Founded in 2001 by Emiliano Roia and Andrea Quagliola, MORQ Architecture is an internationally award-winning design studio that works on projects ranging from small residential and retail Spaces to large scale landscape and urban planning.

The studio is dedicated to building, creating meaningful Spaces in simple but thoughtful buildings. In a dialogue with existing conditions, whether nature or constraints on built conditions, they use them as starting points for design rather than as obstacles to creativity.

One of their works, Villa O, is a unique residential building that sits on a flat site with a slight drop from the ocean, overlooking the sea ahead and connecting with the local landscape.

The facade of the building has a rough and unrestrained feel, and the materials give the project a more primitive and wild beauty. The material palette was chosen to respond to the context of the site and to blend in as if it had been there from the start, without seeming out of place.