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We are Alessandra Faraone and Valeria Merola, two Neapolitan architects who met in Barcelona. First friends and then partners, we decided to merge our previous experiences into a joint project, founding the architecture and interior design studio ACABADOMATE in 2012.

Our main objective is to improve the quality of people's living spaces by fostering dialogue between the existing and the new, the natural and the artificial, with respect, attention, and collaboration with the end user. The starting point for each project, regardless of its scale, is the search for the "genetic code" of the built, natural, and human environment.

Our method relies on an analysis of the context and its values, both instrumental and cultural, to create new spaces from existing places, without distorting them.

We focus on reuse rather than demolition and reconstruction. Our interventions seek to create spaces that are both functional and emotional, without imposing themselves as icons, but rather presenting themselves as subtle, almost silent operations in dialogue with the identity of the place and in listening to the expectations its users project onto it.

Valeria Merola (Rome, 1979)

Graduated in 2004 from the Faculty of Architecture of the Università Federico II in Naples. She completed her postgraduate degree in "Architectural Rehabilitation and Restoration. From Structural Construction Analysis to the Intervention Project in the Context of the CTE" from the UPC in Barcelona in 2013.

He has collaborated with the _Scape studios in Rome and Paris; and B720 and Rba arquitectes in Barcelona.

In 2010 he began his activity independently between Catalonia and Italy and in 2012 he founded ACABADO MATE with Alessandra Faraone.

Alessandra Faraone (Naples, 1977)

Graduated in 2000 from the Faculty of Architecture of the Università Federico II in Naples. She completed her postgraduate degree in "Architectural Rehabilitation and Restoration. From Structural Construction Analysis to the Intervention Project in the Context of the CTE" from the UPC in Barcelona in 2013.

From 2001 to 2004 he collaborated with MBM Arquitectes.

In 2006 he joined forces with Federico Calabrese and Marc Tomás to form fondaRIUS architecture .

In 2011 he began an intense collaboration with Valeria Merola, with whom he partnered at the end of 2012 to found ACABADO MATE.

Collaborators:

Jorge Martín - structures

Azymut Landscape - landscape

Marcela Grassi - photographs

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