Article source: NAT Office – christian gasparini architect
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The exhibit pavilion for GB Gnudi Bruno works and researches on flexible and light temporary structures. It tries to represent products and technologies, involved to create extremely advanced and innovative packaging systems, that outline Bologna district worldwide known as the “packaging valley”. The module, with its infinite mash-up as structure, and the cardboard, with its layers and sides as material, are the generative, spatial, architectural and aesthetic elements of the project.
Situated in the museum and private home Casa degli Atellani, which hosts “La Vigna di Leonardo,” and just few steps away from Da Vinci’s “Last Supper,” Atellani Apartments offers 6, self-catering, elegantly furnished and fully-serviced vacation apartments. Restored in the 1920’s by architect, Piero Portaluppi, Casa degli Atellani transports visitors into the Milanese Renaissance, with architectural elements that date to as early as the 1400’s.
Entirely refurbished by Portaluppi's grandson, Piero Castellini Baldissera, and great grandson, Filippo Taidelli, the apartments preserve their original beauty and reflect the elegance of the building itself, while also underlining the strong family ties that have persisted for generations in the property.
The concept of Elegance is an integral part of this restructuring project. Redistribution of spaces and introduction of new systems are in perfect harmony with the aesthetic choices of the Architect.
A tailor-made house for a young Milanese couple, immersed in a green oasis on the outskirts of Milan.
The result perfectly reflects the stylistic idea of the designer, recreating a dialogue between past and present thanks to the use of soft color, in harmony with the iconic objects of the Masters of Design, together with others of recovery and new “tailor made” realizations.
After winning the architectural design competition by Kryalos, GBPA ARCHITECTS was commissioned to renovate an office building, named “Palazzo di Fuoco” , designed in the 1960s by architects Giulio Minoletti and Giuseppe Chiodi, located in Piazzale Loreto in Milan. The ”Palazzo di Fuoco“ was an innovative project for the time, a real palette of new ideas and technological devices, in which light, color and transparency became the conducting themes. An original, architecture, which was exhibited at a point of urban significance. The project actualizes the space at ground floor with two main entrances and a covered internal double height square and reorganizes the existing floors with new vertical connections.
Two connecting apartments with two brilliant sisters as clients. The first one, facing the street, where high ceilings with decorations and original parquet flooring were matched with a bright-coloured treatment of walls and peculiar pieces of furniture. The restoration of the old doors, directly linking the three rooms – living area, kitchen area, bedroom / atelier – had a very evocative perspective as a result. In the second one, facing the inner courtyard, the living area and the bedroom area are pleasantly linked, however a scenographic sliding panel guarantees a good privacy level. The steel-made kitchen meets the client’s needs, as she is a professional cook. A little balcony with a centenary wisteria growing all up perfectly tops the apartment off.
With twice the surface area, the coffee shop has been completely renovated, giving it a fresh, welcoming and comfortable new atmosphere.
A bright colour palette distinguishes the new decor. The checked wallpaper recalls school exercise books, the stepped seating and the screens modulate the space over which the lightweight and graphic lamps glide. The bar is tiled with coloured joints.
Particular attention has been given to the research of the materials: marble chip for the tables, brass for the pendant lamps, the fabrics for the cushions made in Senegal by a women’s cooperative. On the ceiling wood fibre panels for soundproofing.
In a recently renewed “vecchia Milano” context, the project completely transforms the interior layout of the apartment re-organizing the spaces and making them wide and open, keeping the structural parts and the staircase in its original position.
The owners – he is a programmer, she works in the publishing industry – have a special taste that reflects in their home.
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.
The Caffè Fernanda is part of a larger project to redesign the Pinacoteca di Brera and its collection. It is named after Fernanda Wittgens, the gallery’s visionary director, who was responsible for its reopening in 1950, after the terrible bombings of ’43.
Located in the former main entrance, the café is conceived as part and parcel of the museum tour. More precisely, it echoes the new curation of the museum’s 38 rooms by director James Bradburne, carried out over the past 3 years. Hence, the project’s chromatic and material coherence with the gallery’s new layout, and its reinterpretation of the space’s 1950s architecture.
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