In the Venetian lagoon, an artificial island has been transformed into a luxury resort and park. The island, built in 1860 is a state-protected landscape and has about twenty early-twentieth-century buildings, including a hospital and service buildings. The project’s complexity was managed through a shift in scale from the macro (masterplan) to the micro (details) by Matteo Thun + Partners.
M7 Contemporary Apartments is located near Fortezza da Basso, far from mass tourism but just a short distance from the city centre. The space – of over 1000 sqm – comprises 11 apartments realized to combine comfort and design.
Romeo N168 is a men’s clothing store located in Adelfia, a small town near Bari. The store offers a wide selection of brands, from classic to casual-street, with a remarkable attitude for research. The interior design offers a cozy and unusual space in a typical stone-wall house of the town. The black floor carpet is contaminated by samples of other carpets getting a multicolor and irregular pattern. The exhibition solutions change from area to area to create a dynamic and flexible space. Natural poplar wood, iron and laced glass are the materials used in the project, combined with old recovery elements to create original ideas in furniture too. Black, Klein blue and fluorescent orange are the colors chosen to define the visual identity of the brand in the store.
The house T a detached house located in Merano, consisting of a ground floor and a basement with garage. There were designed two buildings on different levels connectet by internal stairs, to better adapt the house to the sloping terrain.
In the vagueness of suburbia, where each place is similar to any other, where architecture is always changing and still always the same, where the limits, the entrances and the margins are usually those prescribed by regulations and allotment plans, and where regulations impose to build in the centre of the available allotment, this house aims to find its roots in the context, starting from its position, in order to break with settlement neutrality.
Plaxil 8 is an industrial building housing a fully automated MDF (Medium Density Fiberboard) manufacturing line. The line consists of a fiber sorting and mat formation section, a continuous hot press section and an unloading and stacking section.
This plant replaces the previous Plaxil 4 and Plaxil 5 press lines, retaining however their existing defibrators and warehouses.
The building covers an area of about 8500 square metres within the Osoppo production site of the Fantoni group. It is situated among other buildings north of the Plaxil 5 “Cathedral” building, originally designed by Gino Valle in 1985.
The building is 300 m long and 28 m wide. Its west side is over 50 m high, while the rest of the structure has an average height of 14.50 m. It is the largest press in Europe and the second largest in the World for the production of MDF boards, which are used for the manufacture of furniture, doors, interior panelling and soundabsorbing materials.
Casa Mia was born from the union of two separate apartments of a family with a child and waiting for the second, therefore the study of spaces and connections has been done paying serious attention to the child’s dimension. The two levels were connected by a resin and steel staircase that from the separation hallway between the living area and the sleeping area leads to the second level, where the master bedroom was placed with a reserved bathroom and two walk-in closets. A gap was opened in the wall between the staircase and the living room in order to allow the visibility between the two spaces, becoming a place of discovery but also of control. The staircase was thought up with the first two steps detached and movable, in order to give the opportunity to the parents to monitor their children’s access to the stairs. Two whiteboard walls, place of creative drawing, were positioned in the filter area between the kitchen and the living room and on an entire wall in the children’s bedroom.
The Corte Del Forte project came about after an invitation to Rintala Eggertsson Architects from curators Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara to participate in the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale. We were asked to do a special project at Forte Maghera, a closed down fortress in the Mestre part of Venice. As a gesture towards the local population the curators decided to take the FREESPACE theme of the biennale out of the ordinary exhibition venues and build a pavilion for social activities in the mainland township of Mestre, thus establishing a better contact between the biennale visitors and the general public. The choice of the site by the curatorial team was obvious; together with the adjacent San Giuliano park, Forte Maghera serves as the main recreational area for the local population in Venice.
Along the very commercial Via Torino, this bar for streetfood-lovers, stands out for the variety of proposals ranging from ice cream, fruit, coffee shop to single-serve pastry, from varied pizzas to tasty sandwiches that can be created at will. All these delicacies are displayed in the saw-effect natural wood benches and iron blades. To the black wall glazed or covered with black ceramic tiles by Mutina, graphic panels accompany the choice of products. On the floor, a Lombard block effect stoneware. To illuminate the space two complete recessed tracks with Corner adjustable spotlights by Ares Italia, and suspensions similar to iron lampshades by Karmann Italia. To enliven the walls we wanted to play with Wall & Decò wallpaper showing two different graffiti on exposed concrete walls. A glass and iron window divides the kitchen from the room, where a long high wooden table is supported by birch logs. Outside a shelter supports the logo in illuminated box letters.
Our design for Kale’s new stand at Cersaie 17 pushes the company at the forefront of a new trend: a mutable and fluid ceramics market made of smaller numbers, higher quality and wider offer. It’s a simple, light design – almost a pop-up temporary showroom – along with a very iconic visual communication.
email
Facebook
Twitter
RSS Feed
