COSIMO SCOTUCCI SELECTED WORKS
SUNTIME PAVILION How achitecture can respond to different enviromental necessities?
VERTICAL SCREENS
The aim of the project is to promote the enjoyment of the movement of the sun along its path
HORIZONTAL PROTECTION
The pavilion should also work as a shelter against the rain or as a shading system turing the hot days
MERGING WALL AND CELING IN ORDER TO CREATE A NEW ARCHITYPES TO RESPOND SIMULTANELY TO DIFFERENT ENVIROMENTAL NEEDS. SHAPE RESPONDS TO 360° NATURE COMPLEXITY.
MERGING
A single shape can perform all the functions. The natural enviroment and the human needs are merged in a shape
FEELINGS
Material and structure are the same of the typical of he seaside. The project aims to evoke the maritime feelings
The aim of the project is to improve a pedestrian pier. This pier is very popular due to its location, people come from all around in every season because there is a amazing view of the sunrise at east, and of the sunset in the other side. The goal is to create something that enhances this aspect and also is a shelter from the rain and from the wind as well as shade in summer. In order to create a unique shape that fuse all the elements, a series of stretched sails twist from westside to eastside through 180 degree become a canopy in the middle .
To respect the nature of the place the project aims to remind to visitors the swelled sails of a boat in the middle of the see. In a way the visitors will be transported emotionally to anather atmosphere. To create something that belongs to this place the structural solution is based on the ship sails technology, which use a catenary structure of steel tension cables supported by a steel pipe grid. This solution allows to have at the same time a very light design and a strong structure.
The translucent nature of the fabric material allows to the pavilion to merge itself in the colour of the environment becoming uniform part of the panorama. In order to give to the people the possibility to enjoy the relaxing moment that they are been looking for being there two set of steps are lifted from the ground. These sits can host different kind of activities during all the year long.
Credits: Architect: Cosimo Scotucci Type: Proposal Location: Venice, Italy Year: 2016
HOUSESIDE DOWN How a unique section can respond to different functions?
SITE
The site is the extension of a typical talian villa surrounded by soft hills, green and old trees.
EXTRUSION
The extension starts from the existing shape of the pre existing building to double up the floor area.
TURNING UPSIDE-DOWN THE “HOUSE-SECTION” THE NEW SHAPE RESPONDS PERFECTLY TO DIFFERENT PROGRAMS. FORM AND FUNCTION ARE MERGED IN ONE.
TWIST
Turning upside-down the typical section to create a new iconc volume that belongs to a deep vernachular element.
TRIBUNES
The staircases created thanks to the deformation can be used for special events or for daily shows.
An important italian fashion company wants to create a space for catwalks in its first office. The client asked for a very felexible space that could be able to change and being used for exposition of their projects and products or for catwalks. The request is for a new building that extends the historical office. The place is a classical red brick villa in Tuscany surrounded by hills, trees and green. The aim of the project is to relate the new building with the existing, using the villa as a starting point to create a new typology of architecture that it merges itself with the
surrounding buildings but, at the same time, to be very iconic to reflect the quality of the company. From the shape of the existing building, the new volume starts and it finishes with the same shape but upside down. The resulting shape has a counter-pitched-roof that allows to create a double staircase that can be used as a seats for audience during the events and catwalks or as a platform to show the products. The connection between the starting and finishing section is made by a smooth curve in order to create a gentle angle
that allow to have a walkable tribune that grows according to the regulation. The corten steel panels provide to integrate the new shape into the environment. The colour of the building is the echo of the pre-existence but at the same time, the different nature between bricks and corten differentiating the two entities. As bricks have done for centuries the corten panels will change during the years continuing the historical process of the site and the architecture. A new form of vernachularism has been created.
Credits: Architect: Cosimo Scotucci Type: Commission Location: Macerata, Marche, Italy Year: 2016
@ RESTAURANT How a roof can be morphed to maximise the quality of internal and external spaces?
SITE
The site is located in Biblioteca degli Alberi in the very heart of the new developping area of Milan.
EXTRUSION
The building is extruded till the maximum hight allowed by the regulaion.
LIFTING THE ROUND, AND THE PARK, TO AN HIGHER LEVEL GIVES THE POSSIBILITY TO CREATE AN EXTENTION OF THE PUBLIC REALM. ARCHITECTURE BECOME A HYBRID BETWEEN BUILDING AND NATURE.
MOVE EDGE
Pushing down an edge of the building, the shape deform in a walkable roof that configures the internal space
SPIRAL
The continous spiral staircase extend the public realm to an higher level creating a space to socialize and for events.
