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Dario Latrofa architecture alias DAIMON DESIGN https://www.daimon.design/ is a Grasse, Cote d’Azur, France, based firm operating within the fields of architecture, restoration, urbanism, research and development, which has been involved in a large number of projects throughout Italy, France, North America and Asia next to international architecture groups. DAIMON DESIGN strongly supports a point of view that architecture works best as a historical continuum of past and present, an unbroken line stretching from the remarkable past to the multi-ethnic, digital and technological present, in order to deal with today’s challenges, by combining design with its surrounding system; all part of a theatre stage of functions such as living, leisure, working, parking and shopping on a human scale. The project takes into account the “genius loci” mindful of bring out the qualities and potential of the site, through the analysis of context, its historical relations and the social, physical and semantic features which have characterised it. A complex whole capable of generating and supporting environmental quality demands and able to meet the needs of the users and, at times, educate them about a better quality of life. Site, context, building traditions, materials, climate or views are all building blocks of creating this type of architecture, an approach rooted in the value of materials and in the sense of what is real.