Luca Marending - Early Works

luca MARENDING

WORKS after graduation

Mar2013Site engineering Renovation Casa Marending, Morbio inferiore CH

Oct2013-May2014 "Supercinema 70" Project (design stage) Office and luxury apartment building, Carpi IT

The design stage of this renovation took almost one year to be concluded by the achitect and after my graduation I had the chance to be involved in the direction of the building site and, after a brief period, become independent.

The renovation of this XVII century house has been thought and executed trying to keep all the parts of the house that could still evoke the former spirit and be compliant with today's needs.

Everthing that has been substituted aim to create a new entity with a clear contemporary character while keeping respectfully a relation with the old parts.

House Marending RENOVATION

Ground floor

First floor

Ground floor

Section AA - longitudinal section Section BB - cross section

North elevation

West elevation

South elevation

East elevation

Oct 2012 - south side

Mar 2014- south side

Roof under construction - Nov2013

Roof construction details

Stair with recovered steps

Part of the old structure kept

The complexity and uniqueness of this project con be taken as a conditio sine qua non of the site. The city centre of Carpi is articulated around the Piazza dei Martiri built in front of the medieval Castello dei Pio and surrounded by a portico and the cathedral.

Behind the castle the former cinema Supercinema 70, strongly damaged by the 2012 earthquake, is the only place with no specific function near this important piazza.

In these conditions within four floors of 1250 sqm each we had to dwell luxury apartment with private car parks and offices. To face the programmatic density avoiding a contact between the parts, we created a third place within the plan.

This place is a spine that contains all the vertical connections of the two functions: pipes, structural loads, cores, air and light.

The apartment occupy the highest floors and work as plugs structurally independent, the offices are in the first floor, while the ground dwells the halls, the plant room and the car park.

Every plug/apartment has a courtyard that supplies privat green space and light.

Since they are independent, they can be all different. This starting point allowed an excursion on the courtyard, that exists as a reinterpretation in every apartment.

Supercinema 70 DESIGN STAGE

8 PLUG-IN APARTMENTS - 270 sqm

OFFICES - 1'250 sqm

ATRIA + CAR PARK- 900 sqm

Ground floor - ATRIA

First floor - OFFICES

Cross section

North-east side - EXISTING

South-east side - EXISTING

North-east side - PROPOSAL

South-east side - PROPOSAL

Internal render and access points

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