During the Design Week, Milan becomes the place to be for everyone who wants to express himself, or to look at new trends. The client asks for an iconic structure for a temporary bar that can express the ideology of his company, exalting the name of the company “@-RESTAURANT”. The site is located inside a new park designed by Petra Blaisse in a very growing area. The new building needs a kitchen, a space for sitting (inside and outside) to enjoy the food and also a bar. The shape is defined on a “@ proj-
ect” and thanks to a deformation (lifting up an edge) the volume is perfect to locate all the functions having higher ceiling for the living area and smaller for the kitchen and services. The outdoor space also is designed to have the exterior sittings next to the entrance and to echo the @. The shape allows to have a walkable staircase as rooftop in order to have a social space and a way to view the amazing 360 degree panorama on the top. The lifted @ shape allows furthermore to have a free place where people can stay, enjoy the park or to have a social moment with their
friends. In order to respect the location, the natural context all the parts of the project are made in wood, this allows to have a very simple structure and to have lower costs. The inside space is caracterized by a turning structure around a line that create a suggestive volume and also a very large glass facade allows to have a wonderful view of the park and life inside it.
Credits: Architect: Cosimo Scotucci Type: Proposal Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy Year: 2016
ASTERISK How the best musuem circulation can become a city icon ?
PROGRAM
The museum program is divided in common areas as as lobby ,bar and guardrobes and private collection
SUBDIVISION
Every part of the program si deconstruct in single functional rooms, creating a series of different spaces.
THE CONTINUOS PATH OF THE MUSEUM SHAPES THE BUILDING AND ALLOWS VISITOR TO MOVE FROM A ROOM TO AN OTHER. THE COLLECTION’S ORGANIZATION TAKE SHAPE IN REALITY.
POLAR ARRAY
All the rooms are rotate arround a focal point creating a continuous cerculation ring in the inner part and a series of room in the outer.
VERNACULARIZATION
All the rooms take the typical sourrounding shape of the itched rooms that domains in the whole city.
In a Swiss valley, the municipality asks for a new museum able to attract people from all around. The shape takes the design from a polar array of a block, shaped like a pitched roof house, that creates a courtyard building. Thanks to this kind of arrangement all the functions are arranged around a circular path that allows to have a continuous way to enjoy the museum, thus entrance and exit coincide. The pitched roof shape of each block is designed to integrate the mass of the museum in the context, made of
detached country houses, also the material of the facade, corten steel, evokes the color of the surroundings. Furthermore all the functions are located in order to have a correct sunlight, indirect for the galleries and direct for the hall and the public functions where people stay. All the galleries are located from the North-East to North-West in order to control the temperature inside them to preserve the integrity of the artistic installations. The shape of the building gives to visitor the possibility to enjoy an omni directional view towards the panorama.
The singular shape of the museum, made by the typical sourrounding house shape want to be an iconic vernacular architecture that try to use the local ingredients to make something new.
Credits: Architect: Cosimo Scotucci Type: Competition Location: Abredo Castione, Switzerland Year: 2016
THE EYE How s possible to respect the surrounding, reinventing a classical arhetype?
1ST STREET
The first block of the building is parallel to the the street, in order to front the park.
2ST STREET
The second block follows the main street direction creating a V shape building.
DEFORMIND IN 3D THE CLASSICAL COURTYARD ARCHETYPE THIS NEW TYPOLOGY KEEP THE QUALITY OF THE PREVIOUS ADDING MORE. 3D COURTYARD IS THE DARWINIAN EVOLUTION OF THE SPECIES.
COURTYARD
Connecting the two primary elements the building became a courtyard building like all the others arround.
LIFT UP
The brunch on the main street is lifted up in order to create a 3d courtyard and a covered drop off area..
The building is located in a strategic location. All the surrounding buildings basicaly have a courtyard scheme and they are the extrusion of their site. The general construction rules allow only this kind of situation so the aim of the project was to find out a solution, made on this scheme, that was 2.0 in terms of sustainability. The building goal is to find out an evolutionary offspring of the courtyard building. The new courtyard building is designed lifting up one side in order to create a cantilevered volume that allows to have
a main entrance and a covered dropoff area. Instead to have a private couryard this solution allows to enjoy the “inner� space with the city creating a new plaza for events. Lifting up the volumes allows to the building to get more sunlight during the winter time in which light time is very short.In this way a typical self-referential architecture scheme starts to talk with the context offering its most important character to the citizens. The building has two different natures. This is reflected on the materialization of the facade.
The building is divided in floors but the facade in front follow a smooth curve in order to do not breack the surrounding look like. The outer facade is made by milky glass in order to distribute omogenusly the light inside.
Credits: Architect: Cosimo Scotucci Type: Competition Client: Private Location: Paris, France Year: 2016
HYPERPUSH How the functional light needs can shape a museum?
SITE
The site located in a new developping area with a coverage ratio of 50%
EXTRUSION
The maximum buildable area is extruded up according the FAR given proportion.
