Presentación En 2004 Fabrizio Barozzi y Alberto Veiga inician su actividad profesional conjunta y fundan Barozzi Veiga, oficina que centra su práctica profesional en el desarrollo de concursos de arquitectura y urbanismo en el ámbito público. Barozzi /Veiga ha sido ganador de numerosos concursos, destacando entre ellos, la Rehabilitación del Palacio de Santa Clara en Úbeda, el Auditorio y Palacio de Congresos de Águilas, la Sede del Consejo Regulador de la D.O. Ribera del Duero en Roa, la Filarmónica de Szczecin, el Musée de Beaux-arts en Lausanne, la ampliación del Museo de bellas artes en Chur, la Escuela de Música en Brunico y la Tanzhaus en Zürich. El trabajo de Barozzi / Veiga ha sido presentado en diversas exposiciones y publicado en multitud de revistas especialicadas, tanto en ámbito nacional como internacional. Entre los distintos premios con los que han sido galardonados destacan el Premio Ajac 2007, concedido por el Colegio de Arquitectos de Cataluña, el Premio internacional de Arquitectura “Barbara Cappochin” 2011, el Premio especial Medalla de Oro para la Mejor Obra Prima otorgada por la Trienal di Milano 2012 y el Premio Giovane talento dell’architettura italiana 2013 asignado por el CNAPPC. En mayo de 2015, el estudio ha ganado el Premio Mies van der Rohe otorgado por la Comisión Europea y la Fundación Mies van der Rohe.
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Biografía Fabrizio Barozzi
Se gradúa como arquitecto en 2003 por el Istituto Universitario di Architettura de Venezia, completando su formación en la Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Sevilla y el Ecole d’Architecture de Paris La Villette. En 2004 se asocia con Alberto Veiga y establecen su propio estudio profesional en Barcelona. Ha sido Profesor de Proyectos en la Universidad Internacional de Cataluña en Barcelona desde 2007 hasta 2009. Desde 2009 es Profesor Asociado de Proyectos en la Universidad de Girona. En 2013 y en 2014 ha sido Visiting Profesor en el Instituto Universitario de Arquitectura de Venecia.
Alberto Veiga
Se gradúa como arquitecto en 2000 por la “ETSA de Navarra”. En 2004 se asocia con Fabrizio Barozzi y establecen su propio estudio profesional en Barcelona. Ha sido Profesor de Proyectos en la Universidad Internacional de Cataluña en Barcelona desde 2007 hasta 2009. En 2014 ha sido Visiting Profesor en el Instituto Universitario de Arquitectura de Venecia.
Premios 2015
Mies van der Rohe Award. European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture International FAD Award. Arquinfad. International Opinion FAD Award Life in Architecture Award. Architektura Murator Nagroda Architektoniczna Polityki. Polityka Lamp Lighting Solutions Awards. Shortlisted European Architectural Heritage Award. Shortlisted
2014
Design Vanguard Award. Architectural Record New York
2013
Young Talent of Italian Architecture Award. National Council of Italian Architects
2012
Gold Medal of the Italian Architecture. IV Triennale di Milano. Best debut work ECOLA Award. Special mention FAD Awards. Shortlisted
2011
Renzo Piano Foundation Award. Shortlisted Barbara Cappochin International Architecture Award. International Biennial Arch.
2008
Europe 40 under 40 Award. Chicago Athenaeum. Selected Iakov Chernikhov International Prize. Shortlisted Biennial of Venice. Selected works Rizoma – Biennial of Best Italian Architects. Shortlisted
2007
Best Young Catalan Office. AJAC Young Catalan Architects Young Architect of the Year. Leaf Award by Emirates Glass with RIBA Best Spanish Young Architects. N.I.B. Shortlisted
Proyectos seleccionados
2004 - 2011
Auditorium y Palacio de Congresos Águilas. España Concurso international Primer premio
La dualidad del auditorio surge de la contradicción del emplazamiento donde se sitúa – entre la belleza del paisaje litoral y la dureza y heterogeneidad del contexto urbano –, en el límite de la ciudad y entre dos realidades. Por un lado, la volumetría del edificio se define a partir de condicionantes paisajísticos inmediatos, como el perfil de la costa, la relación con el horizonte y el litoral. Las superficies cóncavas de las fachadas, orientadas al mar, representan las tensiones entre arquitectura y contexto de forma que el edificio establece, de un modo natural, un diálogo con el paisaje y sus elementos: la luz y el mar enfrentados al edificio. Por otra parte, la interacción con la ciudad se produce de un modo antagónico. La geometría clara y estricta de la fachada frente a las edificaciones próximas es una marca de confrontación urbana donde el edificio establece sus límites.
