It is not the form that defines a project, but the experience it manages to generate. For RIOS, architecture is never an isolated object, but a living system in which landscape, interior, infrastructure, and public space intertwine. This is what emerges from the conversation with Simone Lapenta, Design Director + Director of Visualization at the RIOS studio, who explains how every choice of space, material, and light contributes to transforming places into spaces capable of eliciting emotion, wonder, and connection.
This episode is the English audio description of the article published in the Italian magazine Materialicasa Mag-Book 1/2026. You can read the magazine here https://materialicasa.it/riviste/materialicasa-mag-book-12026