PUSHING OVER THE BORING BOX SHAPE CREATES A MUSEUM ABLE TO RESPOND PHYSICALLY TO PROGRAMMATIC NEEDS. FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTIONAL INTERNAL LIGHT NECESSITIES.
PUSH
Overpushing one side of the building it gets deformed create a new iconic building.
GLASS
The new shape allows to common area to have direct light from the South and diffuse and indirect illumination in the galleries part.
The museum have a multi purpose program which comprises private expositions and public area. The project takes into consideration the quality and the light’s needs of the different functions, so, thanks to his shape, all the galleries have an indirect illumination that comes from the North or zenital. At the same time the living spaces as the hall, the bar and the free lobby are exposed to the South and so they receive a warm light during all the year. The museum is located at the center of the site to isolate himself from the noise of the streets and also a green park is planned in
the South side where the noise is stronger as a natural frontier. The concrete ribbon facade allows to have some interiors spaces totally without natural light for the multimedia rooms and the projections room. The exterior space is setted up to have a large square in front of the main hall and a path that invites pedestrians to come at museum walking through the park. So, the light, warm or cold, direct or not, become part of the museum such as the art inside. The large indows gives to visitors a spectacular view towards the surrounding.
The cross section of the building move from the classical rectangular shape on the sides to a triangular one in the center. This simple principle guarantees the twist of the building without affeceting hardly the structure.
Credits: Architect: Cosimo Scotucci Type: Competition Location: Guangzhou, China Year: 2016
CONTAINER-YARD How the repetition of a single house can become a complex organism?
SITE
The building plot is located right in front of the see surrounded in the other 3 sides from an urban enviroment.
EXTRUSION
The buildings is stretch up and down in order to guarantee better views o all the units
TURNING UPSIDE-DOWN THE “HOUSE-SECTION” THE NEW SHAPE RESPONDS PERFECTLY TO DIFFERENT PROGRAMS. FORM AND FUNCTION ARE MERGED IN ONE.
CONTOUR
The shape get stepped to offer to inhabitants living terraces on the top part of the building.
PATTERN
Carving out a units every 2 the building get a brick shape that allows to every units to have is own outdoor space.
The nature of the place, the site is located closer to the harbor, is very industrial. To merge the project with this heritage and to respect the will of prefabricated houses that are made from containers. The brick disposition allow to create a mixed use space between houses where people can enjoy the good weather, socialize and enjoy the view. On top there are gardens to redistribute the nature lifted from the ground. At the ground level there are all the public functions such
as bar and shops and on the higher levels there are houses. Stairs and elevators are located in the corner in common between containers to allow to arrive in all the houses. The ground is very permeable and that allows to access at the interior garden located in the middle of coutyard, so, a typical private space becomes pubblic. The double picked shape allows to guarantee a better views to the units creating also a reconazable building from the see. The brick pattern allows also to increments the cross
ventilation. The green on the terracess help to cool down the air blocking the noise and the pollution from the heavy traffic arround.
Credits: Architect: Cosimo Scotucci Type: Competition Location: Portland, Maine, USA Year: 2016
GRADIENTOWER How the facade position can generate different quality spaces?
EXTRUSION
The tower is located within a new masterplan of towers surrounded by generic housing blocks.
PROGRAMME
The program is mainly divided in 2: offices and houses.
THE FACADE SET BACK GUARANTEE TO USER AND INHABITANTS TO STAY IN A SPACE DEFINED FOR THEM AND THEIR DAILY LIFE . PRAGMATIC APPROCH GIVES TO MODERNISM A VERNACULAR IDENTITY.
TAPER
The lower part of the tower facade, where the houses are, is set backed in order to guarantee and outdoor space.
GRADIENT
Copying all the way up the movement of facade generate a dynamic building that move from house program to office one, from terraces to curtain wall.
The Shenzhen’s municipality decide to implement a lowrise area with a new Masterplan of towers. This area is surrounded by mid-rise residential towers. Within the Masterplan the eastern area is destined for office towers whereas the western one is for mixed use buildings.The idea is to create a functional-stuck tower with houses on the lower part responding to the height of the surrounding buildings and on the higher offices according to the planned ones. Since the modernist time the architectural market is asking
for galzed towers all around the World, but this is not sustainable anymore so we decided to do not skip the market demand but to find a way to be vernacular and green. To emphasize the quality of both spaces the glass of the building moves. It is sent back for the houses in order to create deep balconies all around the apartments that provide shades during the hot summer and a lovely outdoor space in the other periods of the year, a real extension of the indoor.
In the office part the glass is offsetted out in order to create a double-layered ventilated facade that provide a better thermal insulation. This also allows to have a better control of the quality of the light into the building.
Credits: Architect: Cosimo Scotucci Type: Competition Location: Shenzhen, China Year: 2016