The project features a three-apartment urban villa and manages its steep, hilly terrain through retaining walls.
These walls are central to the project, as they define both the internal and external spaces. An entire spatial system of volumes and voids stems from such a perspective. The internal environment is thus extended externally while maintaining definition.
The well-preserved gardens of the 17th century Villa Favorita, lining the shores of Lake Lugano at the foot of Monte Bré, are of great historical significance. The 13 romanticist buildings situated in the gardens were erected between 1687 and 1932. Their historicizing style is characteristic of Ticino architecture and, in fact, generally of the villas on the lake shores of northern Italy. Originally, the Villa Favorita was a freestanding, single ensemble of buildings between Lugano and Castagnola. Today it is surrounded by modernist blocks of housing from the second half of the 20th century. This modern architecture, is also a typical Ticino style, that emerged in response to the appeal of the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland as a second home and a financial center.
Partner in Charge: Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Christine Binswanger
Project Team: Martin Fröhlich (Associate, Project Director), Dieter, Mangold (Associate) bis 2011, Giulio Rigoni ab 2012, Christian Voss,Anna Jach, Alessandro Farina, Fernando Alonso, Hans Focketyn, Alexander Sadao, Franz, Martin Fröhlich, Yuko Himeno, Karina Hüssner, Kentaro Ishida, (Associate), Ondrej Janku, Mateo Mori Meana, Adriana Müller, Jochen, Seelos, Basil Spiess
Construction Management: Encotech SAGL, Lugano, Switzerland
Electrical Engineering: Pro Enggineering AG, Basel, Switzerland
Tunnels are “wounds” inflicted on geology to facilitate human movements. Their history is ancient, glorious and gory, but today techniques have been refined to the point of making the excavation similar to endoscopic surgery.
Article source: ABCGarchitettura and Lopes Brenna architetti
URBAN STRATEGY
The proposal for the new kindergarten and multipurpose hall provides to rearrange the lot in question via a solution that has its strength in simplicity, bridging the gap to the free sides of the area: the volume of the school is supported throughout via Nola, while the cube-shaped multipurpose hall marks the public entrance into via Ferri. In this way the volumes effectively reply both to its urban intensity, as public buildings in connection with the city, and to its function of prodrome respect to the internal vacuum. The volume of the school follows the type of its urban surroundings: set back from the road edge for the access and oriented along north-south axis to support the development of the future green line that will go from here till the lake of Lugano. The multipurpose hall chairs the empty neighborhood public gardens by adding to its collective function the one of gate of the park.
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