Nestled in Oltrarno, a district renowned for its vibrant artisan culture in Florence, ‘La Marionettistica’ proposes a puppet workshop and theatre beside the River Arno. The site, Piazza di Cestello, holds its significance due to its proximity to the 17th-century church, San Frediano in Cestello. Florence has a long history of puppetry, exemplified by works such as The Adventures of Pinocchio. These days, the ethereal whispers of the city's puppet culture persist, though dimmed.

Inspired by the controller and controlled relationship found in puppetry, especially marionettes, the project seeks to develop a puppetry-like design process that generates cause-and-effect outcomes. Creating a digitally programmed drawing machine, the ‘puppetograph,' facilitates reciprocal design at varying scales, transforming one profile into another and forging visible and invisible connections within the space. La Marionettistica exemplifies puppetry as a viable architectural tool. This approach empowers not only living bodies but also allows both architectural language and architecture itself to become controller and controlled.