The project concerns the construction of a house on the Argentario promontory in Tuscany. The house overlooks the northern side of the promontory overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea, in a vacant lot among other villas with gardens. The design idea is that of a house that opens up completely to the surrounding landscape, with a magnificent […]
The Inner city project idea is based on the achievement of some objectives: 1. concentrate activities and population by reducing dispersion with an advantage in services and in the creation of more highly efficient collective transport networks; 2. reduce land consumption; 3. creation of new green areas and renaturalization in favor of flora and fauna; […]
Design choices: The inclusion in the environment and in the context was the principle that guided us in the design of the Wine Hotel. Taking into account the requests and constraints of the competition, volumes were chosen that adapted to the slope and were on the same scale as the surrounding buildings. The reference is […]
Design choices: The project concerns the construction of a cultural center near Marrakech, in Morocco, and the guidelines were the reference to traditional architecture especially in reference to the inclusion of the environmental context, in particular in dealing with the certainly not favorable climatic conditions. The YAZ symbol was chosen as a basic diagram for […]
Design choices: 1.Choose areas large enough to allow settlements of a certain density and preferably close to public transport, especially the tram network which is the largest in the world. 2.Reduce land use by increasing settlement density with tall, multi-purpose buildings. 3.Reduce the size of the individual housing units by increasing the common spaces. 4.Bioclimatic […]
The project was inspired by two elements that characterize the Nile, one plant and another animal: the lotus and the crocodile. A crocodile, covered with lotus flowers, extends from one side of the river. The idea is to create a piece of the city that crosses the Nile uniting the two sides, creating a place […]
The house in question is located in an urban lot occupied by a building from the late 1960s to be demolished and replaced with a new one. The lot has a size of 12.75 m x 16.60 and is wedged between other properties with related dwellings. It is a residential area characterized by villas and […]
The site of the house is in Tuscany in a hilly area near Florence surrounded by an olive grove and a vineyard. The slope slopes towards the south overlooking the surrounding landscape. The house also combines housing needs with those related to a collection of works of art mostly sculptures. The fulcrum of the entire […]
Our idea of ”living” addresses in particular the high consumption of land, linked to the development of single-family homes and the lack of adequate services for housing dispersion. Guiding ideas are flexibility, customization, low land consumption and urban densification.