Planta baja - Foyer Auditorium.
Secci贸n transversal
2006 - 2011
Sede de la Denominación de Origen Ribera Del Duero Roa. España Concurso international Primer premio
La condición fundamental del proyecto se encuentra en el espacio fronterizo donde se sitúa el edificio, junto a la antigua muralla y en el límite de Roa de Duero, entre lo artificial y lo natural, entre lo urbano y el paisaje. En relación con la ciudad, el proyecto es atento y trabaja a pequeña escala, cosiendo y recomponiendo el tejido urbano mediante el modelado de unos volúmenes que responden a la premisa de la construcción de una plaza. En relación con el paisaje hay un cambio de escala y actitud representado en la torre. Este elemento arquetípico ligado a la memoria del lugar establece una relación de monumentalidad con la meseta castellana. El proyecto materializado con sillares de piedra local y concebido como un elemento grave y de gran masa refuerza la idea de un edificio sin durabilidad limitada construido con un material que va mutando y alterándose con el paso del tiempo.
Planta baja - La plaza publica
Secci贸n transversal
2007 - 2014
Filarmónia Szczecin. Polonia Concurso international Primer premio
La Filharmonia es un proyecto sintético que comparte elementos de identidad de su contexto cercano, en el que predominan la masa, la verticalidad y la forma de las cubiertas, pero que también lo identifican con el resto de la ciudad. La carga expresiva del edificio, concentrada en la matriz que moldea la cubierta y en su corona perimetral, es resultado de la influencia de cierta arquitectura expresionista Centroeuropea. Desde el exterior, el edificio se percibe como un volumen de gran ligereza en el que la fachada de vidrio – a veces traslúcida, a veces opaca – transmite cualidades expresivas en función de su uso. Desde el interior, el traslado de los espacios de servicio y los núcleos de comunicación hacia el perímetro aporta al edificio una relación sensible con el exterior, al tiempo que delimita un ámbito libre, reservado para el protagonismo de la sala sinfónica y de cámara.
Planta primera
Secci贸n longitudinal
2011 - 2016
Museo de Bellas Artes Lausanne. Suiza Concurso international Primer premio
El objetivo de este proyecto es transformar esta parte de la ciudad de Lausanne en un barrio dedicado a las artes, conformado por los tres principales museos de la ciudad: Bellas Artes, Fotografía y Artes decorativas. Hay una doble reflexión en este proyecto. La primera gira entorno a la estrategia urbana a seguir y la segunda sobre el concepto arquitectónico del Museo de Bellas Artes. El concepto del Museo de Bellas Artes, tanto interior como exteriormente, se concibe como un fondo sobre el que componer las distintas realidades que se mostrarán en él. De cara a las vías, el edificio es un muro que protege el espacio público al que se abre, mientras que en su interior es una ampliación del espacio exterior, por lo que su secuencia espacial cede protagonismo a la función que alberga. Al igual que una gran fábrica industrial donde la estructura es la que domina sobre la composición de las fachadas, el edificio se define como un muro habitado que divide con precisión el mundo industrial del nuevo espacio público.
Planta baja
Secci贸n longitudinal
2012 - 2016
Museo de Bellas Artes Coira. Suiza Concurso international Primer premio
La ampliación de la Villa Planta, destinada a alojar el Bündner Kunstmuseum, es una operación de integración dentro de un conjunto urbano. El proyecto, a pesar de las fuertes limitaciones de la parcela, trata de minimizar su volumen exterior invirtiendo el orden lógico del programa de usos. De esta manera se genera un nuevo espacio público que incorpora el jardín circundante a la Villa e integra los jardines de los edificios cercanos. La ampliación se entiende como un edificio autónomo, independiente del edificio histórico, aunque se establece un diálogo arquitectónico entre los dos edificios, una clara y coherente relación como un continuum entre la Villa Planta y su extensión. Ambos edificios presentan una planta simétrica central y emplean la geometría como herramienta de cohesión. En cuanto al sistema ornamental, el ornamento de la Villa Planta transmite la influencia oriental de su origen, mientras que en la ampliación el sistema compositivo de sus fachadas refuerza su expresividad y autonomía frente a la Villa. Ambos edificios muestran una identidad propia, basada en unos principios comunes que refuerzan la idea de conjunto.
