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Personal Details: Name: Alessandro Paladin Born on: June 4th 1986 in Padua Nationality: Italian Immigration Status : Permanent Resident of Australia, en-route for citizenship Current Adrress: 22A Bishopsgate Street, Lathlain, WA Mobile (AU): 0487278884 Email: alessandropaladin@gmail.com
Introduction
$OHVVDQGUR 3DODGLQ I consider myself an ambitious and focused professional. I believe in a design process that is flexible but consistent in achieving its goals, resulting from a continuous integration of different scales, means of representation and aspirations. A process in which the urban strategy informs the smallest detail and vice versa, in which the use of 3d Softwares, hand drawing and physical models continuously overlap through the development of ideas and their representation. A process in which physical constraints, sustainability strategies, socio-historical context and artistic and philosophical references play an equal role in the production of the architectural project.
I strive to improve myself, always pursue precision and consideration and take pride in my work, ensuring a smooth passage from concept to detailed and constructions stages, enhancing the quality of the final product. I am a strong team player, having covered both leading and following roles in my professional career. I firmly believe in the sharing of knowledge and skills in a continuous learning and teaching cycle. I know what my strengths and limits are and I am confident in exploiting them, as well as those of other team members, to deliver work on time and up to outstanding standards.
I understand architecture as the process of adding layers (both physical and ideal) to the built environment in which humans live. In the years I have developed a strong ability to quickly read and interpret preexisting urban, social and architectural fabrics and ideas and respond to them through design. I pride myself of having a flexible, curious and questioning mind which allows me to consider and evaluate diverse design approaches. My passions for reading, travelling and making allow me to be continuously exposed to different inputs which continuously enrich my conceptual vocabulary.
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&RFNEXUQ *DWHZD\ 6KRSSLQJ &HQWUH Cockburn Gateway Shopping Centre is a large suburban retail complex located in the Southern growth corridor of Perth metropolitan area. The centre was subject to a major expansion completed in 2014. The highlight of the development was an external dining precinct facing a planning dictated Main Street. Although commercially successful the Main Street is failing to create the urban environment that its name implies. This project looks at extensively renovating the existing building fabric in order to create a more intimate and experientially dense experience.
The proposed structures facing Main Street, within a loose framework dictated by the volume of the existing building, vary wildly in composition, materiality and alignment. In a more established and slow-evolving context this variation would have been produced by the layering of different styles and functions through time. In this case a certain dose of eclecticism is employed to create a street front that is more akin to an urban environment than a suburban one. Rather than employing an aesthetic cohesion between street frontages the cohesion is achieved by scale and rhythm. The proposed additions on the first level of the existing building fabric, rather than expanding and replicating its architectural vocabulary of monolithic volumes
and consistent finishes, seek to express themselves as individual buildings. Drawing on their function and location within the wider site, they establish everchanging relationships with the user, blurring the boundaries between private and public, internal and external, natural and artificial. I have developed the initial over arching concept for this design and have lead a team of designers in its implementation to its successful planning approval. Dealing with consultants I am now reviewing its documentation while working on the masterplan for the next stage of the project.
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%HOPRQW )RUXP 6KRSSLQJ &HQWUH Belmont Forum is a medium sized shopping centre in a suburban area South East of Perth. It occupies almost completely a block defined by the perpendicular roads typical of the planned grid in this part of the worlds. The site is surrounded by single level dwellings on three sides, while the fourth is defined by a local government hub containing the local council offices as well as several community facilities. The client brief entailed 15’000 m² expansion of the existing centre as well as an overall renovation that would bring its outlook to the 21st century. I was involved in this project from the masterplanning stage, progressing its design, overseeing its documentation and being in charge of the contract administration until completion in September 2018.
The existing shopping centre, as the vast majority of the buildings of its kind built all over the world in the past 60 years, is both impermeable and oblivious to its surroundings. In the pursuit of the creation of an artificial mimicry of a public space devoted to consumption, it sought to isolate itself from its immediate surroundings. As part of our (still commercially driven) design response, we focused our effort in creating urban connections with the significant destinations outside of the site, creating less controlled public spaces and blurring boundaries between inside and outside. In doing so particular care was given to the design of the fine grain and the use of texture in order to transform car-perceived environments into walk able ones.
