Z1 House was our first commission: small in scale, immense in trust. Two twin houses that sought to rethink their social spaces in order to reclaim a light, holiday-hearted way of living. They did not require grand gestures, only to be prepared so they could continue welcoming the short films of their upcoming occupants.

As both houses were destined for rental, the identity of those who would inhabit them remained hidden in the future; therefore, we chose to inhabit them with invented characters, to speculate about their everyday and domestic lives... READ MORE

In the first house, Mia Dolan and Sebastian Wilder stepped out of the screen to dance in the newly configured living room —reshaped to make them protagonists— letting City of Stars echo softly through the space. Friedrich’s wanderer descended from his misty mountain to sit for a coffee in the dining room, contemplating the same horizon now placed above the new credenza. And The Son of Man, by Magritte, traded his apple for a newspaper, reading augustly on the terrace while listening to the birds emerging from the new blue that washed over the house.

The second home was inhabited by a single visitor: Andrea. Through her illustrations, she never needed to enter through the door. She opened the house axonometrically and let lines and colours spill outwards, filling every corner with life, until she inhabited it from within her own imagination... READ MORE

Thus, each character travelled from their distant scene to live a different story, just as anyone arriving at a summer house might do: with curiosity, with calm, and wishing to stay a little longer. Cocoa House was born from that minimal gesture —to host borrowed lives— and in that subtlety it found its identity. It did not seek to impose itself; only to offer a canvas where togetherness could be reinvented, again and again.