Pierattelli Architetture has created this charming residence for a family of Italian entrepreneurs. The location is out of this world and its unique view represents a convenient frame through which to enjoy the city without being suffocated by it.
The apartment is sited in via dei Bardi, in the heart of Florence, and occupies 130 square meters on one floor. It is based on an interior design project characterised by an approach to comfort that is able to return quality without displaying it. Attention to detail emerges from the furnishings: all handmade and bespoke by local craftsmen.
Magazzin is the operational headquarters of the Cooperativa Arcobaleno and the Orti Goriziani, located in the heart of Gorizia in a former stable.
The structure has been restored with an industrial character to make the building contemporary and suitable for the hosted functions.
The structural freedom in the plan has given the possibility to transform the existing building into a large open space designed to accommodate three operational functions:
• Coworking
• Exhibition space
• Vegetable sales area
The hierarchy of functions determined the character of the project and its physiognomy, turning needs into opportunities.
The apartment is a unit of a building of the late 50s in the center of Turin, a few steps from the Mole Antonelliana.
From 2011, the year of birth of blaarchitettura, at the end of the different projects that involve us, one of our recurring activities is to evaluate how we can make our process more efficient. Over the years we have optimized issues related to the project and its phases, issues related to the relational aspects with the workers, but not less important, we continue to ask ourself how to optimize the construction methods and related techniques. We think, in fact, that some traditional methods of construction must be questioned and must be object of reflection.
For example, the brick and plaster partitions system has developed and sedimented for its flexibility and plasticity, but not for its efficiency. It is consequent to a practice in which there is no clear definition of roles, mostly informal activities, in which most of the choices take place during construction, leaving the freedom to postpone decisions and remedy situations.
The Administration of Mesola has shown the need to intervene on the Estense Castle with a restoration project in order to fit out transformable spaces for exhibitions and events. The Administration has nominated the intervention at the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism and has obtained financing in the Inter-provincial Intervention Project No. 30 called Ducato Estense (implemented in the Interministerial program “Piano Stralcio _ Cultura e Turismo” Fund for Development and Cohesion _ FSC 2014-2020.).
Villa M is a family building of ca.150sqm situated in the hills of the Ligurian Riviera overlooking the Gulf of Ospedaletti. The L shaped building is composed on a single floor with a courtyard to the center. The volume responds to the surrounding landscape focusing on the main view and sunlight. The existing site was defined by a terraced environment which was maintained in the new project without touching the existing walls and avoiding excavation. The building is situated in a residential environment distinguished by a typology of mansions, nevertheless, the villa responds and preserves the natural scenery of the coastline and its facade is inspired by with the typical dry stone walls of the Ligurian terraces.
This intervention is part of our double project in a same building. They have the exact same starting plan. They are two twin residential units, respectively the 5th and 6th floor of the same building. Even the internal conditions were the same.
Operatively we faced this project in the opposite way. The approach to the two projects was rather antithetical. Despite having both a type similar client, a young couple, we decided to treat the distribution issue in different way.
While the open area of PORTLAND is invaded by a falling meteorite (concrete cube), MORRISSEY is sectioned by bi-dimensional planes, which define spaces slicing the available volume.
The Cake House is a project for the extension of a twofamiliy house .
1. Analysis and observations:
The existing house is located in a residential area of the town which was bui lt between 1950 and 1970 and is characterized by one or twofamily houses with a garden.
The client’s needs were to increase the living space of 20 per cent, withou t diminishing the garden area.
After a preliminary analysis it was decided to act on the southwest side of t he house that was facing the garden and it could then offer a new view on the tow n.
From the beginning it was clear that one of the main problems would have been t he adjustment to the existing volume of the house because operating on that side of the house would have mean to completely upset the existing balance of it .
Peck, the symbol of Italian gastronomical delights, opens a new venue, which explores a new concept in food&beverage and merges in a single place all its distinctive features: deli shop, restaurant, wine bar and cocktail bar.
Designed by the Milan-based studio Vudafieri-Saverino Partners, the new Peck is located in the CityLife Shopping District, the largest urban shopping district in Italy. Peck brings to the new vertical city – under the skyscrapers designed by internationally renowned architects – all the flavours, aromas and expertise that have made it the benchmark for highquality foods and a well-known brand all around the world.
The apartment is located in a southern suburb of Milan, the project connects a studio with a terrace on the first floor with a three-room apartment on the ground floor.
The project organizes the space by volumes rather than in plan. This approach will soon discover a need for a mezzanine and leads to a design of an iron footbridge. Together with the staircase it will become the axis of symmetry, rotation and sliding of the whole apartment. As a result, the plan and the section seem to be squeezed in the middle like a butterfly shaped pasta.
Casa Sabir is a refined early 1900’s apartment that opens out on to the historic market of the fascinating island of Ortigia, the ancient heart of Siracusa, Southern Sicily, where Greek settlers from Corinth arrived in 734 BC.
Made famous by the genius of Archimedes, the city still bears the architectural and cultural stratifications of the peoples who inhabited it and is a maze of streets where the yellow sandstone eaten by time and salt suddenly stops in intense glimpses of blue.
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