The building interiors reflected the fragmentation of a building developed through different additions over time; each addition reflecting the different wave of post-modern fashion of its time. The interior design for this project sought to create a more homogeneous experience with the use of recognisable patterns of organic forms and natural materials that greatly improved the legibility of the space. A different approach was instead applied to the new fresh food precinct. In order to enrich the user experience of this newly enclosed market place we created a continuous dialectic between distant and near, public and intimate, opened and closed, finished and incomplete. This approach, far from disorienting users is encouraging social interaction.
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([SR 8%3$ 1 3DYLOOLRQ Following the opening of the Power Station of art Museum on the Huangpu riverside, Shanghai Expo Group was looking at the re-development of the Best Urban Practices part of 2010 Expo. The site featuring citiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; themed pavilions is undergoing an extensive project of re-use converting the existing exhibition buildings into high-end office spaces. While working for Shanghai based office 3Gatti I was involved in the invited competition entry for the construction of two new pavilions and a new facade for the existing Madrid Pavilion, designed by Foreign Office Architects.
The N 2-5 Pavilion is a two stories cafe and restaurant which formally completes the water garden at the centre of the site. Its curved outline mimics the landscape of the garden and enhances the fluid connection between the squares that define the visitorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; circulation in this pedestrian area. The roof of the building features water ponds that create peaceful privileged views over the chaos of Shanghai.
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([SR 8%3$ 1 3DYLOOLRQ The outline of the N 3-1 pavilion extends the system of parallel streets created by the pavilion to the North of the site that define the secondary access. It also creates a defined edge for water garden, making it the focal open space of the development. The water filled roof ideally and materially connects this restaurant building with its tween pavilion. Both pavilion are composed of 1200 mm thick concrete slabs separated by a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;forestâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; of bamboo poles of different colour and dimensions.
On the outer layer, this forest creates a division between interior and exterior that creates privacy without giving up transparency and natural light. Inside the restaurant the forest continues, creating bigger and smaller enclosures that remain visually connected. Void cylinders cut through the concrete slabs defining circular gardens within the buildings, creating spaces for peace and contemplation.
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([SR 8%3$ 0DGULG 3DYLOOLRQ Shanghai Expo Group decided to rebuild the facade of the Madrid pavilion due to its terrible conditions that made it impossible to operate. The concept behind Foreign Office Architects design was that the timber facade covering the terraces that surround the building on three sides, could be operated by its users with the utmost flexibility, enabling them to control ventilation and natural light according to their needs.
In an attempt to create an inspiring dynamic surface we decided to keep this concept and combine it with the eastasian peculiarity of using umbrellas as sun shades. The whole faced is composed of perforated aluminium octagonal sections, that open and close like umbrellas through a spring-loaded pulley system. When an â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;umbrellaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is closed, its folded volume sticks out of the facade transforming the building into a responsive living object projecting in the surrounding space.
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The white blocks conceal all the sales devices, from hangers to cashiers and fitting rooms. In contrast to the sharp white volumes the opposing surfaces (floor of ground level and ceiling of upper level) feature a continuous terrazzo surface devoid of sharp edges. I personally supervised the detailed design and the production of construction drawings for this project.
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Xinhua Road in the former French concession of Shanghai used to be one of the wealthiest roads of the city before World War 2. Foreign business men built here family villas in the style of their homelands. It is today one of the major heritage areas of the city, and as such it is enjoying a new period of wealth and its buildings are being extensively renovated to allocate high end housing and restaurants. In this context I was asked to design a new connection between the road and the back garden of a villa, serving offices, a french restaurant and a SPA. In addition to that the design had to reinvigorate the presence of a small glazed volume recently added to the historic fabric, suggesting it could be later occupied by a small cafe or bar.
The new street front is a built statement of my view on the role of re-use in contemporary architectural design. The new structure, declaring its diversity in shape and materiality, becomes a support for the old, making its existence in a changed world sustainable. The old structure in turn gives cultural value and raison dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;etre to the new, ideally bridging past and present in the collective memory of the city. The gate works as an identity creator combining opposing sensations. Its unique porous pattern forms an abstract carving once the panels are folded on one another, raising curiosity and estrangement. On the other hand its relationship to the proportions of the human body brings a sense of familiarity.
