Antonio Piga Architectural Portfolio
In architecture as in nature:
“Nothing is created, nothing is lost, everything changes.� Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier
Curriculum vitae
Master’s student in Architecture and Urban design
Personal infos Birth Nationality City Phone
Contacts
14-04-1994 Italian Cagliari +39 3488148321
E-mail Website Issuu Behance
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I come from a timeless island with a strong identity. I look forward to feeding my mind in the unstoppable evolution.
Experiences
About me
Workshop MIAW 2020 Metro M4 | La nuova dorsale
As a person interested in art as a way of expression, I have a constant interest in the research of beauty. I see myself as a tireless reader, keen on researching and appreaciating even the little things. My preferred way of travelling is to “lose” myself on the way and to keep going discovering hidden spots. By watching films, especially italian neorealism, I developed sensibility about scenography and movement with a particular attention to the represented social conditions. I practice several sports, such as football or tennis, and outdoor activities - cycling and trekking. My passion for cocktails and liquors led me to London, where working as a bartender taught the importance of a positive attitude in teamwork.
Milano | January 2020
Innovative learning space 2018 A city for everyone Alghero PAESAGGI CULTURALI
Third summer school | Cagliari 2014
Construction Emergency Unit tent Milano | May 2019
FAB LAB | Paesaggi parametrici Cagliari | September 2018
Competition Latvia | Great Kemeri bog visitor center www.beebreeders.com | December 2018
New Zealand | Wellington Oriental bay pavillion www.adedu.co.nz | November 2018
Latvia | Pape nature park gateway www.beebreeders.com | May 2018
Studies
Language
Master PoliMi, University of Milano
Mother tongue 2nd language 3rd language Learning
Architecture and urban design Sept. 2018/ On going
Italian English - IELTS certificate: 6.5 Portuguese - B1 Spanish, French
Bachelor Unica, University of Cagliari
Science of architecture - 110/110 Lode Sept. 2013/ Feb 2017
Erasmus plus experience ESAP, Escola Superior Artistica Porto Architecture Sept. 2015/ July 2016
Physical skills Drawing Painting Modelling Assembling
Sketches, Free hand, Tecnical Crayons, watercolors Use of tools with different materials on every scale Join complex structure of modular components
Software skills Office Power point Word Excel
Analysis Qgis Grasshopper + Elk
Modelling Autocad Rhinoceros Gr. + Meerkat GIS Revit
Adobe InDesign Illustrator Photoshop After Effect
Rendering Cinema 4D Corona
This portfolio is a selection of projects elaborated either in a team or individually during 6 years of university studies, competitions and internship, aiming to develop an understanding of architectural complexities based on the approach of site analysis and the importance of the characteristics of the place. The Bachelor’s studies in the technical university of Cagliari gave me the basis for a complete development of a project, from its design to construction solutions. The years spent working and traveling, mainly in Portugal and United Kingdom, led me to new experiences in urban lifestyle, people’s behaviours, as well as architectural practices over different countries, cultures and programs. The Master’s studies in Architecture and Urban design at Politecnico di Milano lead me to understanding the need of a strong strategy as a starting point of the development and the realization of a project, in order to understand its feasibility through time. These projects are products of collaboration and teamwork to face the importance of the decision for the common good that lead my approach through different tasks, always looking for innovative solutions based on the problems and opportunities.
