Portfolio 2023 architecture

gabriele bracchi

selected projects

Daziran office building _ GanZhou _ CHN _ 2022

QianHai office tower _ Shenzhen _ CHN _ 2022

Mixed use development project _ GanZhou _ CHN _ 2022

Pharmaceutical industrial Park - Yantian _ Shenzhen _ CHN _ 2022

Residential development _ Yulin _ CHN _ 2022

Blockchain industrial park_ Ganzhou _ CHN _ 2022

Mixed use project _ GanZhou _ CHN _ 2022

Banling industrial park _ GanZhou _ CHN _ 2022

Office tower and kindergarten _ Huizhou _ CHN _ 2012

Guangming mixed use development_ Shenzhen _ CHN _ 2022

Trade zone custom building _ GanZhou _ CHN _ 2022

Haikou mixed use development _ Haikou _ CHN _ 2021

Shantou residential compound _ Shantou _ CHN _ 2021

HuangPu Middle School Expansion _ Shenzhen _ CHN _ 2020

Shenzhen Bao’an Archives _ Shenzhen _ CHN _ 2020

Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Service Center _ Shenzhen _ CHN _ 2020

Cultural Palace _ Shenzhen _ CHN _ 2020

Office Tower _ Shenzhen _ CHN _ 2020

PengRui Kindergarden_ Shenzhen _ CHN _ 2019

Commercial - Mixed use project _ Yibing _ CHN _ 2019

Police Office _ Shenzhen _ CHN _ 2019

Cultura and art center _ Zhengzhou _ CHN _ 2019

Turistic development _ Zhuai _ CHN _ 2019

Private English School _ Chengdu _ CHN _ 2018

Office Building Fit/Out _ Chengdu _ CHN _ 2017

Office Building Fit/Out _ Beijing _ CHN _ 2016

International competition Quartiere intergenerazionale _ Coldrerio _ CH _ 2016

Multifunctional Complex _ Shanghai _ CHN_ 2016

Runway showroom _ Ho Chi Minh City _ VN _ 2015

International competition Cascina Merlata _ Milan _ MI _ 2015

Xiang River Tower _ Changsha _ CHN_ 2015

Douglas House _ London _ UK _ 2014

Infographic _ Domus Magazine _ 2012

Environmentalriqualification masterplan _ Rigassificatore di Brindisi _ Brindisi _ BR _ 2009

Sarpi Project, masterplan _ Milan _ MI _ 2009

Office building refurbishment _ Milan _ MI _ 2009

160 residences in restoring building _ Milan _ MI _ 2008

concept design graphic design masterplan ...building

DAZIRAN OFFICE BUILDING

2022, Ganzhou [CHN] _ on going

In collaboration with YiChuang program:

facade renovation of an existing office building

This project is the result of a direct commission. My involvment is related to the design phase, proposing the client the selected idea and working directly on the model and supervising the rendering team. At the moment we are doing the technical drawings and I am involved as direct supervisor of this phase.

QIANHAI OFFICE TOWER

2022, Shenzhen [CHN] _ competition

In collaboration with YiChuang

program: office tower and commercial podium

1 commercial podium analysis

2 volume analysis

3

main perspective view

4 perspective view from the park

This project is the result of an international competition . The irregular form of the land plot is one of the main limit and direction of the project, as per the connection with the underground passing directly below the pot. My involvment is related to the design phase, managing the design team and supervising the rendering team.

MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT

2022, Ganzhou [CHN] _ on going

In collaboration with YiChuang program:

masterplan for a mixed use development: offices, school, residential, commercial and office villas

This project is the result of a restricted competition. My involvment is related to the design phase, sketching different masterplan proposals and working directly on part the model and supervising the rendering team. At the moment the project is in standby waiting to initiate the technical drawings phase.

PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIAL PARK

2022, Shenzhen [CHN] _ competiton_ waiting for results

In collaboration with YiChuang

program: masterplan for an industrial park with fatory buildings, offices, commercial and dormitory

This project is the result of a competition that we are still waiting for results. My involvment is related to the dseign phase, sketching different masterplan and facade proposals and working directly on part the model (the office tower), upervising the rendering team, the presentation book execution and attending ad introducing our proposal during the final presentation meeting with the client.

BLOCK CHAIN INDUSTRIAL PARK 1st draft

2022, Ganzhou [CHN]

In collaboration with YiChuang program: industrial park with offices, commercial and dormitories

This project is the result of a restricted competition. My involvment is related to the design phase, sketching different masterplan proposals and working directly on part the model and supervising the rendering team. At the moment the project is finalizing the construction drawings phase.

BLOCK CHAIN INDUSTRIAL PARK 3rd draft

2022, Ganzhou [CHN]

In collaboration with YiChuang program: industrial park with offices, commercial and dormitories

The project went trough different phases and versions along 4 months work.

MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT

2022, Ganzhou [CHN] _ restricted competition _ 1st prize

In collaboration with YiChuang

program: industrial park with offices, commercial and dormitories

This project is the result of a restricted competition. It is an industrial campus including office buildings with facilities, a puvlic park connected to the lakes and some commercial areas. My involvment is related to the design phase, sketching different masterplan proposals and supervising the model and the rendering team. After the competition the client choosed to relocate the project to another site so a new project is at a development stage at the moment.

OFFICE TOWER AND KINDERGARTEN

2022, Huizhou [CHN]

_ construction on going

In collaboration with YiChuang

program: office tower + hotel and kindergarten

This project is the result of a direct commission. It is an office tower with the upper floors dedicated to hotel. The lower part on the east of the site is the kindergarten. I directly followed this project from the design phase, the first meetings with the client, the realization of the model and the supervision of technical drawings and renderings.

GUANGMING MIXED USE DEVELOPEMENT

2022, Shenzhen [CHN] _ competition _ 1st prize _ construction on going

In collaboration with YiChuang program: industrial park with offices, commercial and residential buildings

This project is the result of an open competition. It is a typical chinese mixed use development project with a shopping center in the podium and residential and office tower on top of it. My involvment is mainly related to the design phase, as a main designer, leading the team to the successfull completation of the competition.

entrance of the commercial podium

HAIKOU MIXED USE DEVELOPEMENT

2022, Haikou [CHN] _ competition

In collaboration with YiChuang program: office buildings, commercial buildings and hotel tower

This project is the result of an open competition. It is a mixed use commercial project with the combination of shopping spaces along the main strees and small office building in the inside, generating a variety in scale and functions. My involvment is related to the design phase, as a main designer, leading the team to the successfull completation of the competition.

SHANTOU RESIDENTIAL COMPOUND

2022, Shantou [CHN] _ competition

In collaboration with YiChuang program: residential towers, commercial strip and kindergarten

This project is the result of an open competition. It is a typical chinese residential development project with a commercial strip on the south (with possibility to convert the shops into single family villas in the future) facing the lake and a kindergarten in the north of the site. My involvment is related to the design phase, as a main designer, leading the team to the successfull completation of the competition.

2020, Shenzhen [CHN] _ on going

In collaboration with Cube Station / competition 1st prize 1st

program:

expansion of an existing middle school in Futian

This project is the result of a competition. We win the first prize and the developing phase is on going at the moment. The project is the expansion and connection to an old and not anymore reponding to the school needs. The main carachteristic of the new campus is the integration between fidderent spaces for the students allowing them to have proper spaces for individual study, group works and big meetings. All these moments respond to the growth and the development of young students and all these moments have been incorporated in the design of the school.