Planta baja
Secci贸n longitudinal
2011 - 2016
Escuela de música Brunico. Italia Concurso international Primer premio
El centro histórico de Brunico es un singular conjunto urbano (c. 1400) caracterizado por una serie de villas nobiliarias. Tipológicamente cuentan con un extenso jardín delimitado mediante muros. La sede de la actual escuela de música se ubica en Villa Ragen y el proyecto consiste en ampliarla ocupando los terrenos sobre los que antiguamente se extendía la totalidad del jardín. El proyecto de la escuela de música propone una relación alternativa con su contexto sin alterar la identidad del casco antiguo de Brunico y que remarque su presencia. La ampliación de la escuela se realiza en base a su tipología y al conjunto urbano al que pertenece, un sistema de casas con muro que rodea un jardín interior. De la misma manera, para la escuela se crea un muro con un jardín interior, transformado en espacio de referencia al que miran las aulas. Este muro es simplemente un “borde habitado” que responde así a dos objetivos fundamentales: por un lado, dar continuidad al sistema del tejido urbano existente y por otro, destacar la presencia urbana de Casa Ragen, para que la ampliación se entienda como un sobrio edificio complementario de lo existente.
Planta baja
2014 - 2018
Escuela de danza Zürich. Suiza Concurso international Primer premio
El proyecto busca reactivar el paseo peatonal en el curso del río Limmat y conectar los recorridos que tejen el entorno de la orilla mediante un volumen sencillo y compacto que se ajuste a la sección escalonada del emplazamiento. El nuevo edificio, directamente accesible tanto desde el oeste como desde el este de la Wasserwerkstrasse, transforma y recalifica la actual condición residual de su ubicación para convertirla en un nuevo espacio público en el curso del rio. La amplitud espacial frente al edificio y la reducida altura de la fachada que proporciona el volumen ofrece la percepción de un edificio abierto al entorno, de manera que este ámbito pasa a tener una nueva condición pública y urbana como elemento de la identidad del curso del río. El programa del edificio se organiza con claridad en dos niveles escalonados. Los accesos se sitúan en cada uno de los niveles de manera independiente, lo que permite resolver fácilmente las conexiones entre distintos espacios del programa y aquellos relacionados con el entorno.
Planta baja
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2014 -
Casa Cretas. España
Abajo de la carretera principal, un camino a través del bosque conduce a un pabellón de entrada. Una vez dentro, una pequeña Acrópolis aparece en la parte superior de la montaña. Una suave brisa sopla, hay un sentimiento de intimidad y protección. Solo hay pocos volúmenes simples. En el medio, visible pero distante, el áspero paisaje. Un zócalo continuo, elevado, se extiende horizontalmente entre los árboles sobre el terreno en pendiente. Dentro de los pabellones, con reflejos de agua, de fuego, se percibe el brillo del cielo, las sombras ocultas. La luz de la noche penetra en el interior de los altos espacios, dando una sensación de refugio. Se puede sentir la brisa fresca que cruza el patio. Al caer de la noche, bajamos a los espacios privados y intimos de las habitaciones.