For more works, you may check my online portfolio:
antoniopiga.myportfolio.com
Contents Healingscapes
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Master | Final studio Prof. S. Capolongo, E. Faroldi, S. Sbattella Coll | Michael Bekele Deribe, AnĂŹ Sevinyan
Living Livigno
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Master | Thematic studio Prof. I. Inti, R. Mazzoni, I. Toselli Coll: Michael Bekele Deribe
Come in Solari
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MIAW 2020 | Milan International Architectural Worrkshop Visiting Prof | Cany Ash Coll | 10 members teamwork
AnticafĂŠ neighbourhood
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Master | Architectural design studio Prof. J. M. Garcia Fuente, C. Pallini Coll: Luca Zanotti, Martina Bertuzzi
School of domes
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Master | Construction & Sustainability studio Prof. Lorenzo Belli, Alessandra Zanelli Coll: Ilaria Pugliese, Camilla Vertua, Angelica Venzor
Redraw Historical Typologies
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Collaboration Arch. Pier Francesco Cherchi Coll: Ivano Zucca, Giovanni Bova
From the soil to the hill
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Competition Beebreeders.com Coll. Federico Serventi
Water pavillion
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Competition competitions.archi Coll. Ivano Zucca, Viola Orgiano
Gateway area Competition Beebreeders.com Coll. Federico Serventi, Edgardo Maxia
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Healingscapes Regenerate the city, community and environment The urban regeneration project of Ex Macello, the former slaughterhouse in Milan, is a theme of the international competition “Reinventing Cities”, which aims to transform the area into a mixed-use district with social housing, student residences and a functional mix to be proposed by the contestants. In the Final Studio 2020, this challenge is addressed with a united approach of urban health and cultural development. Our project represents the ensemble of the cityscapes and landscapes that we want to achieve for Ex Macello, with a character of a healing space in multiple senses: for its users - physically, mentally and spiritually; and for Milan - curing the “wound” of abandonment and decay, and integrating the area within the existing living organism of the city to make them work smoothly together. The key is to consider sustainability not only in terms of energy and environmental aspects but in its broader sense, too: social cohesion along with the high-quality environmental design are among the key features through which urban hWealth could be achieved. For the final videos: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTl32TcVgMc www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbdKEp0bKMU
Vision
Urban approach | 9 requirements vs. proposal
COMPETITION REQUIREMENT
PROJECT PROPOSAL
construction footprint 32% - 52550 m2
constructed area 121344 m2
TOTAL 165300 m2
construction footprint 28% - 44205 m2
constructed area 117737 m2
functional mix 50% - 60672 m2
TOTAL 165300 m2
functional mix 44% - 52093 m2
residential (social housing) 50% - 60672 m2
open spaces 68% - 112450 m2
residential (social housing) 56% - 65644 m2
open spaces 73% - 121095 m2
EXISTING SITUATION construction footprint 46% - 76317 m2
TOTAL 165300 m2 open spaces 54% - 88983 m2
greenery
15%
roads
9%
pavement/asphalt 30%
greenery
39%
pavement with green sports fields & tracks water roads
5% 9% 2% 15%
other pavement
30%
Sustainable efficiency FS2020 | Healingscapes | Group 4
Masterplan
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Social and architectural solutions
Permeable pavement
bushes’ selection
botanical study and design solutions
artemisia annua
berberis vulgaris
deutzia
echinops bannaticus festuca glauca forsythia www.bam.milano.it/the-park/collezione-botanica
aromatic perennial
vibrant remedial
decorative resistent
perennial
wisteria
molinia caerulea
panicum virgatum
aromatic typical aesculus hippocastanum
perennial
perennial
alder
platanus occidentalis
perennial
vibrant typical remedial
perovskia atriplicifolia aromatic remedial
santolina chamaecyparissus perennial
trachelospermum jasminoides aromatic typical
trees’ selection trachelospermum jasminoides aromatic typical carpinus betulus
Plants selection
typical for Milan
pinus nigra
cercis siliquastrum
liquidambar styraciflua vibrant
Sustainable approach | 11
Water system
Reuse cycle
Urban area axo
12 | Final studio
via Lombroso
Step 1 | Connections
Step 4 | Site approach Step 4 | Site approach Conceptual design evolution
South South
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environment natural
healthy,
environment natural liveable atmosphere
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define a safe,
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define an attractive,
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cultural,
Step 2 | Axes
Step 3 | Functions
Step 2 | Axes
Step 3 | Functions
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via Lombroso void after demolition
Step 1 | Connections
full
street
void after demolition
full
preserve the green
accessibility accessibility
the green axis of thepreserve historical buildings
streetbridge
bridge
axis of the historical buildings
Step 5 | Main areas
Step 6 | Landscape design
Step 5 | Main areas
Step 6 | Landscape design
Axo view
Ground floor axo
Project area | 13
Health
Sport
Leisure
Activities
Living Livigno Through and beyond the Winter Olympics Our proposal for the Olympic village site of Livigno aims to prepare the city and the citizens to this big event before, during and after.
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Architecture: the Olympic village made us consider a program and some functions related to the residents’ needs and the whole organization of the big events, so we are designing new buildings that could serve before the need of the community, than the Olympic games, and later have an impact on the future development of Livigno and its tourism.
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Landscape: following and implementing the established points by the IOC and the Olympics through a sustainable plan, we want to enhance the qualities of water and mountains by allowing their use all year long, considering the dry, liquid and solid conditions of the water and empowering the areas in close proximity to the water to let the users be more in contact with nature.
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Planning: in order to organize private and public associations, activities and workers in the area linking existing and new functions, defining a supportive machine to the Olympic village and to the economic growth of Livigno by using sport, culture and recreation.
