.:: Nio @ Maxxi Museum :: Marzo 2005

Non a tutti piace conversare in rete, e poi con alcune persone vale la pena di scomodare la buona e vecchia chiacchera. Non so se a Maurice Nio piace o no utilizzare programmi di messaggeria istantanea, ma certamente incontrarlo di persona ha avuto il suo effetto più che attraverso le prime email di avvicinamente davanti ad un monitor. L’incontro è avvenuto nel Marzo del 2005, durante la presentazione di un libro edito da EdilSpampa e scritto da Emanuela Guerrucci. Allora non ero ancora cosciente della mia molteplice essenza dei vari alias che mi son creato man mano nella mia vita digitale. Allora ero molto più semplicemente Pilia Emmanuele…

.:: Pilia Emmanuele:
You opened your new office on the first day of the millennium was it just an occasion or was it on purpose?

.:: Maurice Nio:
It was both, I decided to quit my job, so I decided : let’s do it on the same day . I like this symbolic steps, opening a new office is important. I like working in a big office whit a lot of people I actually dislike this idea of having “your” office but it had to do that way.

.:: Pilia Emmanuele:
Before that you established with other people the “NOX” are you in a relationship whit them? Are you all working together?

.:: Maurice Nio:
Today not anymore, we had our differences regarding architecture, I like to do other things than my partners did, we moved on in other directions.

.:: Pilia Emmanuele:
We know you don’t just do architecture you also do graphic videos, we wanted to know if you work on each subject separately or combining all together?

.:: Maurice Nio:
It depends on the project, they are connected one to the other mentally not fiscally.

.:: Pilia Emmanuele:
We know you give names to all your projects like a work of art , are you looking at your projects in that way ?

.:: Maurice Nio:
I think the project does not exist if it has no name. When the project have a name and an image you can direct it to where it should be, that’s way names are very important.

.:: Pilia Emmanuele:
You talk about the “technical space”, how did you develop this technical space?

.:: Maurice Nio:
I relate that all projects are situated in possible spaces, than I thought there is a connection there , and we came up with the idea.

.:: Pilia Emmanuele:
You have put your building in a site that is not really comfortable for residence, where there some difficulties?

.:: Maurice Nio:
For me it was not difficult… We put a sound barrier.

.:: Pilia Emmanuele:
You work a lot whit polyester, what are the problems with this kind of material?

.:: Maurice Nio:

The biggest problem is that it is not used to architecture , it is more adjust to industrial design . It takes a lot of time to get it done, the calculation was made by specialist .

.:: Pilia Emmanuele:
Last question, what are you think about digital technologies?

.:: Maurice Nio:
I think there should be no restrictions with the way we design, we should design with what we like, everything is ok as long as the process is followed.