GALLERIA CUSANI

Project for an art gallery Via Cusani, Milan

The limit is the primary act of evading the hostile nature of a portion of space, which is promoted to a higher cultural dimension by its becoming autonomous and responding to internal rules.

This building is intended to give back to the citizen an intimate and sheltered place, a place to stop and contemplate in the daily chaos of the city centre.

The architecture fits into the context as a massive, strongly material presence, interrupted only by two cuts that let the various blocks housing the different exhibition spaces to maintain volumetric independence in their development in height. The hard core of the building marks the outer perimeter, determines a character of closure towards the city, which dissolves completely inside where the gallery space contaminates the public space of the courtyard.

The central, full-height entrance body provides access to the museum paths of the permanent the temporary exhibition, which unfold in the arms of the building and converge on the ground floor in the bookshop and cafeteria area.

Project for an architecture in Portofino Natural Park, Italy

On the ridge line, at the last edge of the forest where the descent of the rock towards the sea begins, the architecture wants to be a sentinel guardian of that landmark portion of the territory.It is a wayfarer‘s house, an architecture at the disposal of the visitor walking along these paths.

An entrance body, low and in close contact with the rock, accompanies the visitor to enter.

The main body develops vertically and maintains a closure with respect to the context, interrupted only on particular views of the surrounding landscape.

The design idea is that of an inhabited wall that keeps circulation and service spaces, while the inhabited rooms occupy the entire floor area.

Staggered ceilings at different heights define a series of spaces that look into one another following an increasing degree of privacy.Punctually the wall opens onto the surrounding landscape in unprecedented views, different floor by floor and directed according to the use of the room.

To the traveller who finds this shelter, the landscape reveals itself and shows itself through architecture.