Sumit Singhal Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.
A Room Over the Sea in Molo Nord, Italy by Studio Zero85 (designed using Vectorworks)
October 29th, 2011 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Studio Zero85
Renovation of the “trabocco” above a port canal in Pescara The trabocco is an old “fishing machine” typical of the Adriatic coast. These construction consist of a platform set on pilots above the sea. Horizontally is fixed by long poles or antennas, carring a large fishing net stem out from the platform.
Design team: Mario Michetti, Giovanna Pizzella, Mirko Giardino
Project area: area of trabocco 24 mq, area of platform 112 mq
Project Year: 2005_2009
Photographs: Sergio Camplone
Structural enginee: Paolo Cerasoli
Furniture: euVivo, pescara
Software used: Vectorworks
Image Courtesy Sergio Camplone
Along time, however, these light architectural features, lost their primary sense and purpose for which they were originally designed and gradually turned into real rooms above the sea. The project on renovating a “trabocco” recall historical tradition of the structure of the old “trabocchi”, but with a new image and new use.
Image Courtesy Sergio Camplone
The project follows the principle of extreme simplicity, a uninterrupted lines follows the contours of the structure. In its interior final finishes, through design of a kitchen area and a small dining room or living room, while the lower section features a small bathroom and a larder.
The material used is larch wood, that corresponds to the ones used by fishermen.
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