Is an architectural office, founded by Valentina Merz and Lara Monacelli Bani.
Remoto refers to something that is somewhere else, coming out from another time, somehow detached from nowness and from space, from a central matter. Something we might not grab but that remains as a tense thought that directs our making. The noun refers to something forgotten, vague, almost undoable, but in itself, in re moto, a movement starts again and a project or a research, with ethereous and ancient roots, stick out and becomes something else.
In 2022 we received the Prize Miglior giovane progettista 2022 for Dandalò pavilion in L’Aquila.
In 2024 we have been selected by the European architecture platform LINA for emerging talents.
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Lara Monacelli Bani
(Bergamo, 16.11.1990)
studied in Mendrisio Academy of Architecture and in Paris Marne la Vallee, école de la ville et de territoires. She worked at CN10 Architetti, New Landscapes, at Architeckturburo Peter Zumthor & Partner, at AS architecture studio in Shanghai and at Pezo Von Ellrichsausen in Chile. She collaborated with Domus Magazine, Ila Beka & Louise Lemoine, Ark Magazine. From 2019 to 2025 she has been teaching assistant for Carla Juaçaba’s studio, at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio in Switzerland. Today she’s Professor at SPD and RUFA in Milan and PHD candidate at Politecnico di Torino. Since 2026 she’s a member of the design and construction collective Wunder.
(Bergamo, 16.11.1990)
studied in Mendrisio Academy of Architecture and in Paris Marne la Vallee, école de la ville et de territoires. She worked at CN10 Architetti, New Landscapes, at Architeckturburo Peter Zumthor & Partner, at AS architecture studio in Shanghai and at Pezo Von Ellrichsausen in Chile. She collaborated with Domus Magazine, Ila Beka & Louise Lemoine, Ark Magazine. From 2019 to 2025 she has been teaching assistant for Carla Juaçaba’s studio, at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio in Switzerland. Today she’s Professor at SPD and RUFA in Milan and PHD candidate at Politecnico di Torino. Since 2026 she’s a member of the design and construction collective Wunder.
Valentina Merz
(Trento, 26.06.1990)
studied in Mendrisio Academy of Architecture, in Escuela Politecnica de Madrid and in Pontificia Universidad Católica de Quito in Ecuador.
She collaborated with Elemental Chile, Alejandro Aravena in Santiago de Chile, with Taller de arquitectura Frida Escobedo in Mexico city, with Architettura e Paesaggio in Milan and Franzoso Marinelli.
From 2017 to 2024, she worked as teaching assistant for Martino Pedrozzi and Carla Juaçaba’s studio, at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio in Switzerland.
(Trento, 26.06.1990)
studied in Mendrisio Academy of Architecture, in Escuela Politecnica de Madrid and in Pontificia Universidad Católica de Quito in Ecuador.
She collaborated with Elemental Chile, Alejandro Aravena in Santiago de Chile, with Taller de arquitectura Frida Escobedo in Mexico city, with Architettura e Paesaggio in Milan and Franzoso Marinelli.
From 2017 to 2024, she worked as teaching assistant for Martino Pedrozzi and Carla Juaçaba’s studio, at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio in Switzerland.