ASTERISK

ASTERISK

Entrance

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. 

Diagrams

Night view

Exterior

From the galleries

Axo

Plan

Architect: ITA
Type: Competition 
Location: Arbedo-Castione, Switzerland

Year: 2016 

THE EYE

THE EYE

Sunny morning

The building is located in a strategic location. All the surrounding buildings basicaly have a coutyard 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 new courtyard building is designed shifting 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 the volume, this one can receive sunlight, otherwise hidden from the building in front of it.
In this way a typical self-referential architecture scheme starts to talk with the context offering its most important character to the citizens.
The shape of the volume allows to limitate the structural needs because the 4 layers of glass (inner and outer) contribute in the static of the building. 

Diagrams

Axonometric

In the rain

Back

Winter view

Plan 0

Architect: ITA
Type: Competition 
Location: San Paolo, Brazil

Year: 2016