MetroOffice Architetti was founded in Florence in 2006 by Fabio Barluzzi and Barbara Ponticelli after their previous collaboration, which had begun nine years before, in the office z-ax architetti. Their main concern is architectural design on different scales, from analysis of a single residential unit to the development of city planning and all the various models deriving from that. Since the beginning of their activity, their research has been oriented towards the experimenting with new kinds of language, even inside already consolidated historical contexts. Their work is trying to analyze all the interactions intervening, from time to time, betweeen the housing function and the social and urban ones. They intend to offer an original typologic solution, analyzing from time to time, shape, modes of expression, different languages, phenomena such as urban density and reduction, always trying to capture the driving impulse, as a real source of energy for the development of the project.