Psicologici, Bollati Boringhieri, Turin, 2011, pp. 624.
  2. ^ Carl Gustav Jung, Psychologie und Alchemie, Rascher & Cie. Verlag, Zurich, 1944; It. ed. Roberto Bazlene with Lisa Baruffi, Psicologia e Alchimia, Bollati Boringhieri, Turin, 2006, pp. 566.


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Off Club logotype

The logotype of the Off Club, Rome, 2018.





Data
  • Time: Feb.–Oct. 2017 (design), Oct. 2017–June 2018 (construction), June 2018 (photography), Sept. 2018 (text), Dec. 2018–Feb. 2022 (Off Club activity), Sept. 2023– (Anima Restaurant and Club activity)
  • Place: Off Club (Anima after), Via di Casal Bertone, 64, Rome, Italy
  • Area: 450 m² (three storeys)
  • Typology: Nightclub




Credits
  • Architecture, construction management: Antonino Cardillo
  • Clients: Massimo Di Persio, Matteo Di Persio, Francesco Curcio, Remo Curcio
  • Building contractor: Roberto Federici
  • Masonry: Vincenzo Amato, Adrian Ciacan, Marius Ioan Frunzà, Emanuele Venturini
  • Logistics: Cristiano Massariello, Emanuele Zappone
  • Painting: Andras Marton Mihaly
  • Electrical system: Fabio Gabriele
  • Plumbing system: Stefan Minciuna
  • Granites: Ghirardi Stone Contractor
  • Windows: Claudio Carboni
  • Parquet: Gabriel Grama
  • Air system: Alessio Lanzani
  • Paintings: Sikkens (via Vito Caruso)
  • Curtains: Pasquale Lo Guercio
  • Mirrors: Nazzareno Garofani
  • Bar counter, tables, furniture design: Antonino Cardillo
  • Sofa design: Piero Lissoni, Living (via Mario Dejana)
  • Chair: Busnelli (via Luca Anzellotti)
  • Door handles: GIL (via Handles)
  • Balcony lamp: Armand Darot
  • Stair lamp: 1970s Murano glass from Palermo
  • Luminator: (via Giuseppe Picconi)
  • Photography, text: Antonino Cardillo
  • Translation: Charles Searson
  • Thanks to Klaus Mondrian, Alexandra Savtchenko‑Belskaia




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