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After a neverending year of sketches, design, writings, phone calls, meetings, documents and contracts, next week studiometrico is going to go on site with its very first ‘built from scratch’ project. A 140 sqm private house will be located on a hilly terrain nearby Piacenza (70 km south of Milan) and inserted within a group of existing buildings and rural facilities. The house has been designed for a mature couple that loves nature, sustainable energy, wine and… bricks. The house should be completed before summer 2009 and the project should then continue with the realization of a new wine cellar. We are very happy to publish some images and drawings of this project.

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Few months after their move into their new home, Those Lazy Italians at Bastard, with the help and guidance of Marco Clozza (a.k.a. The Engineer), are eventually busy with the construction of the Bastard Bowl, their spectacular and hazardous ultimate recreative device. Daily updates of the construction works are available here.

See also previous posts about this project:

Refurbishing a Cinema theater in Milan

Refurbishing a Cinema theater in Milan | 2

Refurbishing a Cinema theater in Milan | 3

Casacomvert!

studiometrico has won BAM’s FIRST PRIZE ! BAM is an invited idea competition for the re-use of some abandoned historical centers on the Italian Adriatic Coast.  After some painful defeats, this is the first time for us to win an Architecture Competition! Next Sunday, the 27 of April, we will be awarded at the Architecture School of Ascoli Piceno.

The Bam Team:

Lorenzo Bini
Francesca Murialdo
Valentina Cocco
Erica Borsa

Other related posts: BAM | Idea competition

On the 3rd of April studiometrico submitted a design proposal for BAM, an invited idea competition for the re-use of three historical centers along the italian Adriatic Coast. Studiometrico was asked by the Architecture School of Ascoli Piceno, University of Camerino to produce an Architectural Manifesto describing how the half-abandoned town of Marano could be revitalised. In our proposal Marano is transformed into a 13 hectares Retail Park at exclusive use of the A14 highway that stretches along the Italian East Coast. The results of the competition should be made public before the end of April…

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Prof. Nicola Flora, who’s currently teaching in Ascoli Piceno (Italy), has invited few italian architects with different backgrounds (including Nicola Pagliara and Umberto Riva) to talk about a built residential project for private clients. On the 1st of April we are going to open progetto (in) materiale presenting to a group of architecture students our favourite (and very first) house: the one with ‘garden and caves’ that, although not completely finished, has been posted few times on our blog.

After a long trip from Bangalore, India to the North-East of Italy, the Lace Fence Pergola has reached its final destination! Designed by Joep Verhoeven from Demakersvan, is the very first lace fence that is 100% made in India. Few days ago the structure has been delivered and installed on the site it has been conceived for. The Pergola is now part of a 7.500 sqm terrain that studiometrico is transforming step by step into a very special landscape with many features to discover… See more pictures of the mountage of the Pergola here.

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