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https://i0.wp.com/www.architect-us.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/1_featured.jpg?fit=1080%2C1110&ssl=110801110Giulia Pierotti, one of our highly-skilled talents in the Architect-US Job+J1 Visa Program, submitted Living on the Edge as part of her Master Thesis (110/110) at the Politecnico di Milano. She received the "Michele Silvers Award" as one of the best Master Thesis on International architectural projects. Now she is working in New York City with Space4Architecture. Pierotti states that “Living on the Edge” is the almost unconscious choice to live on the edge of “something”. This probably was no more than a consequence of the first English settlements that took place along the sea coasts and on the rivers’ banks. Surely this was “dictated” initially by the inhospitality of the outback of the Australian territory and then became a distinctive feature of how to live it; a living faced outwards. The veranda is therefore the architectural element that realizes the unaware choice above and that allows to realize that need that is essentially the Australian spirit of living. The need, that is, to project itself outwards. The veranda is therefore a room without walls; the “room of the sun”; the room that allows you to live an open space in front of the house.