2020, Shenzhen [CHN]

In collaboration with Cube Station / competition 2nd prize 2nd

program:

archive center / offices / public facilities

data sheet

plot area:

built volume:

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The project site is located at the north side of the intersection of Xin'an First Road and Fanshen Boulevard, Bao'an District, Shenzhen, close to the Bao'an Central District and Qianhai Cooperation Zone, close to the main axis of Baoan District and on the green axis of the Qianhai landscape. The perfect geographical position along the city axis allow the building to become the new icon of this area. Without a doubt, a building of this size affects the community next to it. Unlike the general urban archives, the Baoan Archives is located the densely populated residential areas of the city. As ’the good neighbour' therefore, its design encourages active interaction and those values which make a neighbourhood enjoyable. In addition to satisfying its own basic functions, the archives acts as the hub of this area, integrating broken urban resources and creating high-quality public spaces.

The long and narrow land choosen as a competition site is both a restriction and an opportunity. It provides sufficient public interface facing the city and has the opportunity to create a rich urban public space, which is connected with the water corridor to form a whole urban park. So we decided to develop a 3d park digging holes at the ground floor giving direct connection to the B1 floor. This solutions is also adopted to obtain climate advantages for the underground areas. The spaces at this level are constantly in the shadow, giving the interior spaces a cooler temperature.

This situation is increased by the use of the vegetation creating underground gardens that bring in this way not only climatic advantages but also psycological ones.

SHENZHEN-HONG KONG SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION SERVICE CENTER

2020, Shenzhen [CHN]

In collaboration with Cube Station / selected for the second phase selected for the second

program:

Office tower / Commercial podium / Cultural and Exhibition center

Futian District's urban central axis from north to south is connected in series with nodes of vital importance (civic center, exhibition center ...) from north to south. The project site is just at the end of this axis. It is located in the core of the bonded area and forms a coninuous space together with the park on the east side of the site. We propose to develop our project and the future city starting from the landscape, easing the tension between the expansion of high-density cities and limited natural resources, shaping an urban space with regional characteristics integrating the landscape of urban elements such as offices, exhibition spaces, commercial areas, public transportation infrastructure, parks, etc. in a single building. The park is the "LAND" and the building is our "MARK". The park extends vertically into a large green roof, fully integrating the building and landscape. As a result, the new entrance door of the area is jointly constructed by the two. A new LANDMARK.

CULTURAL PALACE

2020, Shenzhen, Luohu [CHN]

In collaboration with Cube Station program:

The project started focusing on the concept of memory. The memory of a place that always survive to time and changes. The memory here, for us, was embodied by the “palace” and the lake. And for that reason we decided to preserve them and build around them the new project. The palace as a new modern center, axis pointing on the palace from different directions to highlight its centrality. Around it a new park cover the building and allow the people to experiment the area in different ways and through different levels, at different heights. To complete the project, the requalification of the Buji river, a new attractive pole in the area, where people will go to have a walk, to enjoy the free time, to relax, to have a ride with their bike, to meet their friends. A piece of Shenzhen, giving back to shenzhener.

OFFICE TOWER - 16 in 1

2019, Shenzhen, Nanshan [CHN]

In collaboration with Cube Station / competition 2nd prize competition 2nd program: office building

The project is located in the strategic emerging industry headquarters of Xili Liuxiandong, Nanshan District, Shenzhen. The program includes the main office tower and a complementary building with shops and open spaces for the community. It also includes a bus stop at ground level and underground park.

The project develops through a spiral space and endless green vine to connect the 16 vertical companies. Trying to create a climbing forest that integrates work, life and nature experiences. A vertically interconnected community where multiple businesses converge and are connected to the city.

KINDERGARDEN

2019, Shenzhen, YanTian [CHN]

In collaboration with Cube Station

program: kindergarden

The project is the integration of a wider residential development plot. Like mahjong or domino tiles the building show itself from the top. A combination of spaces and discovery from the ground floor to the roof. The classroom boxes are lifted from the floor and clearly identified from the outside also using a different material from the office and service buildings. The cuts between the different blocks let the air flow inside breaking the massive volume of the building. The color as leading element of the project. On the ceiling at the ground floor higlights the square / playground where the kids can start their trip inside the kindergarden. Big colofrul letters stimulate the sense of connection between the kids and their classrooms. Graphic elements on the walls and on the ceiling make the environment mor fun and easily recognizable.