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For more info about the class/studio research: https://milanocortina2027lab.wordpress.com/
Legend From 3000 to 3800 slm From 3000 to 3800 slm From 3000 to 3800 slm From 1500 to 2000 slm From 3000 to 3800 slm From 800 to 1500 slm From 3000 to 3800 slm Lakes Lakes Mountain huts Mountain Hydroelectric powerhuts plants Hydroelectric power plants Levissima company Water sources Levissima factory Dams Water sources Project areas Dams Project path Project path Existing paths Existing paths Rivers Rivers Borders Watershed boundary Borders Watershed boundary From 3000 to 3800 slm
From 2500 to 3000 slm From 2000 to 2500 slm
Alta Valtellina map analysis
Planning development
Water & topography
Agriculture & wood
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City & history
Site Analysis
Site analysis & potentials Site area 480.000 m2 Built area 164.000 m2
Streets 29.800 m2
O. Village 50.000 m2
Project development
O.V. mobility
Improve
O.V. Service zone
Collaborate
Residential area 53.500 m2 Services 80.700 m2 Natural area 316.000 m2
New functions
Federia River 18.300 m2
Activate
Public greenery 63.000 m2
Enhance public space
Private agriculture 234.700 m2
O.V. Residence core
Control and maintein
New park
Landscape axon view
Project actions Planning Sport hub activities Thematic seasonal events Touristic network Involve association Involve community Involve private owners Cultural activities Young work training Urban Street enlargement Street level raising Pedestrian path definition Permeable parking place Landscape Lakeside enlargement Natural park River control Hydroponic plant use Flower planting Land modification Architecture Watersport hub Association centre Info point Cultural centre 2 Bar/canteen TIcket point Control area
Flooding risk 4m al
Normal condition
8m al
Maximum condition Historical river Land slide risk Soil control
Risks and management plan
16 | Thematic studio
Dismantling the site of the gravel factory and the stadium hill
Section of the park
Sport field
Gentle hill
Axonometric masterplan view
Building a new park, moving the land, defining gentle slopes and new river sides
Gravel slope Flat land
Bar/Canteen
WC System of green terraces
Gravel slope
Water plants
River
Landscape development | 17
March to may August to November Activities Taste local products Football games Leisure & relax into nature Running Cycling Healthcare activities
November to March Activities Winter sports Winter activities Nordic sky Taste local products Ice skating Ice hockey
May to August Activities Taste local food Discover the river Football games Leisure and relax Running Cycling Planting Yoga sessions
Seasonal axonometries
18 | Thematic studio
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Distribution
Functional diagram
Architectural plan
Lake winter view
Eclosed space Glazed space Interior space To the landscape To the surrounding
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Architectural development | 19
Sections 1 | On existing builted bases Needs a wooden framing support
2 | On the agricultural land Short poles to detach from the ground
Larch wood roof
Larch wood roof
Wooden frame structure
Wooden frame structure
Envelop | Wooden walls
Envelop | Wooden walls
Glass openings
Glass openings
Hardwood floring
Hardwood floring
Floor joists Wooden beam
Floor joists
Concrete slab
Concrete slab
Poured concrete foundation wall
3 | On the rocky lake side Long piers for stability and water
Wooden poles Concrete foundation blocks
Wooden piers
Construction system
Views: Michael Bekele Deribe
Lake summer view
Come in Solari The final products realized is an architectural project video as the result of the MIAW 2020 intensive workshop at Politecnico di Milano
Participants: Architect/visiting professor: ASH CANY, studio Ash Sakula architects Ashsak.com Tutor: PORRO FRANCESCA Students: BELLISARIO MATTIA, BIN SYED AHMAD SYED
YUNUS ALMAHDALY, DAI WANG, EL SAHLI LINDA, ERGUR LARA, FRIEDMAN MIRA MATIAS, FU YUXIN, GULTEKIN FURKAN, KIBERA MARIA, MAGNINI CHIARA, MIZERIA JAKUB, MONTERO CORINA, PIGA ANTONIO, PUGLIESE ILARIA, QUIROS VAN OUTRIVE ANA SOFIA, SHAHVERDIPOUR BAFANDEH AREIAN, SPASOVA MIRA, TOSINI BEATRICE, TRIBE SHANNON LEIGH, VERTUA CAMILLA, YANG JUNYI, YI LIU, ZAMBELLI ARIANNA
Working on Parco Solari Metro 4 station visioning and projecting new potential spaces. The areas become key nodes to rethink infrastructure as a tool to activate and regenerate urban and territorial processes.
