martedì 18 luglio 2017

THE GRADIENTOWER

THE GRADIENTOWER


Urban Reflection

The Shenzhen's municipality decide to implement a low-rise area with a new Masterplan of towers. This area is surrounded by mid-rise residential towers.
Within the Masterplan the eastern area is destined for office towers whereas the western one is for mixed use buildings.
The idea is to create a functional-stuck tower with houses on the lower part responding to the height of the surrounding buildings and on the higher offices according to the planned ones.

Since the modernist time the architectural market is asking for galzed towers all around the World, but this is not sustainable anymore so we decided to do not skip the market demand but to find a way to be vernacular and green.
To emphasize the quality of both spaces the glass of the building moves. It is sent back for the houses in order to create deep balconies all around the apartments that provide shades during the hot summer and a lovely outdoor space in the other periods of the year, a real extension of the indoor.

In the office part the glass is offsetted out in order to create a double-layered ventilated facade that provide a better thermal insulation. This also allows to have a better control of the quality of the light into the building.


Concept Diagrams
Pointing the sky

Silhouette

In to Out
Typical House Floorplan

Typical Office Floorplan

Concept Axo


Architect: ITA
Type: Competition 
Location: Shenzhen, China
Year: 2017 

mercoledì 8 marzo 2017

DOUBLE UP

DOUBLE UP

View from the plaza

The buildings of a university create a big courtyard around a square. The headmaster and the council want a new building that will contain new technologies.
The intention of the professors’ council is to make a new typology of school in which students are owner of their time and their project.
At the center of the courtyard there was an old warehouse, that will be removed to make space at the new building. To maximize the area of the plaza and to have a covered space the volume is lifted up in order to allow a total use of the plaza without obstacle in the middle.
The two bumps have two functions: first is to support the volume and second to create a 2.0 urban’s playground where people can stay and play. One bump is a green hill in which people can sit and enjoy the nature, the other one is a concrete pixelate hill that works like a urban auditorium for lectures or shows or like a “gym” for physical exercises.
The volume is articulated in two floors that contain free classrooms, conference rooms and one floor hosts a com­mon space in which the students can share their works with others and talking about their projects freely.
The building is characterized by a milky glass that filters the light during the day and diffuses the interior light in night in order to result like a giant lamp.
The configuration of the building, and the plaza also, re­flects the wills of the client and to make possible that stu­dents can to decide how and where to spend their time and energies
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Concept diagrams
Event Night

Green hill

Xmas time

Plan


Architect: ITA
Type: Competition 
Location: USA
Year: 2017 

giovedì 25 agosto 2016

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 

sabato 13 agosto 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 

venerdì 24 giugno 2016

CONTAINER-YARD

CONTAINER-YARD
From the sea
The nature of the place, the site is located closer to the harbor, is very industrial. To merge the project with this heritage and to respect the will of prefabricated houses that are made from containers.
The brick disposition allow to create a mixed use space between houses where people can enjoy the good weather, socialize and enjoy the view. 
On top there are gardens to redistribute the nature lifted from the ground.
At the ground level there are all the public functions and on the higher levels there are houses. Stairs and elevators are located in the corner in common between containers to allow to arrive in all the houses.
The ground is very permeable and that allows to access at the interior garden located in the middle of coutyard, so, a typical private space becomes pubblic.

Diagrams
Night view

From the street

Looking the courtyard
Plan
Section

Architect: ITA
Type: Proposal  
Location: Portland, Maine, USA


Year: 2016 

giovedì 16 giugno 2016

@ RESTAURANT

@ RESTAURANT
From the park
During the Design Week, Milan becomes the place to be for everyone who wants to express himself, or to look at new trends.
The client asks for an iconic structure that can express the ideology of his company, exalting the name of the company “@-RESTAURANT”.
The site is located inside a new park designed by Petra Blaisse in a very growing area. The new building needs a kitchen, a space for sitting (inside and outside) and enjoy the food and also a bar. The shape is defined on a “@ project” and thanks to a deformation (lifting up an edge) the volume is perfect to locate all the functions having higher ceiling for the living area and smaller for the kitchen and services. The of outdoor space also is designed to have the exterior sittings next to the entrance and to echo the @.
The shape allows to have a walkable staircase as rooftop in order to have a social space and a way to view the amazing 360 degree panorama on the top. The lifted @ shape allows furthermore to have a free place where people can stay, enjoy the park or to have a social moment with their friends. In order to respect the location, the natural context all the parts of the project are made in wood, this allows to have a very simple structure and to have lower costs. The inside space is caracterized by a turning structure around a line that create a suggestive volume and also a very large glass facade allows to have a wonderful view of the park and life inside it.

Concept diagrams
@ bar

Walking through the stair

Inside
Plan 0

South Elevation


Architect: ITA
Type: Proposal  
Location: Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Year: 2016