Domestic Altitudes
Aug 28, 2025
TERMINO collaborated with Mauro Cecchetti, an architect and designer behind the project /untitled™ on Domestic Altitudes, a spatial study where form and movement shape the rituals of daily life. The project explores how architecture and modular systems can exist not as separate elements, but as parts of a single, continuous environment.
"Domestic Altitudes is an exploration of what it means to live within boundaries — physical, psychological, and architectural. The house is a closed system, surrounded by high walls that exclude the outside world not out of fear, but as a deliberate act of focus. Inside, life unfolds across gentle thresholds: rooms of shifting heights create a spatial hierarchy that isn’t about power, but about rhythm. The body ascends and descends through ramps, not steps — a slower, more deliberate choreography that resists urgency."
It is within this curated rhythm that TERMINO modules are placed as their adaptable geometry responds very naturally to the gradual flow between these differing thresholds.
"At the highest point sits the kitchen — the site of transformation — followed by the living space and the bedroom, each nested into the ground with increasing softness. This vertical sequence isn’t symbolic, it’s behavioral: a domestic gradient that mirrors energy, light, hunger, rest. Movement becomes ceremony."
The surrounding spaces are grounded in material contrasts, and the kitchen’s 6-Series Recycled Aluminium and 304L Stainless Steel complement the textured concrete, light, and water. Within Mauro’s design, TERMINO functions as both a practical work area and a structural anchor, capable of balancing utility with the quiet, deliberate pace of the home.
"Water defines the external voids — not as decoration, but as a primordial surface, echoing sky and dissolving scale. It holds the architecture in tension, between earth and atmosphere. In contrast to the rough concrete walls that enclose it, suggesting vulnerability within protection, softness within structure."
"Domestic Altitudes imagines a condition of radical interiority. A world turned inward, not to isolate, but to create an alternative mode of attention. It borrows equally from ancient enclosures and distant futures, where architecture becomes less a backdrop and more a system for living, one that absorbs ritual, desire, silence, and resistance into its very form."
Through this collaboration, TERMINO systems are embedded in Mauro’s vision playing an essential role in his choreography. It works with the architecture’s pace, reinforcing the project’s balance between utility and ceremony, and between structure and softness.
TERMINO collaborated with Mauro Cecchetti, an architect and designer behind the project /untitled™ on Domestic Altitudes, a spatial study where form and movement shape the rituals of daily life. The project explores how architecture and modular systems can exist not as separate elements, but as parts of a single, continuous environment.
"Domestic Altitudes is an exploration of what it means to live within boundaries — physical, psychological, and architectural. The house is a closed system, surrounded by high walls that exclude the outside world not out of fear, but as a deliberate act of focus. Inside, life unfolds across gentle thresholds: rooms of shifting heights create a spatial hierarchy that isn’t about power, but about rhythm. The body ascends and descends through ramps, not steps — a slower, more deliberate choreography that resists urgency."
It is within this curated rhythm that TERMINO modules are placed as their adaptable geometry responds very naturally to the gradual flow between these differing thresholds.
"At the highest point sits the kitchen — the site of transformation — followed by the living space and the bedroom, each nested into the ground with increasing softness. This vertical sequence isn’t symbolic, it’s behavioral: a domestic gradient that mirrors energy, light, hunger, rest. Movement becomes ceremony."
The surrounding spaces are grounded in material contrasts, and the kitchen’s 6-Series Recycled Aluminium and 304L Stainless Steel complement the textured concrete, light, and water. Within Mauro’s design, TERMINO functions as both a practical work area and a structural anchor, capable of balancing utility with the quiet, deliberate pace of the home.
"Water defines the external voids — not as decoration, but as a primordial surface, echoing sky and dissolving scale. It holds the architecture in tension, between earth and atmosphere. In contrast to the rough concrete walls that enclose it, suggesting vulnerability within protection, softness within structure."
"Domestic Altitudes imagines a condition of radical interiority. A world turned inward, not to isolate, but to create an alternative mode of attention. It borrows equally from ancient enclosures and distant futures, where architecture becomes less a backdrop and more a system for living, one that absorbs ritual, desire, silence, and resistance into its very form."
Through this collaboration, TERMINO systems are embedded in Mauro’s vision playing an essential role in his choreography. It works with the architecture’s pace, reinforcing the project’s balance between utility and ceremony, and between structure and softness.
TERMINO collaborated with Mauro Cecchetti, an architect and designer behind the project /untitled™ on Domestic Altitudes, a spatial study where form and movement shape the rituals of daily life. The project explores how architecture and modular systems can exist not as separate elements, but as parts of a single, continuous environment.
"Domestic Altitudes is an exploration of what it means to live within boundaries — physical, psychological, and architectural. The house is a closed system, surrounded by high walls that exclude the outside world not out of fear, but as a deliberate act of focus. Inside, life unfolds across gentle thresholds: rooms of shifting heights create a spatial hierarchy that isn’t about power, but about rhythm. The body ascends and descends through ramps, not steps — a slower, more deliberate choreography that resists urgency."
It is within this curated rhythm that TERMINO modules are placed as their adaptable geometry responds very naturally to the gradual flow between these differing thresholds.
"At the highest point sits the kitchen — the site of transformation — followed by the living space and the bedroom, each nested into the ground with increasing softness. This vertical sequence isn’t symbolic, it’s behavioral: a domestic gradient that mirrors energy, light, hunger, rest. Movement becomes ceremony."
The surrounding spaces are grounded in material contrasts, and the kitchen’s 6-Series Recycled Aluminium and 304L Stainless Steel complement the textured concrete, light, and water. Within Mauro’s design, TERMINO functions as both a practical work area and a structural anchor, capable of balancing utility with the quiet, deliberate pace of the home.
"Water defines the external voids — not as decoration, but as a primordial surface, echoing sky and dissolving scale. It holds the architecture in tension, between earth and atmosphere. In contrast to the rough concrete walls that enclose it, suggesting vulnerability within protection, softness within structure."
"Domestic Altitudes imagines a condition of radical interiority. A world turned inward, not to isolate, but to create an alternative mode of attention. It borrows equally from ancient enclosures and distant futures, where architecture becomes less a backdrop and more a system for living, one that absorbs ritual, desire, silence, and resistance into its very form."
Through this collaboration, TERMINO systems are embedded in Mauro’s vision playing an essential role in his choreography. It works with the architecture’s pace, reinforcing the project’s balance between utility and ceremony, and between structure and softness.
© 2025 TERMINO GMBH
© 2025 TERMINO GMBH
© 2025 TERMINO GMBH