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This is the project for a sales centre for a new residential development in the western outskirts of Nanjing. The design had to produce a distinctive modern building that would be remembered by its visitors, while ensuring low budget and short construction time. Built with a temporary construction permit, the building was initially intended to be demolished within one year from its opening. After reviewing the planning application, the local government decided to take it over at the end of the land lease to allocate some of its offices.
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Renovation - Addition of new volumes to existing fabric Shanghai - 2012 (under construction)
7H[WLOH )DFWRU\ This project is part of an extensive renovation development on the site of a former fabric factory in the northern area of Shanghai. This part of the site included the administrative buildings of the derelict industrial complex that had to be converted into creative offices combined with small retail spaces on the street level. The proposed design uses the addition of new volumes with a contemporary language to create a new street front where old and new, opacity and transparency are integrated to create human scale spaces.
At the centre of the site sits a metal clad volume that ‘embraces’ one of the existing blocks, thus completing it and increasing its presence on the street. This new hybrid block becomes the focus of the development setting a more coherent relationship with the more defined blocks on its sides. In between these three solid elements two transparent volumes are inserted with the purpose of connecting them, as well as creating a direct visual link between the street and the common area in the backyard.
The new additions distinguish themselves from the existing blocks for their porosity. They create transition spaces between inside and outside with their terraces, as well as between different levels of the complex with a system of double height spaces that visually connect the ‘interior’ facades of the solid blocks.
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DAtrans - Urban Design - Commercial Space Feng Xian - 2012
-9)RR &RPPHUFLDO 3OD]D This is a conceptual design for a 110â&#x20AC;&#x2122;00 square metres mixed-use master plan in Fengxian (Xuzhou province) for the owner of a local food production company. The site is that of a former noodle factory which has been relocated. Most part of the development is occupied by dense residential buildings, while the southern end of the plot is a commercial area facing one of the main access roads to the old town of Feng Xian. Due to local regulations this part of the project, while extended in footprint, was limited in height.
The resulting design is a human scale commercial area composed of small buildings sitting around a sunken garden. In this way the front on the main street is totally permeable to the view and access of visitors, avoiding the raise of dead areas at the rear of the site. Public open-air circulation permeates every level of the complex, with the sunken garden, a pedestrian boulevard on the ground level and terraces on the first. The visibility of vertical connections enhances the ease of navigation and orientation.
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%0: 8UEDQ 6KRZURRP This project was a commission by BMW China for the design of car showroom in the central Hua Hai Road of Shanghai, one of the most famous and expensive shopping streets of the metropolis. The brief was challenging on many levels, being in many ways completely different to the usual suburban showroom paradigm. First of all, instead of a one storey regularshaped building, we were faced with a long and narrow space divided in three levels. On top of that the window front was very limited, forcing us to re-define the display of cars.
To cope with the division of the levels and the relatively low ceiling height of the space we decided to cut two ‘holes’ through the slabs connecting all the levels of the building. In order to make the space more regular, and the circulation more fluid and continuous, we ‘wrapped’ the whole interior with a white surface. The flow of the space was then enhanced by dividing the surface in three different bands, while the top and bottom parts are simple and austere, the middle strip is a precious translucent surface with retrofit lighting.
This surface reacts to the different uses of the space in front of it by gaining thickness for the display of objects and fixed seating, or by becoming a canvas for images of different sizes, from advertising pieces to landscapes acting as backgrounds for the cars on display.
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Masters Thesis Project - Civic Architecture - Historical Conext Padua\Sheffield - 2011
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One of the key elements of this project will be a central atrium/courtyard flexible performance space around which all the other functional units will be arranged according to their degree of public accessibility. All the spaces will be connected through an inner ring of circulation that can occasionally become integrative part of the audience space or even of the stage. This will be held on columns that will also regulate the perspective view of the users according to their direction of approach.