The main entrance lead you inside the school. On the right the big square / playground on the left the entrance leading to the office. The kindergarden atmosphere start here to unveil itself with colorful graphic elements on the floor and on the glass surfaces..

CULTURAL AND ART TOURISM BLOCK OF CBD CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT

2019, Yibin [CHN]

In collaboration with Cube Station / selected for the second phase selected for the second program:

What kind of business do we want to build?

How to form a unique experience and present the project as a new a city card?

These are the questions we started from. Trying to create a different experience in a mixed use program including retail (for the biggest part), cultural and residential. Connecting the three block in a continuous flow from the city environment to the river wher a panoramic round is waiting for me integrated with the park and the riverscape.

2019, Shenzhen [CHN]

In collaboration with Cube Station

program: office building and jail

The project is located in the center of the region. The building in the future will serve as the core hub of the entire region, in connection with the surrounding government agencies to achieve overall linkage and efficient operation.

The east-west direction of the site is relatively flat, and the north-south height difference is large. The internal height difference is about 5m, and the northwest sides are close to the mountain. Intensive land use, control of land occupation, compact layout and development of the open spaces in the park are the key point of this police campus, including a jail building.

TURISTICDEVELOPMENT

2019, Zhuhai area [CHN]

In collaboration with Atelier Global

program: residential villas and hotel

data sheet

plot area: built area: built volume:

budget: confidential

125.000 m²

In the recent years, domestic travel spending has been increased due to the rise in the standard of living. Accordingly, travellers’ demands have been stimulated, as part of the strategic development, Guangdong-HK-Macao greater bay area has been the center of transport infrastructure development, such as transcontinental railway, cross-sea bridge and public road system. The island we worked on is located at the southern part of the greater bay area,and it will be anideal place fortravelling and other various activities. The projects, articulated in different temporal phases is composed by detached villas and an hotel complex. The villas are divided in three different typologies, according to their position on the island. The villas are arranged following the descending landscape and have all undisrupted view towards the pacific ocean. All the villas have private swimming pool and garden. The hotel insteadisamassive16.000sqmlocatedontopofthehill,dominatingthe bay and formed from different blocks weaving each other.

Silnce in the wood Villa scheme

Silnce in the wood Villa view

SHIYANENGLISHSCHOOL

2018, Chengdu [CHN]

program: Private english school

First of a series of english school for a private client the project is based on colors trying to help and integrate a funny approach to the learning of english. Three classroom, a multi functional room, an office teacher and a toilet complete the plan.

OFFICEBUILDINGFIT/OUT

2017, Chengdu [CHN]

program: private company office design

datasheet

plotarea:

builtarea: 1.300m²

builtvolume:

budget:confidential

The office project is still on going, it is in is technical drawing fee and it has been approvedbythe client. It developsona surface ofaround1300sqm and it’s completed with working area, material area, training and conference room for 100 people, asmall meeting room,the CEO office,a cafè area and a small gym for yoga.

program:

refurbishment of an office building for a private company

datasheet

plotarea: builtarea: 6.000m²

builtvolume:

budget:

The company wanted its office to reflect its image of a young and dynamic team, and therefore favored the creation of many places of exchangeandassembly.Wewantedtohighlighttheprofessionalism,the willingness, the wise advice and the great sympathy of the project managers who are carrying out this project.

Our involvement entailed taking a floor-by-floor approach to the Project, adapting each one to the department it was to house, as the finishings are tailored to the department in question. Our benchmark was comprised of the highest office standards.

