The latest challenge undertaken by Puccio Collodoro Architects was to create a small Mexican cuisine take-away venue to sit alongside the elegant world-renowned fashion boutiques and the most glamorous venues of the Palermo night scene.
Guacamholy Mexi.co comprises a new Mexican cuisine takeaway located in the heart of the Sicilian capital of Palermo, where elegant windows of the most renowned fashion boutiques sit alongside the most glamorous venues of Palermo nightlife.
House VCS is a project looking at the new construction of a one-family house in Modica in the province of Ragusa, on a site whose the high scenic value is due to the constant relation with the rock, on which is built not only the house but the whole town. In fact, Modica is characterized by rugged horizon and pale rocky walls, extent that the ancient, in order to name it, have been inspired by the word “Murìka”, which indicates the bare and poorly cultivable rock.
The house, realized thanks to the technical collaboration with the engineering office SIC, is in the countryside of Modica, in an area characterized by a soft slope which suddenly turns into a steep rocky escarpment. A place where the view literally seems to “leap into the void” of the valley to stop in the opposite side.
Located in the Municipality of Avola, a few kilometers from Noto, this splendid residence was born according to the landscape that guarantees a breathtaking view of the Sicilian coast that goes from Syracuse to Portopalo.
As requested by the clients, the design intention was to guarantee always and everywhere, both inside and outside, the view of the sea and the landscape in general.
Article source: Nunzio Gabriele Sciveres Giuseppe Gurrieri
Lotto 12 is part of the Garden cooperative in Marina di Ragusa characterized by accommodation that develops on two levels and which are surrounded by large gardens.The internal space of the ground floor is divided by the staircase and the insertion of some “hyper-furnishings”, which contain various functions and technological systems. These volumes are custom-designed in blue Valchromat and in white lacquered MDF: the kitchen block divides the dining room from the cooking area and contains two sliding panels that can be extracted if necessary by isolating the two rooms; a second wardrobe divides the dining room from the living area by incorporating a pillar of the house; a large library in the living room, shielded by large sliding walls, allows for ever-changing configurations.The internal flooring is in smoothed concrete protected by a transparent polyurethane resin and the staircase is made of concrete and is covered with an iron sheet.
The Project tackles the delicate topic of integrating a contemporary artifact in the Old Town of Favara (Sicily), in a consolidated frame of row houses.
Knowing the urban tissue, the project management reveals a conscious contemporaneity, based on the building know-how and the ability to obtain high-quality housing outcomes, reflecting the evolving requirements and performances which merge into a complex dimension of the “physics of the building”. Giglia’s Project follows these parameters of attention, rationality and expressivity. The result is simply amazing: a white strong gem proudly set in the surrounding urban fabric – showing a low architectural value – linked with the city through small holes and scenic overlooks on the Old Town.
Zahara was the headquarters of an ancient Sicilian fief of citrus, olive and almond trees on the border between the Monti Iblei and the Piana di Catania. Of a larger general project that includes the remodeling and re-functionalization of all the buildings and the closest external spaces, the sequence of interventions carried out has been concentrated on the main building.
This house stands isolated in Favara, not far from Agrigento, looking out onto the shiny Mediterranean in the distance and with the famous Valley of the Temples archeological park not far off.
Nature and the relationship to the landscape play a fundamental role in this work. The architects have combined a rigorous, rational approach to the project with the expressive freedom typical of organic architecture, enhancing the relationship between inside and outside through a careful dialogue with the pre-existing environmental context.
Named after its charmingly christened Moon Alley, the Vicolo Luna neighbourhood is an urban quarter on the edge of Favara’s town.
This project’s target is to toggle on urban and social regeneration dynamics, to the benefit of such complex network of old and new buildings, of public, private and venue spaces: squares, historical streets, alleyways, plazas, courtyards and gardens.
Since the end of the 18th century, when the Greek colonization of Sicily forced the Phoenicians to retreat to Motya, Soluntum, and Palermo, the ancient Phoenician city of Motya lies on the San Pantaleo Island, in the lagoon of Marsala in Sicily.
In 397 B.C., Dionysus of Syracuse knocked Motya down after a long siege and the survivors found a shelter on the mainland, establishing the Punic city of Lilibeo. This settlement, today known as the city of Marsala, quickly gained in importance and overshadowed the ancient city of Motya, which the Carthaginians will conquer back soon after. The archeological excavations in Motya brought back an astonishing male sculpture, considered an original Greek artwork of the 5th century B.C., and the urban design of the settlement, of the city walls, and of numerous buildings. Above all, the most significant archeological discovery is the unveiling of a unique Phoenix-Punic warship, sunk at a battle during the First Punic War between the Romans and the Carthaginians in 241 B.C.
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