Spignon is a lighthouse located on a small island in the Venice lagoon, close to the “Bocca di Porto”, the opening that separates the Lido island from Pellestrina island. The lighthouse is owned by the State and since it has been abandoned and partially collapsed, the italian state property Agency, called Demanio, has decided to grant it to a private through a call called “Valore Paese Fari”.
A suburban context, without specificities. Anonymous.
Two young parents and their children. Ambitious.
The project for a new single-family house in Fagnano Olona, Italy, starts from a careful analysis of the context in which the construction will take place as well as the response to the specific needs of the client, a young family with two children.
A visual and physical continuum between indoors and outdoors, generating a perception that compounds an already complete wellness experience achieved by harnessing the spirit of place. (25 different pools in Italy’s largest public spa).
According to archaeological records, the springs in Meran have been in use for some 5.000 years. If those records are true, then the antecedents in the modern baths in this historical little town on the southern side of the Alps (which enjoys 300 days of sunshine every year) were already attracting users 1.000 years before the ancient Egyptians discovered the use of therapeutic baths were a staggering 3.000 years old when the Romans built their famous installation in Bath, in England. When the ancients took the plunge in the Meran springs, the view they could enjoy of the town’s magnificent location, set like the jewel in a crown of mountains, was unfettered by any surrounding manmade structure. And when today’s visitors to the town’s new state-of-the-art thermal baths take their plunge, Matteo Thun’s transparent design establishes a continuum between indoors and out, affording them a similar experience: the ultimate in the fitness is visual as well as physical.
The project for the new “Gaia del Greco” boutique in Senigallia responds to the need to move the existing point of sale, located in a shopping center, into a streetfront space in the historical center of this city in the Marches.
The decision on the part of Giorgia Politi, owner of the store and the factory of the same name that produces footwear and accessories in leather, was based on the desire to offer clients a more convenient and appealing space in which to display the brand’s entirely handmade creations. As Giorgia Politi explains: “Finely crafted Italian leather footwear and accessories are synonymous with style and tradition, all over the world. Our country also makes very beautiful products for the market of so-called affordable luxury, offered at more reasonable prices than those of the famous brands: “Gaia del Greco” fits precisely into this market niche.”
Designing a smart space, both elegant and intuitive was the intent in So & So Studio’s recently completed home for a blind woman in Thiene, Italy. When their client was ready for what she called “home” for fifty-five years to change, the designers elected to implement a natural process of adjustment and way-finding for the vision impaired woman to navigate her new space.
To be on an island and then inside a garden, allows a state of being where one’s mind can drift to a peaceful place of reflection. The garden in San Giorgio has a fan structure of walks, starting from Palladio’s Cloister towards the Lagoon. The Morning Chapel is along one of these long paths, and sits right before this walking line meets the water.
Located in the easteren part of Sicily, within a lemon grove overlooking the Ionian sea on one side, and Etna volcano on the other one, House RP stands in a marvellous location named Reitana. This place is known for the dominance of signs that underline its originary rural vocation: the lavastone walls, the rural buildings scattered in the landscape, the terraces modeling the country profile. All elements that draw a unique mediterranean paysage. The design provides a family house integrated with a farm; the design itself takes shape form the variation of the theme of Masseria. The italian “Masseria” is a vernacular mediterranean architecture characterized by the centric planimetric layout settled all around a courtyard named “corte”. According with the brief we have designed a cluster system of buildings generated by the intersections of stuning views and their relations with the landscape. The outcome of this process is an amazing, yet natural, courtyard, core of the family’s life where the building acts as scenography for every day activities.
The design of a family apartment for 3 people provides for a large living space including sitting and dining room. The kitchen, although located in a different space delimited by partitions, is directly connected to the living space by a big opening in the back wall of the kitchen itself. We take advantage of the pillar located in the living room to realize a division of the space, creating a hallway towards bedrooms. The cladding between the living area and the bedrooms is made of wood (structure made of wood squares and covered by birch panels). The cladding creates a hallway towards the two bedrooms (one en-suite) and the bathroom. A spiral staircase, just visible from the entrance, leads to the upper floor where there is a studio.
A project out of ordinary, borned by an idea of the chef Flavio Ghigo, to re-discover the piedmontese cooking excellence and re-interpreted fast food formula. Creativity and tradition blend themselves to give life to gourmet sandwiches.
Interior SS is a restyling aimed at simplifying, uniformizing and visualizing the ground floor of an existing house, last restored in the late 1990s, which had layers of very diverse overlapping additions . The project provides a free, fluid and luminous space on the ground floor in which the architectural elements, added and eliminated, adapt to the new open space.
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