QUARTIEREINTERGENERAZIONALE

2016, Coldrerio [CH]

program:

architectural competition for an intergenerational neighbourhood

datasheet

plotarea: 16.000m²

builtarea: 2.300m²

builtvolume:

budget:750.000euro

L’idea alla base del progetto prevede una forte rete di connessioni esterne ed interne, che accompagna le persone all’interno dell’area di progetto. La costruzione di un asse centrale identificato dalla casa per anziani e dalle abitazioni a misura di anziano e del suo perpendicolare, inserendoil polivalentetralascuolaelementareelascuolaperl’infanzia, crea delle visuali che rimandano allo spazio verde centrale, filo conduttore del progetto.

Quest’approccio ci ha permesso di realizzare strade carrabili sul perimetroesterno,delimitatedaedificicheproteggonoilcuoreverdedel progetto, ove si avrà una mobilità prevalentemente ciclo/pedonale. Abbiamo considerato il verde come una potenzialità per assolvere alla richiesta di uno spazio intergenerazionale accogliendo al suo interno aree ludiche e di socializzazione protette che uniscono tutti gli edifici presenti.

Grazie al disegno del parco è stato possibile evidenziare l’accesso principale ai vari volumi che costituiscono il masterplan e quelli secondari, comunque fruibili da tutte le utenze. Gli accessi sono stati posizionati pensando alle diverse altimetrie del terreno, limitando lo sbancamento nella parte a verde, mantenendo l’attuale conformazione del terreno e collegando i percorsi esterni con quelli interni. Leunitàabitativeamisuradianzianosonopartedell’impiantograzie alla rotazione in pianta dell’edificio, e rivolgono l’ingresso verso l’asse centrale e l’atrio della casa per anziani, integrandosi nello spazio centrale.

LINEE GUIDA

3 7.300m

2016, Shanghai [CHN]

In collaboration with RRC Studio Architetti

program:

urban complex development: retail, offices, hospitality, residential

data sheet

plot area: built area: 240.000 m²

built volume:

budget: confidential

The project consist on the realization of 240.000 sqm of residential, retail and hospitality structures with special attention to the laisure activities located inthe basement. The multifunctional complex is locatedin oneof the most vivid areas in Shanghai with grat commercial activities and shoppingmalls,aprivate and exclusiveresidential area and apedestrian distric with offices and entertainment places. To keep a strong connection with the street and the neighbourhood the project is strongly defined by an horizontal volume containing commercial and recreative activities, among them a movie theatre, exhibition halls, a public theatre and a covered open plaza with restaurants and coffee shops. The transparent base is a connection between the three towers, granting a easy to find main entrance. The three towers, that are different for lenght and height, contain different functions and are characterized at the top floor with special services as a Spa-Terrace for the residential units, a panoramic view point for the offices and a swimming pool for the hotel.

The environmental sustainability is a key aspect of the project, energy and water are managed in a very efficent way. For example glasses and curtainwall allow to reduce the need of artificial lights. Natural ventilation will be another important issue to achieve in this project.

RUNWAY SHOWROOM

2016, Ho Chi Minh City [VN]

In collaboration with cls architetti

program:

showroom design and furniture design

datasheet

plotarea:

builtplot: 500m²

builtvolume:

Ibudget:confidential

Runway è un concept store Fashion e Life Style, è il multibrand leader in Vietnam.

Il Rex Hotel, costruito 1927 al tempo del colonialismo francese, divenuto famoso durante la guerra del Vietnam per essere la sede del comando americano e di molti corrispondenti di guerra, è la sede dell’intervento. L’intervento segue glia ltri negozzi Runway realizzati per Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.Il nuovo store Runway è una sorta di casa nella casa, usando contrasti per creare spazi differenti all’interno di altri spazi. Una sequenza di stanze, definita da archi ornamentali, pannelli decorativi in gesso sulle pareti e sui soffitti con diversi temi basati sulla tradizione vietnamita. Il progetto evoca l’incontro tra due mondi, uno di rigore architettonico e geometrico, l’altro che riprende la cultura vietnamita con le sue influenze francesi. I bianchi spazi sono interrotti da una rigorosa struttura metallica che crea nuovi spazi e volumi interni all’edificio esistente. Una serie di pali e ripiani in ottone lucido definiscono lo spazio. Strutturaripresaed inseritaanche apavimento, in cementolucido(per la parte nuova) che va a dialogare con i pavimenti esistenti in legno.