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Proyectos 2015
Progetto Montelungo, Bergamo, Italy. Concurso, Primer premio Neubau Krematorium, Thun-Schoren, Switzerland. Concurso, Tercer premio Naturhistorisches Museum und Staatsarchiv, Basel, Switzerland. Concurso , Quinto premio
2014
Haus der Gegenwart, Lenzburg, Switzerland. Concurso, shortlisted Haus der Musik, Innsbruck, Austria. Concurso, finalista Dance School, Zürich, Switzerland. Concurso, Primer premio Expost. Tracciare futuri possibili, Venice, Italy. Exposición Biennale Polo della Meccatronica, Rovereto, Italy. Masterplan Primary School, Suhr, Switzerland. Concurso, shortlisted Mixed-use Building, Renens. Switzerland. Quinto premio
2013
New urban area Follone, Rovereto, Italy. Masterplan Offices for the Deutsche Bundestag, Berlin, Germany. Concurso, shortlisted Cultural Center, Stockholm, Sweden. Concurso, shortlisted Ombre d’artista, Salerno, Italy. Arte publico
2012
New Theater, Beauvais, France. Concurso, finalista Student Center, London, United Kingdom. Concurso, finalista Music School, Brunico, Italy. Concurso, Primer premio Graubünden Museum of Fine Arts, Chur, Switzerland. Concurso, Primer premio
2011
Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland. Concurso, Primer premio
2010
Bank’s Headquarters, Rovereto, Italy. Concurso Art Center, Gijón, Spain. Concurso CSIC Institute, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Concurso, Tercer premio Neanderthal Museum, Piloña, Spain.Concurso, Tercer premio Center of Mediterranean Culture, Alicante, Spain. Concurso, Mención especial Auditorium, Elche, Spain. Concurso
2009
Agrarian Studies Institute, Siena, Italy. Concurso, Segundo premio Hostelry of Tourism, Castuera, Spain. Concurso, Mención especial
2008
Multipurpose Hall, Feldkirch, Austria. Concurso
Proyectos
Congress Hall, Davos, Switzerland. Concurso, shortlisted 2007
Museum of Solidarity, Gdansk, Poland. Concurso Art Museum, Dresden, Germany. Concurso Philharmonic Hall, Szczecin, Poland. Concurso, Primer premio. Realizado Music School, Karlsruhe, Germany. Concurso, Tercer premio Cultural Center, Sant Vincent del Raspeig, Spain. Concurso, Mención especial Visitors and Business Center, Palma, Spain. Concurso, Mención de honor Chamber of Commerce, Barcelona, Spain. Concurso
2006
Multipurpose Facility, Soria, Spain. Concurso Regulatory Council for D.O. Ribera de Duero, Roa, Spain. Concurso, Primer premio. Realizado Visitors Center Bardenas Reales, Tudela, Spain. Concurso, Mención de honor Motorcycle Museum, Madrid, Spain. Concurso, Mención de honor Multifunctional Center, Ancona, Italy. Concurso, Mención de honor
2005
City Theatre, Estepona, Spain. Concurso, Segundo premio Savoy School, Merano, Italy. Concurso, Mención de honor Puez-Odle Visitor Center, Funes, Italy. Concurso, shortlisted
2004
Costanza House, Santander, Spain. Concurso Torres de Cotillas Town Hall, Múrcia, Spain. Concurso Santa Marianella’s Town Hall, Roma, Italy. Concurso, Mención especial Auditorium and Congress Center, Águilas, Spain. Concurso, Primer premio. Realizado Santa Clara Social Housing, Úbeda, Spain. Concurso, Primer premio. Arts Center, Cádiz, Spain. Concurso, Mención de honor
Obras Philharmonic Hall Szczecin, Poland 2007 - 2014
The building emerges from its urban context, influenced by the steeply pitched roofs and the verticality of the city’s buildings, by the monumentality of the upright ornaments of its neo-Gothic churches. With an expressionist mindset, we have aimed to use geometry to give shape to a new rhythmic composition that conveys feelings by balancing massiveness and verticality. The use of glass as the exterior cladding material highlights how the building contrasts with the conditions of its surrounding environment. It creates a bright, transparent and upstanding object. The building’s interiors are simple. The symphonic hall differs from these in that it is a sculpted object, embedded into a barely outlined mineral-like space. Client Surface Commission Status
Regulatory Council for the D.O. Ribera del Duero Roa, Spain 2006 - 2011
The site has been sculpted by both the city and the landscape. The project interprets this situation, revealing the essential traces of the place. Thereupon the building becomes a transitional element, with an awareness towards the re-composition of the small scales of the context, while at the same time, dialoguing with the horizon and the monumentality of the landscape through a towering element, a timeless monolith suspended over the plateau. Through its materialization, with the use of local blocks of stone and the dissonant design of the openings, the project aims both to evoke the landscape through our senses and to open the area to a different spatial experience, placing the proposal in a radically contemporary realm. Client Surface Commission Status
Auditorium and Congress Center Águilas, Spain 2004 - 2011
City of Szczecin 13.000 m2 Competition, first prize Built
Ribera del Duero Board and Castilla Leon Region 3.600 m2 Competition, first prize Built
The project responds to the features that its location provides. On the one hand, it reacts to the need to create ties with the urban tissue, while on the other hand, there is the desire to maintain the expressiveness of its natural setting. This produces a dialectic relationship, between the artifice of the urban realm and the naturalness of what is organic. Consequently, the building’s mass takes shape depending on the tensions produced by its surrounding spaces. Towards the city crisp elevations are composed in an orderly and calm manner. Towards the sea, the landscape’s spatial traits and the geography’s configurations lead to the generation of sweeping concave surfaces in order to create a forceful link between the building and its surrounding natural environment. Client Surface Commission Status
