In the project for the new Italian Jewish and Shoah Musum we searched for an idea that would avoid the clashing between Jewish culture and the structure that was going to house the museum: an old Jail. We chose to build a Sukkah/hut at the entrance, where visitors will be welcomed into the Musum. Living in a hut means to remember the precariousness of the human condition, but staying in it should also be a pleasant experience, it should be a welcoming place. The roof of a Sukkah should cast shadows, it should let the rain pass through and it should not prevent people from seeing the stars over their heads at night. Whoever enters the Sukkah of the MEIS will gradually discover lights, colors, scents, sounds of the Jewish culture; he/she will learn the history and culture of Jewish people who have been living in Italy for more than two thousand years.

Awards:  -
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Location:  Ferrara (IT)
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Description: sustainable residential development for the eastern part
of Holma: 1000 Living Units; Parking; Social Center
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Client: MiBAC – Direzione Regionale per i Beni Culturali e Paesaggistici
dell’Emilia Romagna
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Role: design team member
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Budget: 30.000.000,00 €
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Surface: 8000 sq m
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Year: September 2010
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With: 3ti italia, Ferrini::Stella:;n!studio, Architettura&Restauro,
Stefano Piazzi, Luigi Tundo, Silvia Morselli, Loris Rossi, Gabriele Misso.
Collaborators: Maria Luigia Micalella, Giacomo Ortenzi.
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Related links: europaconcorsi
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The New Art Gallery projects Maribor towards its role as the 2012 European Capital of Culture by creating a sustainable and open institution, a driving force of knowledge and creativity diffusion.

The main aim was to collect, preserve, represent, interpret, research, document and protect Slovene movable cultural heritage in the field of visual arts form the beginning of the 20th century until today and educate the wider public about contemporary visual art.

In order to preserve the past while giving it a new meaning and quality, views of the ancient medieval city walls have been enhanced form different floors of the Art gallery. Moreover the south facing façade of the main building has been designed using a pattern and a material that recall traditional terra-cotta roof tiling, while still guaranteeing an optimal thermal performance and a modern, mutating and captivating appearance.

Great importance has been paid towards the creation of new public and green areas. The open spaces originate from the dense network of functions of the New UGM and converge into wider public spaces.

The relation with water is strongly expressed through both, formal and visual connections: sight seeing points overlooking the Drava river form the gallery spaces and the shape of the building itself which seams to be generated by ideally extending the water surface into the building and then projecting and mirroring it into the sky.

Awards:   3rd Prize – Young Italian Architects 2010
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Location:  Maribor (Slovenia)
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Description: visual arts museum
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Client: City of Maribor
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Role: design team leader
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Budget: – €
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Surface: 15.000 sq m
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Year: March 2010
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With: Loris Rossi, Gabriele Misso, Lamberto Nicoletti.
Collaborators: Maria Luigia Micalella, Serena Carovillano.
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Featured in: L’Arca” 12/2010, n° 264, p. 8.
Catalogue “Materiali Progettati – speciale mostra ventisette trentasette –
rassegna internazionale di giovani architetti italiani”, by Nicoletta Mairo,
Tre P ceramiche edizioni, 2010.
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Related links: europaconcorsi; newitalianblood
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The Eropan 9 – Geneva project purpose was to establish a deep relation between nature and housing.

In order to do so we chose to emphasize the contact with the natural elements (water and vegetation) and to use it as a connection between the new and the existing constructions.

The mediocre quality area object of the competition is still strongly characterized by an important presence of natural elements such as rivers and green shores. This has created an hybrid/transitional space where residences, offices, industries and nature have been randomly mixed.

Since the intention was to maintain a multifunctional use of the area, a harmonic distribution of the required urban functions (residential, commercial, cultural, tertiary) was planned, while emphasizing the creation of a valuable natural environment. The main strategy was aimed at creating a high quality urbanity that may become a positive reference for the city itself, while meeting the city’s need for high density housing complexes.

The residential buildings rise from a green slab that protects the residences from traffic, pollution and noise thanks to the fact that the slab is set 4 meters above the street level.

Awards:   3rd Prize – Young Italian Architects 2010
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Location:  Geneva (Switzerland)
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Description: park;  housing; artist studios; cultural centre
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Client: Jurg Capol / Karl Steiner
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Role: design team leader
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Budget: step 1 -1.500.000 € / step 2 – 37.000 €
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Surface: step 1 / 18.300 m2 , step 2 / 18.500 m2
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Year: June 2007
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With: Loris Rossi, Gabriele Misso, Ivan Tabbo, Carola Vannini.
Collaborators: Lamberto Nicoletti, Francesca Sergenti,
Stylianos Rousakis, Cristina Lopera.
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Related links: europaconcorsi
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The Auditorium project illustrated in the charts and in the technical report is based on two peculiar aspects of the Isernia territory and in the ancient urban shape of the city.
It is common knowledge that in the pre-roman phase the original settlement was based on the primary need for a control over the entire territory with a set of megalithic defence stations. As a result the new buildings of the project appear as merged volumes that in the substance recall the megalithic form of the urban protecting wall of the city. The tendency to look back at the past becomes the foundation element of the evolving civilization and it becomes concrete with the enhancement of the visual relationship that is no longer accidental.
The large glazing façade system marks the end of the exhibition path that ends with a glance towards the Palaeolithic museum, symbolizing the beginning of the territory’s history. The glazed façade that leads to the Auditorium entrance represents a filter between the “inside” space and the “outside” space. The central axis along which the project evolves is at the same time a barrier line and a unifying force that connects all the functions and the services that the Auditorium houses.

Awards:   Fourth Prize Winner
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Location:  Isernia (Molise – IT)
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Description: Auditorium, Exhibition, Restaurant, Offices, Info Point,
Laboratories, Shopping Mall, Internet Point
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Client: Municipality of Isernia
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Role: design team member
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Budget: – €
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Surface: 3.000 sq m
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Year: December 2005
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With: Francesco Valente, Luigi Valente, Laura Pedata, Gabriele Misso,
Lamberto Nicoletti, Ivan Tabbo, Ascanio Perugini, Carola Vannini.
Consultants: Ivan Tabbo, Lamberto Nicoletti.
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Related links: europaconcorsi
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