Il concept è basato su due presupposti che dialogano tra loro: all’interno la griglia è nuova e moderna, all’esterno le decorazioni richiamano temi tradizionali e locali.

CASCINAMERLATA

2015, Milano

In collaboration with Arcoengineering srl

program:

architectural competition for residential buildings plus services

datasheet plotarea: 15.592m²

builtsurface: 30.972m²

builtvolume: 102.750m³

budget:55.750.000euro

Per una buona architettura (almeno secondo noi)

1) Siamo critici verso l’architettura verticale, massiccia, compatta, monolitica e predeterminata. Siamo convinti che una serie di spazi in sequenza che progressivamente solidificandosi sfumano nel paesaggio aprendosi verso il parco meglio si abbinino al contesto circostante. Nuovi percorsi ciclopedonali semi urbani si articolano all’interno del lotto a differenti quote diventando al tempo stesso spazio comune destinato ai residenti e percorso di distribuzione nelle unità abitative.

2) Siamo a favore dello spazio pubblico come luogo di relazione (gli spazi pubblici come aree di scambio, sia fisico che simbolico, tra il nuovo insediamento e la comunità che lo abiterà). La progettazione degli spazi aperti garantisce continuità paesaggistica, in modo da graduare i diversi livellidiappartenenzaalluogo- dalpubblicoalprivatoeviceversa-senza mai creare delle vere e proprie barriere.

3) Difendiamo e promuoviamo gli “spazi di vicinato”: spazi verdi, spazi ludici, spazi di attività per gli adulti, permeabilità pedonale agli edifici e percorsi pedonali sono progettati affinché si moltiplichino le possibilità d’incontro e di relazione all’interno dell’intervento.

4) Proponiamo l’inserimento di funzioni integrative all’abitare aperte anche al vicinato: un locale polifunzionale che funga da luogo di incontro e per trascorrere il tempo libero; una serie di servizi collaborativi che incentivino l’incontro tra gli abitanti tramite il lavoro condiviso per prendersi cura degli spazi comuni (Fai da Te); una palestra, un luogo abituale per allenarsi in tranquillità, evitando spostamenti e traffico, ottimizzando il tempo a disposizione e aumentando le possibilità di socializzazione; servizi complementari quali depositi condivisi, lavanderia, aree di co-working, bar/caffetteria e una serra idroponica.

5)Condividiamocon gli EtruschiediRomanilamagliaquadrata. Amiamo la griglia da 4x4 metri, l’elemento generatore del progetto. Ambienti interni, vani scala/ascensori, aree di ingresso e terrazze si sviluppano a partire da questo modulo. Le innumerevoli possibilità aggregative permettono di rispondere con semplicità e rapidità alle richieste delle diverse tipologie di alloggio diversificando tra loro tagli di metratura simile.

6) Crediamo nella flessibilità come valore aggiunto: l’aggiornamento tecnologico dell’edificio nel corso del tempo, poter intervenire sugli impianti agevolmente e tempestivamente, anche per le manutenzioni ordinarie; l’ottimizzazione strutturale al fine di ridurre i vincoli distributivi; la possibilitàdisperimentareneglispaziinternie neiservizi. Vival’adattabilità degli spazi.

7) Siamo convinti che tutti gli alloggi debbano avere la possibilità di espansione verso l’esterno attraverso terrazze verdi o giardini orizzontali e verticali. Le terrazze su diversi livelli e i giardini al piano terra possono essere utilizzati e sfruttati in vari modi (piccoli orti, spazi di relax, giardini d’inverno o serre).