For the video and more infos visit the webpage:
https://readymag.com/u35301582/vetrasolari/
Daytime project view
Workshop | 21
Night time project view
AnticafĂŠ neighbourhood Located in the fascist city of Latina, where the strong monumental facades, the large widthness of the streets and the huge voids of the square contribute to generate an atmosphere of loneliness and unidentity. The project is adapted to the rules of city center. The building close the neighboorhood; it defines a rithm and a grid; it stays permeable from the streets creating an internal space like a couthyard for the people; it is flexible and customizable by the inhabitants. The new platforms grow in height with the city and the nature. The whole defines a multifunctional building made by a theatre, a library, an open cafĂŠ, a garden, coworking areas and a lot of free spaces that the community must appropriate to create a the spirit of the place from the participation.
Design concept
Model 1:100
Site approach | 23
Volumetric evolution
View: Luca Zanotti
Street view
24 | Architectural design studio
Right perspective section
Left perspective section
Atmosphere | 25
Open library
The garden
Area relax
Exploded view
Views: Luca Zanotti
Theatre
26 | Architectural design studio
Technical plan
3rd storey plan
Left front view
Left section
Details | 27
Steel-concrete connection
Slab and garden
Curtain wall
Steel-concrete connection
Slab and garden
Curtain wall
Perspective section
28 |
School of domes The project is located in In-Gall, a city of the desertic area of Niger, that was famous for the route of Tuareg. The aim is to create an adaptable space for the common good that can be moved like the nomads and located where it can be usefull. It is a school for everibody, built all togheter for the inhabitants. It is defined by 3 different size domes where che bags filled by soil are the mass, while the dome roof are flexible made by a structure in local wood and a cover made by cuscions of palm fiber and camel wool. The construction is defined listening the place, the history of the nomads, the local technics and the enthusiasm of the people who could learn how to substain themselves working all togheter learning how to use the nature even in so hard conditions.
Model Dome 1:20
Joint construction
Context focus | 29
Community Center Innovative areas Water towers
Innovative learning
Local materials
Tecnical plan
Town Vegetation (Acacia)
0,5 km
Agricultural fields River
Localization
30 | Construction & Sustainability studio
Traditional knowledge
Flexibility and reversibility
Pavilion
Warka tower
Roof configurations
Longitudinal section
PRINCIPLES 3.4 “Eco-Efficacy” Construction techniques | 31
Technological materials
Biological materials
“Eco - effi
PROJECT OF ENERGY
Soil
Polypropilene bags
Eco efficacy
x 11 Polypropilene bags filled with soil to make walls
Soil comes back as soil
Polypropilene comes back as polypropilene
Bio (Water climatic strategy 4.3 RES + Health)
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Used water from facilities is filtered and used as irrigation for crops. Rain water as well as the water from the nearby river will be captured, filtered and reused. The captured water will serve to be used for the necessities of the building as well as the users.
After their use, bags can be empty
Used water from facilities will be filtered and used as irrigation for crops.
Soil reuse
Water reuse Captured water is filtered again and turned into consumable water which will later develop into human waste to be filtered and used as irrigation for crops.
Captured water is filtered again and turned into consumable water.
Water is develop into human waste to be filtered and used as irrigation for crops. .
Tecnical section
32 | Construction & Sustainability studio
Construction kit
Shovel
Ladder Shovel
Ladder Shovel
Bucket Ladder
Bucket Ladder
Rope
Through the simplicity the building can be assembled in four phases. Here we can see the third one. The process is simple because it listen the community, using the local materials and their ancient technics. In doing so the project is sustainable, cheap and everybody can built it following the instructions. The people with the participation generate a learning approach, everybody is contributing to the common good and creating a sense of identity and unity.
1 PLACING THE STRUCTURE
Bucket
2 FILLING THE VOID
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The dig is re-filled to ensure that bags would load their weight down
Rope Bucket
Rope
Rope 3 FILLING THE BAGS FROM THE BOTTOM...
4 ... TO THE TOP
5 POSSIBILTY OF UNFILLING THE BAGS BY REVERSING THE PROCESS
The bag is divided into three parts that opens with zippers for easily placement of earth
Draw: Ilaria Pugliese
CONSTRUCTION K CONSTRUCTIO
- PLACEMENT OF THE STR - FILLING THE BAGS - REVERSIBILITY OF THE P
Details | 33
Axonometric section
34 |
Redraw historical typologies The building was realized in1856 by the architect Gaetano Cima, Cagliari’s technical office director. The reason that generate this drawing is to support the piece of Professor Francesco Cherchi published in “Domus, April 2015”. The aim is to describe the authority of the work of Cima. This work is an axonometric rappresentation of the original project because today is polluted by different and disconnected additions. It emphazises the complexity of the plant, as it is a new functional organization for an hospital, based on the prison’ scheme.