Another hey theme for this project is that of the composition of facades in order to mediate the transition between the public (?) space of consumerism and the collective one of representation. Here the threads of a definite and recognisable identity will interweave and relate to different scales of streets in different ways.
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,O 0LOLRQH This building is an attempt to redefine the typology of the shopping mall through a strategy based on three main points: bringing together dwelling and working place; making this building temporary (3-5 years) and then transportable to a another site following the shifts of the market; providing an outdoor public space where to organise fairs and markets. Following the tradition of shopping malls this building brings together different functions in order to create a whole experience: shops, a flexible auditorium for gigs and cinema, a restaurant. The workers who own the building travel around with it, establishing connections through the objects they exchange and produce.
This building is called ‘Il Milione’ after the title of the book Marco Polo wrote when he came back from his travels as a merchant from Venice to China. The building is substantially an attempt to redefine the typology of the shopping mall that combines spaces for entertainment with shopping and restaurants to produce a complete and self-contained experience of consumption. On the ground floor it consists of three shops (used goods, visual arts and typical products), one restaurant/café, an office space, a recording studio and a space to allocate movie projections and rock gigs. The first floor instead allocates dwellings for the workers, who also own the building. Every living-working unit is thought as independent.
In an attempt to connect goods with stories of the place where they are produced ‘Il Milione’ is also a temporary and transportable building. It is supposed to rent an empty site waiting for development for a 3 to 5 years time frame. It will then move to another place according to the conditions of the market. In these regards the attempt is to leave the existing site and buildings as undamaged and re-adaptable as possible. On top of that, in order to make of this building a place of genuine exchange, there is a flexible system designed to provide paving for market stools and fairs that will occur with an even more temporary nature.
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StudioMAS - Renovation - Hospitality Cormons, Italy - 2009
&DÂś 6DUYRJQDQ 5HVRUW DQG 63$ In the summer of 2010 a German entrepreneur, willing to buy a plot of land in the region of Collio, asked SutdioMas a preliminary project for a resort and spa on an derelict farm in the town of Cormons. The Collio region, in North-Eastern Italy and fairly close to the Slovenian border, is renown for its wine and ham. It is characterised by an hilly landscape extensively cultivated with wineyards. The client was particularly interested in linking within the future program the production of typical wines with a typology of spa developed in France and based around the so-called wine therapy, which involves the use of grapes and their extracts.
The site seats on the Southern slope of a hill dominating the village of Cormons, about 10 minutes walk from its centre. It is a long and narrow plot of land. Its Southern part is occupied by a derelict farm. The complex of buildings comprehends a three floors manor house, and some minor sheds. Most of the site, going up towards the top of the hill, is occupied by numerous lines of vines adapting to the natural slope. Our approach was to re-use the existing structures adding new openings and modifying the existing ones in a way that exploits the thickness of the stone masonry to create intermediate depths between inside and outside.
View of the Restaurant Volume A modern spa facility is attached to northern side of the manor house, disappearing into the landscape. Two buildings have been added in line with the existing fabric allocating bedrooms. The decoration of both interiors and exteriors uses a palette of colours based on the different tones of local wines.
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StudioMAS - Renovation - Interior Design Padua, Italy - 2008, under construction
0XVHXP RI +LVWRU\ RI 0HGLFLQH I took part in the detailed design of the Museum of History of Medicine in Padua, for which StudioMas, together with Berlin office of Heinz Tesar, won a public competition in 2005. The client was a committee composed by representative of local institutions (city council, county, university, hospital) and private funders (banks). The brief was to design a permanent exhibition, together with offices, a conference hall, a bookshop and temporary exhibition spaces within a 15th century monastery. The conservative refurbishment of the existing building was under the responsibility of another office, with the exception of the cloister, for which we designed a new landscape.
The cloister of S. Francis monastery is quite different from the archetypal one of this building typology: its shape in plan is irregular, and the building surrounds it only on three sides, while the fourth is defined by a blank wall. The proposed solution surrounds it with a colonnade, a filter between the inside and the outside of the building. The landscape is defined by a series of terraces that set a relationship with the volume of the main exhibition through their orientation. These terraces, connected through concrete paved pathways, also provide rows of seats looking down on the lower part of the cloister. The green space is treated as a small botanical garden, with the inclusion of medical herbs.