City of Águilas 11.600 m2 Competition, first prize Built
Proyectos en proceso Montelungo Bergamo, Italy 2015 —
The ring perimeter of the Montelungo and Colleoni barracks has been shaped by architectural additions and it is the identifying element of this urban area. The project preserves the characteristic of this urban settlement and defines the creation of a new urban park as a new public space. At the same time, the project transforms the built limit in order to make it permeable and to adapt it to the new public and private functions that it will host. Some existing buildings will be replaced by new buildings maintaining the perimeter of the ring, and creating a new permeability towards the public parks and reorganizing the facades and their relations with the outside. Client Surface Commission Status
Dance School
Zürich, Switzerland 2014 —
The project’s aspiration is to reequip the urban area of the promenade along the Limmat river, maintaining and intensifying the setting’s industrial atmosphere. A simple and compact volume, tiered towards the river, turns the proposal into a topographical element, publicly accessible at all of its levels. Its shape enables the proposal to provide activity to the walk and to define a new urban front facing the river. Through these simple mechanisms the project transforms a currently underused site into a central public space along the course of the river.
Client Surface Commission Status
Music School Brunico, Italy 2012 —
Chur, Switzerland 2012 —
City of Zürich 1.250 m2 Competition, first prize On going
The project proposes an alternative way of inserting the new building in order to preserve the urban specificity of Brunico’s historic quarter and the importance of the historic Casa Ragen. As a result of these considerations, the proposal consists in creating a new constructed perimeter surrounding a garden. By doing this, the design allows us to carry out two essential tasks. The first, to create continuity with the existing urban tissue by completing its layout, analogously following the uninterrupted sequence of noble villas and their adjacent open spaces that makes up such a distinctive townscape. The second, to keep and enhance the urban presence of the Casa Ragen in its surroundings by understanding the extension as an element that compliments the pre-existing building. Client Surface Commission Status
Graubünden Museum of Fine Arts
City of Bergamo 30.000 m2 Competition, first prize On going
City of Brunico 2.200 m2 Competition, first prize On going
The project absorbs and transforms the Palladian order and the Orientalist style, the main compositional features of the Villa Planta, through a central and symmetric composition scheme which gives the extension a clear formal autonomy as well as allowing the proposal to preserve the identity of the villa itself. The new addition to the Bündner Kunstmuseum is conceived as a simple and compact volume that becomes perfectly integrated into its immediate surroundings. The clarity with which it states its independence with respect to the adjacent buildings also reinforces the importance given to the garden that appears in the newly extended area and confers a sober presence to the building. Client Surface Commission Status
Canton of Graubünden 4.000 m2 Competition, first prize On going
Proyectos en proceso
Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts Lausanne, Switzerland 2011 —
The project is based on two main ideas. The first is the definition of a new urban public space for the city. We believe that in contemporary cities the relationship between its buildings and its public space is of more importance than the buildings themselves. The second idea is to preserve an emotional and symbolic relationship with the history of the site. To do so we underline its main features and treat them as found objects. The MCBA building defines a boundary line, which we conceive as an inhabited wall that protects the longitudinal space of the public square from the universe of trains. Hence, MCBA becomes a monolithic building that serves as a neutral backdrop to urban life. Client Surface Commission Status
Private Residence Cretas, Spain 2014 -
Canton of Vaud 12.400 m2 Competition, first prize On going
Down from the main road, a path leads through the woods to an entrance pavilion. Once inside, a little Acropolis appears upon the top of a mountain ridge. A tender breeze blows, there is a feeling of intimacy and protection. Just a few simple volumes. In between, visible but distant, the rough landscape. A continuous plinth, elevated, is extending horizontally in between the trees on the sloping ground. Inside the pavilions, with reflections of water, of fire, the brightness of the sky, the hidden shadows. The light of the evening penetrates inside the high spaces, creating shelter. One can feel the fresh breeze passing through the patio. When night falls, downstairs and well-protected, we enter in the private spaces of the rooms. Client Solo Houses Surface 300 m2 Commission Private commission
Santa Clara Social Housing Úbeda, Spain 2004 -
The project is inserted into its context as a structure that complements the town’s own urban typologies. It strives to adopt the main features of both the Islamic and the Renaissance urban tissues which make up the city’s layout. It takes shape by articulating three different voids which originate as an extension of the patio-based urban structure that defines most historic Spanish cities. This generates a public square that is both permeable and introverted, in which rhythm is provided by the alternation of luminous central spaces and shaded lateral areas.
