We have developed our idea through the construction of an open-space living room in which a "food area" and a "knowledge area" face each other; the house's inhabitants can re-configure the space through the opening of shells that enclose the functional areas.
The areas (the nests), when they are closed and the free space is maximized, become kinds of mysterious objects which also function as large-scale luminous objects that enlight the environment through their colored/reflected light.

When opened, the nests reveal their core, a space that displays its own function: the food area is the area where the family cooks, eats and joins together through food; the knowledge area is both a bookcase and a digital equipped space with an embedded multimedia PC where both adults and children can explore traditional and digital culture.

It was important to preview how this space would be seen by a growing child, and therefore the functional areas are designed to be source of imagination for a young child as well as useful places for when he/she will be older; the walls let scatter the light through all the house, this is a place thought of as a social space where for example the opening of the kitchen unit is a kind of ceremony that says "…this is food time…"

The project is entitled "the Nest house" not only for an assonance with "Next House", which really wasn't intentional, but mainly because the life of a working couple with one child is often limited during the week to a short time in the morning and some hours in the evening, so the house itself is

at last the nest where a modern family may regather, it seemed interesting to us to image a nest made by other smaller functional nests that embody the two vital-points that in our opinion bind people out of their places of work: eating and communicating to each other (perhaps at the same time, of course).