The design of the interiors used cabinets, panels and tables and their interaction with the existing structure as tools to create an exhibition without a set sequence of rooms, but in which the visitor is subtly led from one section to the other as if investigating the different parts of the human body. The core of the exhibition is the 2 storey â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;cellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, an enclosed transparent space representing the miracle of life and its mystery, a place that the study of medicine can only penetrate to a certain extent.
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Facade facin ng th the e main road StudioMAS - Competition entry - Architectural Design Albino, Italy - 2008
$OELQR 6FKRRO 'LVWULFW This is a competition entry for a new primary school for 500 pupils, and a nursery school for 90, intended to form, together with an existing middle school, a new complex for primary education in the city of Albino, on the at the base of the Alps North of Milan, in Italy. The brief required the buildings to be extendable, affordable and up to the highest standards of energy consumption. The site was situated on a slope facing the main road getting out of town towards the deeper part of the valley, with its longest side facing South East. The most complex part of the project was represented by the primary school, due to its sheer size and the necessity for workshops, canteen and gyms.
We decided to exploit the horizontal dimension of the site to its maximum in order to keep the building low and give to as many rooms as possible a direct access to the garden. Workshops and administrative offices were placed on the N-W side of the site, leaving the best exposition to the classrooms. The central part of the building is used for internal circulation, with a wide spine that crosses the whole building creating generous spaces for play and encounter. The section of building adapts itself to the slope, minimising digging during construction and creating a direct visual relation between all levels that simplifies the reading of circulation routes while creating stimulating spaces.
Each classroom is defined by two inhabitable walls that allocate greenhouses for passive thermal regulation towards the outside, and storage and seating spaces towards the inside. The central circulation is illuminated by roof lights with different orientation that associate direct and diffused light with warm and cold colours. Trough these design solutions the school building becomes a tool for the education to a responsible use of natural resources.
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$ELWDU(&2VWUXLUH The competition asked the design of 20 residential units, to distribute into two plots in a residential outskirt of the city of Foligno, Umbria, Italy. The flats had to be divided into 3 types with a surface of 70,78 and 95 m², respectively in the number of 5, 10 and 5. They had to fit the energetic requests of the Italian classification A class, as well as to grant access to disabled people. The apartments have been functionally distributed according to the main orientation of the building in order to reach the best solar exposition. Open-air balconies on the shaded side of each building grant independent access to any flat, avoiding the heating costs of the common parts.
On the inside the flat is divided into two bonds. Serving rooms such as bathrooms, kitchens and corridors take place on the northern one; while all the served spaces such as bedrooms and living rooms face directly to the south. A deep loggia stands as a filter between these rooms and the outside. It runs all over the southern facade and is supported by metal frames that define little greenhouses and storage spaces.
As every flat on the ground floor has a private garden, the loggia on the upper floors becomes deeper adding some covered balconies in order to give anyone a pleasant open-air living space. The volumes of the loggias repeat themselves into the garden and on the side of the stairs, becoming common space of meeting and rest.
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Builillding Bu g Axxo o Competition entry - Architectural Design Vicenza, Italy - 2008
6FXROD (GLOH 3DOODGLR This competition was called by an association of developers requested the design of a school for builders in the outskirts of Vicenza, the town of North Eastern Italy where Palladio designed most of its urban interventions. The brief included the new association offices, classrooms and different workshops, including some for heavy machinery. The site faces a heavy traffic suburban road to its North and an empty field to its south.
Responding to this condition a thick, opaque inhabitable wall separates the building from the main road, with two deep red â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;cutsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; signifying main and secondary entrance. Towards the south the building opens up with big glazed openings regulated by a composition of vertical shades. The main entrance crates a common atrium separating the private parts of the offices from the public spaces of the school. On the top floor conference and meeting rooms face a rooftop garden.