Client City of Úbeda Surface 3.000 m2 Commission Competition, first prize
Concursos Natural History Museum and State Archives Basel Basel, Switzerland 2015
Located within the Volta district, the new building for the Natural History Museum of Basel and the State Archives of Basel-Stadt is a new urban landmark and represents the opportunity to convert a cultural building into a meeting place. Three clear geometric structures identify the new building in the neighborhood and allow it to naturally integrate into its immediate urban environment: a longitudinal element exploits the maximum permitted height of 18m, redefining the limits of the path , creating a small public space in front of the museum; a vertical structure, with a total height of 40m, is perceived as a new monument within the city; and a wide entrance hall renews Vogesenplatz , the existing square in front of the building. Client Basel Stadt Surface 22.000 m2 Commission Competition, 5th prize
Office Building for the Deutsche Bundestag Berlin, Germany 2013
The proposal aims to complete the existing building, both its interior and its exterior, while also maintaining its character and identity. The design not only refurbishes, restores and adds new elements, it also finishes off the building, enabling its completion. The floor plans speak of the search for clarity throughout the scheme; the original internal logic of the building is recovered, organized around the two central patios. This is why the plan is completed with a new volume that manifests itself through the new façades towards Mittelstraße and Dorotheentrasse. These elevations express their belonging to the historic building’s extensions while they also acquire their own formal identity.
Client Federal Republic of Germany Surface 5.000 m2 Commission Competition, shortlisted
Cultural Center Stockholm, Sweden 2013
The project arises from its setting and from the need to define a new public space. The new building is placed to the West of the site in order to liberate the most public surface area possible, as well as for it to be seen and recognizable from a distance. The building’s polyedric and faceted volume is delineated by the boundaries of the plot, by the scale of the surrounding buildings and by the preservation of the area’s main axial views. Its setting also enables the conservation of both the area’s main features and the existing infrastructures. Along with the building itself, the other element that characterizes the square, to the East, is the existing stone.
Client Botkyrka Municipality Surface 2.300 m2 Commission Competition, shortlisted
Student Center London, U.K. 2012
The main goal of the proposal is to define, architecturally, the identity of the campus and fill it with meaning through a centre of gravity that allows the connection of all of its buildings. A central element placed within the square that the campus defines and shapes the new entrance, helps understand King’s College as a whole, bestowing the institution with the representative presence it needs.
Client King’s College London Surface 3.700 m2 Commission Competition, finalist
Concursos
Neanderthal Museum Piloña, Spain 2010
Like a fossil embedded in the valley, this seemingly primitive edifice, made up of a simple, compelling volume that emerges from its setting’s geometries, strives to establish, through its sculpted surfaces, a unique and a sensitive relationship with its surrounding environment. The reduced and minimalist nature of the building’s architecture is a direct response to the site; its simplicity and size highlight the beauty of the landscape. On the outside, the formal purity of the volume is altered by the texture of its sole material, turning an otherwise simple element into an object of great expressivity. On the inside, the building reflects the symbolic and material character of its exterior.
