profile
The work of
the office is mainly concerned with the project of contemporary city.
The investigation on the form of the city and an understanding of
architecture as a tool to critically address the relations between
society and physical space characterize the office design research
The point of view is that architectural practice should turn its
attention from the design of autonomous objects to an expanded
operating field, working on relations among multiple levels of spatial
organization, (architectural definition of collective space, settlement
criteria, infrastructure framework, ground morphological structure,
open space network) concurrently dealing with diverse dimensional
scales, contrasting the traditional scaling down approach (from the
general to the particular).
This has been the main interest
of a continuous design research, began in the 1994, and
particularly tied to the following topics:
1. the design investigation on the spatial structure of contemporary
city based on the preponderant role of the open space and its
morphological characters. The open space physical structure as a mean
to work with difference and to set new relations among the
heterogeneous "materials" of the city as well as among its parts
(Pianscairolo, Liubijana, Rovereto, Dajeong, Macopenspace)
2. the design of the residential habitat as an opportunity to
investigate and express the collective dimension of the city. Degrees
of transition between private and public, individual and collective,
open to the view and secluded, are the focus of our attention in the
housing project. (Rovinij, Grenoble, Izola,)
3. the design of large scale scenarios as a challenge to enunciate a
spatial concept that orient the construction process of the city
in time, according to a recognisable form that is able of dealing with
a multitude of programs. A scenario is the outcome of a grammar
based on the articulation of elemental architectural devices and their
relations to specific conditions such as infrastructure network, urban
density, ground surface, pre-existing imprints (Sejong, Milano, Pian
Scairolo, Geneve)