Kemeri birdwatching tower
With Lorenzo Micucci | May 2018 | Competition for Kemeri National Park, Latvia
Biblioteca Lorenteggio
With: Andres Cardozo | 2018 | Competition
Community center
With: Alessandro Baschera and Rebecca Vassallo | May 2014 | Competition Sketched people in illustrations by Nicola Reich (The “Omini” project) The “Isola” neighborhood community center is planned to be built inside the new “Trees library” park, which opening is planned in 2017 within the new “Porta Nuova” masterplan. Our project stresses on flexibility, sustainability, reduced construction costs and on …
Torino Local Health Unit
With: Progettisti Associati Tecnarc | Jan-Feb 2012 | Competitive tender We were asked to work exclusively on façades and on some minor landscape arrangement. Internal spaces were not our task, in fact, they were designed quite irregularly; we therefore had to position windows randomly, sticking to a geometric grid and always using the same window size and type. We tilted …
Housing Contest
With: SBG Architetti | Apr – Jun 2011 | Competition This competition was launched in Lombardy to build a design directory for high-performance, low-cost residential buildings. Both projects – the “residential tower” and the “slab” – meet several techincal requirements, i.e. sustainability, construction costs (1600 euros/sq m), floor area (5000 sq m) and dwelling types mixture. This residential slab features …
Europan 2011 – Peja rendez-vous
With: Diaurmuid Kelly and Timoteo D’Alessandro | Jun 2011 | Competition We were asked to design a “new education, sport and tourism area” of 12 ha near Peja/Pec, an important commercial and agricultural centre for Kosovo. The programme demanded Faculties of Economics and Agronomy, tourism and hotel facilities, students’ and generic housing, parking lots, offices etc. Our project developed a …
Veyrier housing and nursery
With: Estudio Farini Bresnick | Jan-Apr 2009 | Competition Estudio Farini Bresnick took part in an architecture competition for a complex with 20-30 flats, a nursery, commercial surfaces, a private garden and some parking in the small village of Veyrier, near Geneva. The housing layout is clear and very compact, and meets swiss “Minergie” energetic standards. The nursery is located …
Firenze social housing
With: G. Barazzetta*, S. Pierini* and other students | Jul 2009 | Workshop The result of a ten-days workshop organized by Firenze, Milano and Madrid universities, tackling the concept of “social housing” on the area of Borgo San Frediano, in Firenze. Our group designed a a kind of linear urban module, conceived as a response to both the specific needs …
Porto Housing
With: L. Díaz Mauriño and M. Alberola* | oct-dec 2008 | Academic Lab On the south bank of the river Douro, in front of the historical district of Porto, there’s a steep and panoramic area, full of high trees. That is where the housing project was to be settled. The very thin (5 metres) and winding buildings, perpendicular to the …
Church in Piacenza
With: A. Pinneri and R. Neri* | sep 2006 – jun 2007 | Academic Lab This Catholic church consists in a sequence of spaces (the auditorium, the open atrium, the baptistery, a chapel, the nave), laying on a connection axis. Every space is conceived as a single volume, separated from the others by a void, which brings light to the …