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.
Why build a skyscraper? All our work answers this question, rather than the question: how to build it? The starting considerations are that humans have occupied all spaces of the planet, starting from small groups in single African areas we have colonized the entire globe, reducing the living space for all living beings, animals and […]
The design idea is to take advantage of the best orientation in terms of the solar path and at the same time, as specified in the competition program, to obtain a good view of the Montserrat panorama. In fact, to better exploit the slope of the land, avoiding the creation of too many and excessive […]
