Seeking the Almost: Designing Shade

Co‐founding partner of Bricolo Falsarella Associati, Filippo Bricolo describes himself as a designer of penumbra, and spends much of his studio time choreographing the practice's designs and buildings. He believes the fast pace of contemporary living, communication and technology, with its techno‐positivist agenda, has made consideration of the penumbra almost extinct. Here he describes some of the architectural shadowy set‐pieces of his office and others.