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Year 3 Design - Police station and homeless shelter Mestre, Italy - 2007
7KH FLW\ÂśV HGJH The main purpose of the building organism is to make all the different layers getting in touch, i.e..... to make all the people moving on the edges of this site being aware of each other, giving character and memory to this non-place. In order to do so I tried to bring closer all the elements representative of each perceptual layer using a tower, continuous surfaces and little volumes. Place shape and orientation of each element has been designed to set a continuity with the present landscape, extending the existing lines till their intersection, forcing every layer to have a look on others. Talking about the functional plan, the complex is composed by a police
station, placed south of the flyover, split into a dwelling tower and long low block office building. On the North side of the flyover I placed a day centre defined by little openly oriented volumes, in order to recall a little village and not to give a sense of imprisonment. Both buildings have a controlled public space and share an overlook on a little square below the flyover, which they relate with in different ways: the police station does it openly, while the day centre has a more hermetical behaviour, generating a tension between this space and the inner courtyard. Analysing the complex from the first perceptual layer, the southern block appears closed and inaccessible with its windowsills 2.20 metres high.
Once one passes under the flyover, the volumes of the day centre slowly reveal themselves, pushing the glaze towards the square due to their orientation and decrease of height. By the second layer point of view, the bond wall of the day centre extends the funnel shaped surface of the existing houses, leading to the passage under the flyover. Then the parking lot excavation of the police station, together with the tall tower and its windowless wall, marks a break evidencing the â&#x20AC;&#x153;gateâ&#x20AC;? role played by the flyover passage. This project can be finally seen as an attempt to translate the latent tensions of this place into a building.
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Year 2 Design Workshop- Civic Architecture - Historical Context Venice, Italy - 2006
6DQWD 0DUJKHULWD $UW 6FKRRO The project stands in Campo S. Margherita, in the Dorsoduro district in Venice. It is one of the biggest squares of the city, a place frequented both by day and night. It stands on the route that goes from Piazzale Roma to the Zattere and Accademia, and is less visited by tourist than other places, according to the lack of monumental buildings in its surroundings. The food market takes place here during the day, and the benches in the shade of the big trees are places of rest for elderly people and of play for children. In the evening this square becomes the hot spot of Venice nightlife with a lot of bars and restaurants. Concerts and other events take occasionally place here, not only during the carnival.
The classes of the course were focused on the genius loci of the city of Venice: its labyrinth alleys, the Byzantine influences characteristic of the decoration of its monumental buildings, and the constant relationship with the water and its reflexes brought into the both vertical and horizontal symmetry of the facades. Our project stands on one of the main entrances to the square, the one coming from Piazzale Roma ( the only car access to the city), widening the alley towards the square, in order to create a resting place and to mediate the threshold to the open space.
Our project consists into a long block aligned with the alley entering the square, facing the canal on one side, and the square on the other. The functional block containing the classrooms and little library stands on the back, with a direct access both by the water and the courtyard by a spiral staircase. The main block consists into a huge room with a little bar, characterised by a big coloured glass wall projecting towards the square. The vaulted roof recalls the shape of a wave menacing to sweep away the human world, giving shape to the ambiguous relationship of Venice with the sea.
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Site Si te e pla l n Year 2 Design - Luxury Residential - Mediterranean Vernacular Formentera, Spain - 2006
:DWHU /LPH 6WRQH The plot has a long and narrow shape, oriented perpendicular to the seashore. It is characterized by a slight downward slope starting from the island centre and going smoothly to the white sand beach. The arid and rocky ground is covered with bushes of aromatic plants and cluster pines, a typical vegetation of the Mediterranean scrub. On the highest spot of the plot stands a squat medieval watchtower, which couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be included in the building as used nowadays as a transmitting station by the Spanish Navy.
The choice of the building location on the plot has been motivated by several factors: the will to be as near as possible to the beach, the presence of a downward slope strong enough to allow direct views of the sea by placing the volumes of the building at different levels with the less excavation, the intention to use the tower as a sight focus keeping its formal and functional independence. Therefore the building stands along a line devoid of vegetation going straight from the tower to the sea, in the portion of the plot nearest to the beach allowed by the building code, which sets the minimum distance to 50 meters.
The building can be accessed by a driveway that stops at the first volume, which includes a shaded parking lot, the heating room and the housekeeper dwelling. From there starts a path that goes straight to the beach cutting the main building in two sides.
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