Client Principality of Asturias Surface 2.000 m2 Commission Competition, third prize
Bank’s Headquarters Rovereto, Italy 2010
The project aims to combine the symbolism that the new seat of the Cassa Rurale needs to embody with its insertion in the urban space following an attentive and respectful approach towards the Palazzo Balista. The proposal is to transform what is currently the back side of the building into the new main façade in order to reorganize the existing urban space. The design is based on an interpretation of the existing Palazzo, so it arises from the original building. Three new architectural features define it: a new contemporary gateway, which is inserted between the existing columns and points the way to a new entry space; a new green roof, as a recollection of the former courtyard’s identity, and a new urban garden, which is understood as an extension of the Palazzo Balista. Client ‘Cassa Rurale’ of Rovereto Surface 2.700 m2 Commission Competition
Art Center Gijón, Spain 2010
The new Museum of Gijón presents itself as an opportunity not only to renew and enhance part of the urban, social and cultural history of the city, but also as a catalyst capable of articulating its citizenry’s interests. Hence it is conceived as a living museum, deeply rooted in the conviction that public space should be its main component. The way it is clearly placed on the site, the gravity of its presence, the density of its materialization and the expressiveness with which it is shaped, all reflect the attributes of the site and of its setting. This not only establishes its clear presence as the container of the city’s artistic past, but also as the starting point for its future.
Client City of Gijón Surface 8.900 m2 Commission Competition
Library and Student Center Brescia. Italy 2009
The project, located facing the “Palazzo della Loggia” —a Renaissance building, is defined by a simple volume that completes the block it becomes part of. By finishing off this block and by mimicking its alter ego —the palace— the building strives to create a timeless bond with it. The project springs from the memory of the Capitol’s former rooms, of the old market’s vaulted spaces and of the ever-present Italian villas, attempting to influence the adjacent urban context through its spaces by defining a new area capable of hosting social activities.
Client City of Brescia Surface 1.000 m2 Commission Competition
Concursos
Private Residence Ordos, China 2008
The project attempts to translate the notion of essentiality and purity that the site offers. In sharp contrast with the rugged open landscape, both abstract and infinite, the house’s floor plan adheres to a pure form, a monolithic cube, which stands upon the land as if it were an archaic stone shaped by the forces of the wind. This clearly defined volume sensibly adapts to its surroundings through two features: a patio and a roof line. Put together, the entire architectural layout is extremely clear: a clean-cut exterior reveals the complexity of the visual and spatial relationships that take place inside of the house.
Client Surface Commission Status
Agrarian Studies Institute Siena, Italy 2008
J. Yang Water Engineering Ltd 1.000 m2 Private commission Under construction
In this privileged geographical context, the project aims to sensibly relate to its surroundings by inserting itself into the site in a simple but nevertheless forceful manner, in order to accommodate a complex program without seeming invasive. The result is a pure-shaped element, a horizontal contour that completes the valley and becomes the counterpart to its alter ego, the Basílica dell’Observanza.
Client Provincial Administration of Siena Surface 3.600 m2 Commission Competition, second prize
Music School
Karlsruhe, Germany 2007
The perimeter of the project runs along two large green areas that are interlinked by the castle. The design strategy of choice is to maintain the castle’s character without competing with its presence. In return, the notion of a garden is underlined and architecture is used as a tool to define a boundary, a perimeter, that constructs a void, turning the building into part of the sensory landscape. Hence, the building harmoniously becomes part of its setting. The surroundings are reflected on the building’s façade, in part because the building itself emerges from it. The visible result is an architecture of simplicity, of pure forms, that seeks to dissolve the limits between its interior and the exterior.
Client City of Karlsruhe Surface 2.400 m2 Commission Competition, third prize
Puez-Odle Visitor Center Funes, Italy 2005
The identity of a place is expressed by images, atmospheres and shapes that, once processed by memory, become its essential elements. The search for these features enables architecture to find its anchoring point and to blur the boundaries between building and place. This quest for the relationship between the building and its context, between artifice and nature, is essential for this project. The building advances towards its landscape, establishing an interrelation in which an abstract geometry of a higher order helps to modulate the three emerging elements, that in the shape of iconic and monolithic stones, comprise the project. These elements face the mountain, conversing with nature’s monumentality. Client Autonomous Province of Bolzano Surface 1.400 m2 Commission Competition, shortlisted
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