Restriction allows scientific research to be more pertinent, it limits the way of action to focus on a specific parameter.
Architecture’s physical nature brings however already a substantial sum of constraints.
The decision to restrain oneself more strongly therefore becomes a decisive action. Justifying this irrational choice define the project. Building with and for the constraint.

Naples Ceramics Center is animated by the will to fully bend a precise constraint: building with one single material. Terracotta concentrates all of the building intentions to embody the programs’ interdependency and carry a permanent transfer of knowledge.

Creating, analysing, teaching, learning ceramics peacefully collide in a declension of terracotta. Mono-materiality is undertaken to achieve a disconcerting association of the building and its content.
The message is the medium. An ode to ceramics.