Nimes plays home to house in a small lake. "Research, often, is a path orientated by incoherent choices, and yet the willingness to be permeated by the unexpected often reveals new keys to the comprehension of reality, which, being by its very nature constructed from a geography and from a relatively infinite time, is unstable, insecure and imponderable,"says Italian architect Antonino Cardillo.

"Life is not a coherent event: should architecture, then, be coherent? Our present is just one of the possible outcomes of reality and its progressive fulfilment in history is perhaps casual. Every day of every life passed could have been different. In the light of this, therefore, what meaning does the coherence of a language have? This question mark stimulated the invention of 'Max’s house in a small lake, which, as it tells its story, seems to contradict the preceding 'House of Convexities'.