8) Vogliamo fortemente che gli ingressi di ogni singola scala diventino il luogo in cui ci si può fermare a chiacchierare, dove è possibile avere una bacheca, dove i bambini possono lasciare degli oggetti, vogliamo un luogo vivace e non solo di transito.

9) Promuoviamo caldamente un sistema costruttivo a supporto della flessibilità: la scelta dei materialie delle tecnologie da adottare tiene conto di alcuni parametri fondamentali: costi, facilità di applicazione, prestazione, manutenzione, gradevolezza e resistenza “sociale” del manufatto.

10)Confidiamo nel fatto che minimizzareiconsumi energeticidell’edificio, producendo un ambiente costruito di qualità, accogliente e gestito in modo efficace e con costi contenuti sia la base per ogni buon progetto.

XIANGRIVERTOWER

2015, Changsha [CHN]

In collaboration with RRC Studio Architetti

program:

urban complex development: retail, hospitality, offices

data sheet

plot area: built area: 60.000 m²

built volume:

budget: 72.000.000 euro

Xiang River Tower is a kind of mixed-use project, integrating offices, residential units, hotel and commercial spaces. The project is in Changsha, Hunan. The building will be developed along the Xiang river, in an area closed to the city center with the possibility to become a new landmark for the city and an elegant presence in the city skyline.

The idea of the project is simple: just adding different boxes one on top of the other containing different part of the program. Luxury residences are in the upper half part while the lower part is left for the hotel and the offices.

On top floors we will find also recreative areas and services for the residences, among them a Spa, a swimming pool, a belvedere pavillion. The lower floors will contain different recreational spaces creating an internal extension of the public square and a big public park. The atrium, the main entrance, the heart of the project became the main distribution point of the whole building creating a relational and social space for the different users and visitors of the building.

DOUGLASHOUSE

2014, Londra [UK]

In collaboration with Marco Politi architetto

program:

conversion of an office building into a residential luxury building

datasheet

plotarea: 350m²

builtarea: 2.450m²

builtvolume: 6.750m³

budget:4.500.000pounds

DouglasHouseisarefurbishmentprojectandhasbeenbuiltandfurnished for individuals and families. The environment is at once elegant and homely, affording residents an outstanding level of luxury and satisfying their craving for indulgence. Chic, progressive tasteful and refined, douglas House is everything the educated twenty-first century culture leader would expect from a home in the heart of one of the world’s most historic capital cities.

General

Underfloor heating to principle rooms / Stoneware tiles to the living rooms / Hardwood oak flooring to the bedrooms / Recessed ceiling lighting to all roomsplusadditionalsuspendedlightingand walllighting/TVpointstoall living rooms and some bedrooms / Timber doors with chrome handles / Externalceramictilesandfloorlighttobalconies/Timberdeckingandfloor lights to terraces (Loft 9&10) / Air conditioning to all apartments

Bathroom

Caesar ceramic tiles / Duravit sanitaryware / Graff shower set and taps in chrome

Kitchen

HighqualityItaliankitchensinwhitegloss/Rangeofappliancestoinclude; multifunctional oven, microwave oven, hob, dishwasher and integrated fridge freezer / Granite - Carrara marble worktops

Communal Areas

5 person lift / Allocated underground parking to each apartment / Key fob andaudiovideoentrysystemfromthemainandsecondaryentrance/Car park entrance operated by fob system

INFOGRAFICADOMUS 2012,

Milano

program: infographic design

datasheet plotarea: builtarea

builtvolume:

budget:

We live in an increasingly complex, but invisible, world in which this same complexity needs to be displayed for being understood. The information design so as an additional level of depth of contents.

Contributions offered regularly in the international journal of architecture and design Domus.

PROGETTO DI MITIGAZIONE AMBIENTALE RIGASSIFICATORE DI BRINDISI

2009, Brindisi [Italia]

In collaboration with Scandurrastudio _ concept and preliminary project

Nei pressi dell’ex petrolchimico e dell’ex Montecatini. Recupero di una porzione di paesaggio costiero abbandonato e mitigazione visivo/ambientale di serbatoi esistenti.