Original plant, front and section view
Domus publication | 35
From the soil to the hill The area is the entrance of Kemeri natural park, far from urban development. The project is shaped from the bogs and the soil, growing in its natural shape between the trees, imposing its massive silhouette in a completely flat plain. The idea is to redefine the landscape: the cave under the hill encourage the visitors to explore in a dark foggy atmosphere. Entering through two different thresholds, a person can perceive the intimacy of a narrow space, being surprised by the distributive open space that links all the functional areas. Moving forward into the visit, following the slope, lightened from above, the user will be reconnected to the landscape, having a complete view of the surroundings till he reaches the rooftop bar. The hill is a charming landmark that link architecture and nature.
View: Federico Serventi
The hill from the street
Site development | 37
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Planimetry
Perspection section A-A
38 | Competition - Bee Breeders
Tecnological solutions
Plant-E
Phitodepuration
Constructive system Exploded view
Water accumulation
Waste reuse
New fuctions | 39
Bar
Bar
Museum
Cave
Playground
Playground
Camping site
Views: Federico Serventi
Camping site
Water pavillion The project is located in the Oriental bay of Wellington, a place where locals and tourists go to enjoy long walks along the sea and under the hill. The design is referred to the mite of discovering of Aotearoa: the Hook and the Soil as symbol of origin and protection. The pavillion is a charming landmark that grows in regard of the Bay connecting beach and boulevard. The hook is defined from the first pavilion, its shape generate different spaces where a person could contemplate the nature and the city. The open spaces simply defined by walls and slopes aloud the people to play with the shapes and the materials; to feel the waves under they feets; to relax in an open courtyard, protected from the wind and the noise of the city.
View: Viola Orgiano
Aerial view
Site development | 41
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B
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Planimetry
Promenade view
Civic hall section A-A
Amphitheatre section B-B
The new context
42 | Competition.archi
The pavement in peach colored gum invites to lay down and the curved wall could amplify the sounds. The paths create the movement through the vertical elements. The wooden tiles aloud the waves to sound inside the project. Descending and ascendant ways in grey concrete create continuity between the bay and the sea. The wall in light blue aluminium panels is perfectly levigated, it changes in transparency with the of holes becoming an attraction that shapes the light into the square. The interior space looks like a white monolites made by irregular exagonal ceramics. It invites people to enter from the dark atrium, that compress the space; than it slowly opens to the whole white room lightened by zenital natural light. It aloud conference, but it could be organized as an exposition hall. Plan path
Soil
Pathways
Civic hall
Descendant path
Contruction criterias | 43
A
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Beach level plan
Sea front view
Longitudinal section A-A
The system is all made by steel that as an high resistance against the weather conditions and the solty water. Different grids of orizzontal steel beams are posed over the old basement. The connection with the pillars is defined by dampers to aloud orizzontal movement and to preserve stability in case of an heart quake. Vertical elements are combined by oblique braces to define a structural organism that prevent any directional external forces. The different superficial panels are connected to the pillars to define omogeneus surfaces where the characteristics of each material can be fully expressed. Details
Gateway park The main condition of the park is nature, embodied in the project through the tree configuration. The tree structure is composed by trunk, branches and leaves as: paths, clusters and functions, The purpose is to bring people in an intimate condition, through the subdivision of different areas always in contact with nature. It is in the domestic dimension where is possibile to reach the maximum intimacy, which is embodied in the project by the archetypical house shape. This form is applied to every building with the aim of creating a village for the visitors of the park. The in-between spaces inside every cluster is a patio generated to serve all the cluster itself. The gap between the different clusters creates a community space.
View: Edgardo Maxia
The Root threshold
The Tree Village
Gateway
Site development | 45
West front view
Gate perspective section
B A
B A
Planimetry
46 | Competition - Bee Breeders
Wooden skin
The clusters
Glass openings
Internal finitures The path
Wooden frame structure
The ground
Lighting
Geothermal heating
Foundation pillars
Water
Composition criterias | 47
Waiting area
Views: Federico Serventi
The tower
Aerial view
48 | Competition - Bee Breeders
Waiting area a Waiting room
37,5mq
b Info point
12,5mq
c Toilette
22mq
d Corridor
9,5mq
e Courtyard
32mq
f Playground
38mq
g Office
39mq
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West longitudinal section B-B
Waiting area perspective section
Functional areas | 49
Ranger area a Storage
15mq
b Corridor
13,5mq
c Bedroom
18,5mq
d Bathroom
7,2mq
e Living room f Kitchen g Courtyard
c
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17,5mq 12mq
a
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21,8mq
East longitudinal section A-A
Ranger area perspective section
In a world that is constantly changing, the unknown is the territory to explore and enhance.