MARTINA ZAPPETTINI - VALERIO TUNESI ZATOO DESIGNSTUDIO

ZATOO is an acronym of the initials of the founders of Designstudio, born in 2012 by Martina Zappettini and Valerio Tunesi, architects in Genoa, whose association is founded since 1992 for the architectural projects at the urban scale for research and international ideas competitions.

VALERIO TUNESI was born in Milan. He graduated at the Faculty of Architecture in Genoa. From 1990 to 1992 he lived and worked in Milan at the Architect Maurice Cerasi Studio. Since 1993 he has been living and working in Genoa. Since 1996, he is dedicating himself to the design for cultural events and for permanent and temporary exhibitions in historical, industrial and monumental environments. Since 1998 he is associate architect in Genoa, developing relevant activities in design and management of public and private spaces. In 2006 he is the holder of H2DO Architecture Studio.

MARTINA ZAPPETTINI was born in Genoa. She graduated at the Faculty of Architecture in Genoa. She is involved in research in architectural urban design in the university. In 1990 she worked in Genoa with " RENZO PIANO BUILDING WORKSHOP". From 1990 to 1995 she lived and worked in Milan, also active in the field of jewellery with achievements of sculpture - goldsmith.  Since 1995 she is been working in Genoa. In 2006 she opens Architecture Studio VZ , then MZRV and she also is involved in the field of graphic design, working out some catalogues of the artist Gianfranco Zappettini. She provides professional design, collaborating with municipal entities for the design of public spaces and for the coordination of cultural events.

Zatoo Designstudio poses as the origin of the expressed choices the essence of formal research obtained from a structured, precise, natural and complex project, which, away from the product of a formal gesture, has, as its aims, the clarity, the simplicity, and ultimately, the beauty that results from.

The unpredictability and versatility are the added characters from the Designstudio that express the synthesis of the current path followed so far: the design reflects the point of contact between being architects and the perceptive - creative informal moment, between discipline and play.

Zatoo has exhibited in:

 London in 2012 within the event ' Artour - O ' of Ellequadro at ' Ventique ' at Chelsea, in Milan in 2013  within the event ' YED ' Brera - Fuorisalone, in Monte Carlo (Principality of Monaco ) within the event 'Artour - O ' of Ellequadro at  CREM space, Foreign Resident Center, in Milan in 2014  Din Promote Design - Fuorisalone, in Milan in 2015 february  Desigcircus event , in Milan in 2015  Din Promote Design - Fuorisalone