Il progetto prende avvio dall’analisi del contesto e dall’individuazione di punti focali, le matrici del progetto paesaggistico, centri nevralgici del nuovo parco.

SARPIPROJECT:MASTERPLAN

2009, Milano [MI]

incollaborationwithRRCSTUDIO

program masterplan_mixeduse

residential/offices/publicservices/culturalactivities/ sportpark/greenareas/carparkings

datasheet

plotarea:110.000m² builtarea:83.000m²

totalvolume:257.000m³

'Sarpi Project' è una proposta che nasce dallo studio del quartiere Sarpi-Canonica, denominato Chinatown, incentrata sulle caratteristiche tradizionalmente commerciali dell'area e sulle possibili variazioni correttive (architettoniche e non) dell'intero comparto. La zona, oggi fortemente degradata in particolare a causa del commercio all'ingrosso, è una reale occasione per questo territorio della città di poter rigenerarsi, attraversoun ridisegnodialcuni isolati cheoffrano spazidariconsegnare alla collettività. Il Masterplan comprende 5 aree d'intervento, per un'area complessiva da riqualificare di 110.000m², interessando le aree dismesse e il tessuto esistente e denso. La proposta progettuale coinvolge in particoalre l’area ex Enel, l‘area del Cimitero Monumentale, l’area Montello, l‘area Pasubio-Crispi.

RIQUALIFICAZIONEDIEDIFICIOAUFFICI

2010, Milano

In collaboration with RRC studio architetti

program:

office building refurbishment

datasheet

plotarea: 950m²

builtarea: 1.250m²

builtvolume: 3.750m3

budget:

The project area is located in Milan, in a central area, near Porta Genova railway station. The site was characterized by the presence of a great number of industries that have been disused and replaced by space for servicesandresidences.Ithasbeenalreadytenyearsfromthestartofthe transformation of the area, called “Zona Tortona”, led by many events link to fashion and design.

The interventionconsistsin the conservationandrequalificationofdifferent parts of the existing building.

Theprojectchangetheoriginal buildinginthe3dimensions:length,height and depth.

In the plan a new surface is added on the short edge, designed to accommodate all the services (stairs, elevator, bath, terraces) and on the other part all the partitions are demolished leaving an open space in each level.

The facades present a game of full andempty, highlighted by the contrast ofthematerial andthe colours. The idea isto give shape toanew building with a strong character, that could become a point of reference for all the area.

The dialogue between architecture and advanced technologies was essential to give the project a high level of sustainability Through compact design, the consequent little dispersion and the use of natural ventilation for the thermohygrometric comfort, the building reaches quickly a good energy efficiency and represent a good example of sustainable architecture for its energetic qualities and for the benefit offered to its users.

160 RESIDENCES IN RESTORING BUILDING

2009, Milan [Italy]

In collaboration with Scandurrastudio _ concept e preliminary project Restricted competition _ FIRST PRIZE _ completed

program: residential building refurbishment

datasheet plotarea: 2.400m²

builtarea: 20.000m²

builtvolume: 60.000m3

budget:25.000.000

The intervention focuses on the visibility of businesses on the ground floor and the habitability of the apartments equipped with terraces and balconies. These private outdoor spaces completely redesign the shape of buildings, defining the quality and livability of the town. Each apartment will be equippedwithnewopenspaces, understood asthe availability of balconies andterraces,whichdo notcorrespond toawasteofurbanareaandarecoveredbyonlyahighqualityarchitectural and commercial opportunities.

The existing structure of the building allows you to work expanding theexistingwallopeningsandthusincreasetherelationshipbetween the interior space of housing and the outer space of terraces and balconies. The ability to relate with the outside improves the quality of all the internal pieces of home.